Re-imagining Development Communication in Africa

Re-imagining Development Communication in Africa is organized into three sections or parts, the first focusing on the past and the history of development communication scholarship; the second analyzes theoretical issues, and finally a third section that looks at country cases. The first part provides several perspectives on the historical development of the field as it pertains to Africa. Some of these look at ideological, indigenous contributions, and the particular importance of gender issues. The second section provides a critique of development communication theory and provides a more cultural appropriate alternative. Additionally, the book applies existing theory to practice in African communities. This leads to the third section of the book which focuses on development communication in some country cases such as in Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria, and Rwanda.

Chuka Onwumechili is professor of communications and is serving as interim dean for the School of Communications at Howard University in Washington, D.C. He also served as vice president at Digital Bridge Institute (DBI) in Nigeria where part of his charge was to help develop the labor market in telecommunication services. Ikechukwu Ndolo is professor at the University of Nigeria in Nsukka, Nigeria and currently heads the Department of Mass Communication. He is also an experienced scholar in the area of development communication and has consulted for both the British Department for International Development (DFID) and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Nigeria.