Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-5447f9dfdb-tm5m8 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-07-31T03:40:43.747Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

3 - Habitus in the Postcolony

from Part I - Making Journalists

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 November 2024

J. Siguru Wahutu
Affiliation:
Yale University, Connecticut
Get access

Summary

Focusing on journalists’ training between 1960 and 2015, this chapter captures the enduring strength of colonial logic effectuated through nonjournalistic actors, such as the education field. It shows how curricula focused on Western canonical thought reinforce a sense of liminality in a field already perceived as out of touch. It discusses the role of journalism education in inculcating specific normative assumptions about how the fields should work on the continent. It argues that journalism education now, just as at the dawn of independence, is such that the profession is heavily moored on Western understandings of journalistic doxa.

Information

Type
Chapter
Information
In the Shadow of the Global North
Journalism in Postcolonial Africa
, pp. 48 - 72
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Book purchase

Temporarily unavailable

Accessibility standard: Unknown

Accessibility compliance for the PDF of this book is currently unknown and may be updated in the future.

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

  • Habitus in the Postcolony
  • J. Siguru Wahutu, Yale University, Connecticut
  • Book: In the Shadow of the Global North
  • Online publication: 13 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009431941.005
Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

  • Habitus in the Postcolony
  • J. Siguru Wahutu, Yale University, Connecticut
  • Book: In the Shadow of the Global North
  • Online publication: 13 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009431941.005
Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

  • Habitus in the Postcolony
  • J. Siguru Wahutu, Yale University, Connecticut
  • Book: In the Shadow of the Global North
  • Online publication: 13 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009431941.005
Available formats
×