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Prisoners of Freedom

Human Rights and the African Poor

By: Harri Englund

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Human Rights and the African Poor

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Univ of California Press

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0520249240

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Human Rights and African Airwaves

Mediating Equality on the Chichewa Radio

By: Harri Englund

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Mediating Equality on the Chichewa Radio

By: Harri Englund

Human Rights and African Airwaves focuses on Nkhani Zam'maboma, a popular Chichewa news bulletin broadcast on Malawi's public radio. The program often takes authorities to task and questions much of the human rights rhetoric that comes from international organizations. Highlighting obligation and mutual dependence, the program expresses, in popular idioms and local narrative forms, grievances and injustices that are closest to Malawi's impoverished public. Harri Englund reveals broadcasters' everyday struggles with state-sponsored biases and a listening public with strong views and a critical ear. This fresh look at African-language media shows how Africans effectively confront inequality, exploitation, and poverty.

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Indiana University Press

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0253223474

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Gogo Breeze

Zambia’s Radio Elder and the Voices of Free Speech

By: Harri Englund

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Gogo Breeze

Zambia’s Radio Elder and the Voices of Free Speech

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Being Gogo Breeze -- Mass-mediated elderhood -- The grandfather's voices -- Obligations on and off air -- On air: beyond charity -- Off air: private service -- Women and children -- Between feminisms and paternalisms -- Children's voices -- Coda -- Radio obligations -- Appendix A: confronting mill owners -- Appendix B: helping Miriam Nkhoma

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University of Chicago Press

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022649893X

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Prisoners of Freedom

Human Rights and the African Poor

By: Harri Englund

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Human Rights and the African Poor

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In this vivid ethnography, Harri Englund investigates how ideas of freedom impede struggles against poverty and injustice in emerging democracies. Reaching beyond a narrow focus on the national elite, Prisoners of Freedom shows how foreign aid and human rights activism hamper the pursuit of democratic citizenship in Africa. The book explores how activists’ aspirations of self-improvement, pursued under harsh economic conditions, find in the human rights discourse a new means to distinguish oneself from the poor masses. Among expatriates, the emphasis on abstract human rights avoids confrontations with the political and business elites. Drawing on long-term research among the Malawian poor, Englund brings to life the personal circumstances of Malawian human rights activists, their expatriate benefactors, and the urban and rural poor as he develops a fresh perspective on freedom—one that recognizes the significance of debt, obligation, and civil virtues.

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0520940091

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Visions for Racial Equality

David Clement Scott and the Struggle for Justice in Nineteenth-Century Malawi

By: Harri Englund

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David Clement Scott and the Struggle for Justice in Nineteenth-Century Malawi

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Focusing on David Clement Scott, the head of the Church of Scotland mission in Malawi, this innovative book narrates the rise and demise of a unique vision for racial equality in nineteenth-century Africa, offering rich insights into diverse approaches to the missionary vocation.

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Cambridge University Press

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100908481X

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9781009084819

Visions for Racial Equality

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A rich and innovative look at the rise and demise of a unique vision for racial equality in nineteenth-century Africa.

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1316514005

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Gogo Breeze

Zambia’s Radio Elder and the Voices of Free Speech

By: Harri Englund

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Gogo Breeze

Zambia’s Radio Elder and the Voices of Free Speech

By: Harri Englund

When Breeze FM, a radio station in the provincial Zambian town of Chipata, hired an elderly retired schoolteacher in 2003, no one anticipated the skyrocketing success that would follow. A self-styled grandfather on air, Gogo Breeze seeks intimacy over the airwaves and dispenses advice on a wide variety of grievances and transgressions. Multiple voices are broadcast and juxtaposed through call-ins and dialogue, but free speech finds its ally in the radio elder who, by allowing people to be heard and supporting their claims, reminds authorities of their obligations toward the disaffected. Harri Englund provides a masterfully detailed study of this popular radio personality that addresses broad questions of free speech in Zambia and beyond. By drawing on ethnographic insights into political communication, Englund presents multivocal morality as an alternative to dominant Euro-American perspectives, displacing the simplistic notion of voice as individual personal property—an idea common in both policy and activist rhetoric. Instead, Englund focuses on the creativity and polyphony of Zambian radio while raising important questions about hierarchy, elderhood, and ethics in the public sphere. A lively, engaging portrait of an extraordinary personality, Gogo Breeze will interest Africanists, scholars of radio and mass media, and anyone interested in the history and future of free speech.

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University of Chicago Press

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022649909X

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Human Rights and African Airwaves

Mediating Equality on the Chichewa Radio

By: Harri Englund

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Mediating Equality on the Chichewa Radio

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