This handbook attempts to fill the gap in empirical scholarship of media and communication
research in Africa from an Africanist perspective. The collection draws on expert knowledge of
key media and communication scholars in Africa and the diaspora offering a counter-narrative
to existing Western and Eurocentric discourses of knowledge-production. As the decolonial turn
takes centre stage across Africa this collection further rethinks media and communication
research in a post-colonial setting and provides empirical evidence as to why some of the
methods conceptualised in Europe will not work in Africa. The result is a thorough appraisal of
the current threats challenges and opportunities facing the discipline on the continent.
