African Radio and Minority Languages

This book investigates how radio broadcasting across Africa provides a platform for the cultural participation and the representation of minority language speakers in a contested public sphere. This ambitious and broad-ranging study will be an essential read for scholars and students of media studies and sociolinguistics in Africa.

Limukani Mathe (PhD) is a Research Fellow and Lecturer at North-West University in South Africa. Prior to that he was a Lecturer and Research Fellow at the University of Johannesburg and a Guest Lecturer at the University of Fort Hare. His research interests are in media representation with a particular focus on digital culture, journalism practices and indigenous text in the Global South. Mathe has edited books, contributed book chapters and also published in high-impact journals. His recent edited book, Reconceptualising Multilingualism on African Radio: Language and Identity reflects on the evolving identities and lingua in Africa and radio as a mirror of such realities.

1. African Radio and Minority Languages: An Introduction 2. The Political Economy of African Radio: Historical Foundations 3. Minority Language(s) Accommodation on Public and Commercial Radio: Limits and Prospects 4. Community Radio and Linguistic Patterns of Marginalisation 5. Rethinking Radio's Ethnolinguistic Public Sphere: A Conclusion