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The Social Construction of Africa & Africans In Western Mass Media: Reality or Myth?

By*Abdoulaye Saine, Editorial Adviser

 

ABSTRACT 

Comprehension of the social construction of Africa and Africans in Western mass media as “The Dark Continent” must begin at the philosophical, scientific and literary traditions that spawned them in nineteenth and twentieth century Europe and America.  In them we find a power-driven epistemology created for a specific purpose to serve specific hegemonic political and economic agendas

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posted on Thursday, February 15, 2007 9:15 PM by egsankara

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