Winston Mano
Biographic Data
| ID | 195771 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Winston Mano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Winston |
| FAMILY NAME | Mano |
| SIGNATURE | MANO W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Westminster |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6958-3716 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Technological affordances, low-power AI, and climate justice among the Ogiek in Kenya’s Mau forest
In regions with unreliable electricity and limited Internet access, low- power AI tools offer scalable solutions for low-bandwidth environments. In Kenya’s Mau Forest, AI-generated SMS messages on low-power feature phones offer possibilities for advancing climate justice for Ogiek Indigenous people. Through interviews, focus group discussions, and direct observation, the study examined how low-power AI SMS systems can be integrated with Indigenou…
African Media and Communication: Foundational Conversations
This book provides an important set of critical reflections from a selection of foundational scholars of African media and communication studies through biographical method. The book interrogates the center of mainstream academic scholarship by providing the foundational history and origins of an Africanist conceptual model while highlighting its significance globally. The editors use biographical and life story interviews to critically review th…
Digital Technologies and Revolution in Africa: Complexities, Ambivalences, and Contextual Realities
Introductory statement The rise of digital technologies has brought about significant changes in revolutionary projects across Africa. The impact of these technologies on social movements and activism is complex and multi-faceted. This panel examines the role of technology in shaping African revolutionary projects, such as the use of social media platforms for mobilisation and coordination, and the challenges around issues like manipulation and e…
Young African diaspora: Global African narratives, media consumption and identity formation
This study focused on identity formation and media consumption among first-generation young Africans in the diaspora. It investigated what it means to be African and the impact of multiple identities and forms of belonging within diasporic communities. Emphasis was on how they experience the diaspora as liminal spaces and subsequently negotiate relationships with other Africans in indeterminate diasporic spaces to construct, redefine, negotiate a…
Afrokology and the Right to Communicate in Africa
This article argues for a reconstruction of communication rights theories from an African episteme and experience. It reviews the impact of key national, continental and international legal instruments as they pertain to communication rights in Africa, with a specific focus on South Africa and Zimbabwe. Using an Afrokological heuristic tool, it critically evaluates how the key legal instruments underpinning the right to communicate are developed …
Media Ownership in Africa in the Digital Age: Challenges, Continuity and Change
Geopolitics of China's Rising Media and Soft Power in Africa: Eating and Being Eaten
China is part of a group of countries rapidly projecting their geopolitical power in an expanded engagement with Africa. The extent to which this is imperialism is debatable among Africans, with some arguing that China is actually Africa's best ally when it comes to trade and development. Using Zimbabwe as a case study of local responses to China's expansionist geopolitics, the article contributes to debates on international development based new…
Decoloniality and the push for African media and communication studies
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of the book. The book introduces possibilities opened up by Fanon and Ngugi’s writings for historicising African media and communication studies. Chasi similarly responds to the call to carve out space for African theories for the discipline. Chasi asks if strategic communication can be separated from violence and warfare, and draws implications utiliz…
Afrokology of media and communication studies
This chapter constitutes a quarrel from the margins, an explication of Afrokology and an introduction to its counter-hegemonic heuristic approach in media and communication studies. It goes beyond critiques of the marginality of African approaches in media and communication studies to position Afrokology as a decolonial heuristic tool that is collaborative, convivial and transdisciplinary in its conversation with other forms of knowledge. The cha…
Routledge Handbook of African Media and Communication
Social Media and Elections in Africa, Volume 1: Theoretical Perspectives and Election Campaigns
Civil society coalitions as pathways to PSB reform in Southern Africa
Democracy requires open public service broadcasting (PSB) institutions that constantly interact with active informed citizens. This article posits that a more proactive network of civil society across Southern Africa can produce an impact on PSB institutions in these countries enhancing reform and accountability to the public. We enter this topic by identifying pathways towards increased cooperation among public service broadcasters, civil societ…
Routledge Handbook of African Media and Communication Studies
Media and communication are integral to politics, culture, economies, societies and everyday life. The teaching and research of media and communication involves making sense of the ways in which we communicate as well as accounting for the impact of media and technology on society. It entails investigating how people, communities and institutions influence the media and how media and communication technologies themselves shape social relations. A…
International Media Development: Historical Perspectives and New Frontiers
