Author of article

In Jo Ellen Fair’s Francophonie and the National Airwaves, A History of Television in Senegal, she discusses how the content of television and the spread of it in Africa can be correlated to media imperialism. She states however, that media imperialism is too simple of an association to make and that it is necessary to go more in depth and analyze televisions’ political and cultural history  in Africa. 

 

   While reading this article I wanted to know more about the author, I did some research and found that most of her research has examined U.S. media images of conflicts in Africa. SHe explores how race shaped the telling of African catastrophes and conflicts.  http://www.journalism.wisc.edu/users/jefair 

Africa

Also while reading I learned that there has been a lot of study of the African culture, traditions, and the ways in which they have been transformed through the interaction with foreign cultures. (Planet TV, 204) However, the study of media and its influence in Africa has not been explored in great detail. Considering how over the past thirty years, television shows, cartoons, images, and magazines have become a more popular medium for Africa, there is more of a reason to explore this.