Language: English / Place: Africa - Michigan Digital Library Portal

Description:: This paper uses the Marxist postulatethat it is those segments of society which monopolize the production of knowledge and information which determine the general ideas and opinions that pervade society to analyse media coverage of Africa from the early days of explorers to the present time. It links the most salient images evoked by the mass media with the prevailing socioeconomic and political climates that have given impetus to current processes of ideological reproduction. Comparison of early reportage of Africa by European explorers and journalists (e.g. Stanley, Lugard) with contemporary media coverage of the continent reveals a persistent reference to Africans as barbaric, noble savages, communists and terrorists. Such references (images) have powerful ideological implications for the maintenance of the hegemony of a particular socioeconomic system over others. Just as they justified slavery and colonialism in the last century, such images now justify imperialism and military adventurism in Africa.
Date Issued:: 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:: Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:: Africa Media Review

Description:: In their studies on relative clauses (RCs), Keenan andComrie (1977) and Downing (1977,1978) identify certain syntactic features which they consider to be universal features of relative clause structures. However, Downing (1978:375) cautions that his implicational universal "may be considered hypotheses to be tested against additional data of relative clause structure." This paper primarily examines the syntactic features of RCs in Ewe, but in doing so provides additional data against which some of the universal features claimed for RCs are tested. Overall, the universals tested in this study have been supported by the data from Ewe.
Date Issued:: 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:: Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:: Research Review (New Series)

Description:: Review of: Samuel Agyei Mensah and John B. Casterline (eds.). Reproduction and social context in sub-Saharan Africa. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003
Date Issued:: 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:: Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:: Research Review (New Series)