Africa's Media Image Book

Pt. I	The Media Debate
1	Introduction: Metaphors of African Coverage	3
2	American Media and African Culture	15
3	Committed in Africa: Reflections of a Correspondent	26
4	African Censorship and American Correspondents	38
Pt. II	Patterns in African Coverage
5	The Media and Mau Mau: Kenyan Nationalism and Colonial Propaganda	51
6	Dateline Algeria: U.S. Press Coverage of the Algerian War of Independence 1954-1962	62
7	Tribes and Prejudice: Coverage of the Nigerian Civil War	77
8	Reporting African Violence: Can America's Media Forget the Cold War?	94
9	Are We Really the World? Coverage of U.S. Food Aid in Africa, 1980-1989	109
10	African-American Press Coverage of Africa	121
11	New York Times Coverage of Africa, 1976-1990	133
Pt. III	The Southern African Story
12	Inkatha: Notions of the "Primitive" and "Tribal" in Reporting on South Africa	149
13	Beyond Black and White: An Overview of Nonracialism and the Image of Racial Polarization in South Africa	162
14	Television News from the Frontline States	176
15	Savimbi's Image in the U.S. Media: A Case Study in Propaganda	194
16	The South African Story: A Correspondent's View	206
Pt. IV	Changing African Coverage
17	Dateline Africa: Journalists Assess Africa Coverage	223
18	Changing Policy: An Editorial Agenda	237
19	South Africa Now: The Challenge of the South African Story	242
	Selected Bibliography	257
	Index	261
	About the Contributors	265