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(Mis)reporting the Zim Elections
Foreign and South African media are going for dramatic value in the Zimbabwean elections at the expense of context
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Succession Games
There is a growing tendency in the news media to write on President Mbeki’s successor. This is little more than idle speculation.
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Mbeki’s Media Smarts
Professor Tawana Kupe nominates President Mbeki for "communicator of the year" for 2004. It may be a controversial accolade, but the president does know how to outsmart us.
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Nothing African About It
We may have made some major advances since the colonial era, but is their really anything "African" about the continent’s media? Professor Tawana Kupe is sceptical, claiming that the modern media is an effect of the colonial intrusion into Africa.
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Flip-Flop Journalism
American commercial media has a lot in common with state-controlled media in undemocratic states, argues Professor Tawana Kupe.
