Africa Is a Country

Shameless Self Promotion

Africa Is a Country Podcast
African Five-a-Side Podcast

Shameless Self Promotion

By
Sean Jacobs


Since Herman is too modest, I’ll do it: A new book he edited on media politics in Africa, and to which I contributed a chapter, just came out from Routledge in London. Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa has contributions from some of the continent’s best media scholars (and I am smart not to include myself among that set). The book “… asks critical questions about the potential of popular media to contribute to democratic culture, provide sites of resistance, or, conversely, act as agents for the spread of Americanized entertainment culture.” It is part of a book series on “Internationalizing Media Studies” edited by UK media academic Daya Thussu for Routledge.

Buy it here.

Further Reading

Whose game is remembered?

The Women’s Africa Cup of Nations opens in Morocco amid growing calls to preserve the stories, players, and legacy of the women who built the game—before they’re lost to erasure and algorithm alike.

Sovereignty or supremacy?

As far-right politics gain traction across the globe, some South Africans are embracing Trumpism not out of policy conviction but out of a deeper, more troubling identification.

From Cape To Cairo

When two Africans—one from the south, the other from the north—set out to cross the continent, they raised the question: how easy is it for an African to move in their own land?

The road to Rafah

The ‘Sumud’ convoy from Tunis to Gaza is reviving the radical promise of pan-African solidarity and reclaiming an anticolonial tactic lost to history.

Sinners and ancestors

Ryan Coogler’s latest film is more than a vampire fable—it’s a bridge between Black American history and African audiences hungry for connection, investment, and storytelling rooted in shared struggle.