Actors shape their communicative environment to suit their needs and the needs of their fellow citizens. Yet, in spite of the innovations and agency found on the continent, African media remains strongly influenced by colonial legacies ranging from colonial media infrastructure and operational logic. What’s more, models of journalism, especially those from Britain, Germany and France, are taught and practiced in independent African countries; mea…
Citizen Journalism and the Ebola Outbreak in Africa
This chapter analyses responses to news coverage of the 2014 Ebola virus by African media, a subject that has so far not been adequately discussed. It examines cases from “citizen media responses” in Zimbabwe and South Africa to determine the uniqueness of the African response to an African crisis. It investigates the attitudes and interpretations that were put forward by digital news media and responses from the news users. Our analysis of the n…
Everyday Media Culture in Africa: Audiences and Users
SCOPUS: ch.b
Towards alternative media as critical media in Africa
Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa: Mediating Conflict in the Twenty-First Century
In today's Africa racism and ethnicity have been implicated in serious conflicts - from Egypt to Mali to South Africa - that have cost lives and undermined efforts to achieve national cohesion and meaningful development. Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa sets about rethinking the role of media and communication in perpetuating, reinforcing and reining in racism, absolute ethnicity and other discriminations across Africa. It goes beyond th…
Racism, ethnicity and the media in Africa: Mediating Conflict in the Twenty-First Century
In today's Africa racism and ethnicity have been implicated in serious conflicts - from Egypt to Mali to South Africa - that have cost lives and undermined efforts to achieve national cohesion and meaningful development. Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa sets about rethinking the role of media and communication in perpetuating, reinforcing and reining in racism, absolute ethnicity and other discriminations across Africa. It goes beyond th…
Stuart Hall’s question for Media Studies in Africa
Media and the War on Terror in Africa
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Zimbabwe's New Diaspora: Displacement and the Cultural Politics of Survival
Obituary: Louise Manon Bourgault
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Africa: Media Systems
This entry concentrates on media systems in countries of Sub‐Saharan Africa. The Sub‐Saharan media system was born in the colonial era. Following the partition of Africa in Berlin in 1884, the colonial era saw the establishment of mass media systems that initially served minority white settlers located in the emerging urban centers. Both early print and broadcasting frameworks were affected by the different policies and approaches of the colonial…
Thank God it is Friday’: Responses to music scheduling on Radio Zimbabwe
Music is the main diet of the most popular radio programmes in Africa and yet there are hardly any studies that examine either the ways in which it is programmed on radio, or circumstances under which it is consumed by Africans. This paper critically discusses this nexus by closely examining how a leading Zimbabwean radio station organises its music output to coincide with the daily life of members of its Zimbabwean listening public. Radio Zimbab…
Everyday Media Culture in Africa: Audiences and Users
SCOPUS: ch.b
Popular Music as Journalism in Zimbabwe
The paper argues that popular music can act as a variety of journalism at certain historic moments and in specific contexts. Where mass media are weak and opposition political parties are frail, music can serve as the voice of the voiceless by offering subtle avenues of expression. Popular music can perform the journalistic function of communicating daily issues in ways that challenge the powerful and give a voice to the disadvantaged. Popular mu…
Emerging communities, emerging media: The case of a Zimbabwean nurse in the British Big Brother show
Research on media and diasporic communities has often either focused on representations of ethnic minorities in mainstream media or looked at use of media by diasporic communities. By exclusively focusing on media coverage, the first approach has denied agency to how those represented in mainstream media interpret, accept or challenge representation of themselves. The second approach constructs its object of study as diasporic media and hereby ne…
Routledge Handbook of African Media and Communication Studies
Media and communication are integral to politics, culture, economies, societies and everyday life. The teaching and research of media and communication involves making sense of the ways in which we communicate as well as accounting for the impact of media and technology on society. It entails investigating how people, communities and institutions influence the media and how media and communication technologies themselves shape social relations. A…
Renegotiating Tradition on Radio Zimbabwe
The article focuses on the renegotiation of the Shona past within public service broadcasting as epitomized by Chakafukidza Dzimba Matenga, a popular prime-time talk programme offered by the national languages channel, Radio Zimbabwe. The analysis shows how Shona traditional communicative structures and figures of traditional authority are reconfigured in the context of adult talk-radio intended for male and female listeners located in both tradi…
African Media and Communication: Foundational Conversations
This book provides an important set of critical reflections from a selection of foundational scholars of African media and communication studies through biographical method. The book interrogates the center of mainstream academic scholarship by providing the foundational history and origins of an Africanist conceptual model while highlighting its significance globally. The editors use biographical and life story interviews to critically review th…
International Media Development: Historical Perspectives and New Frontiers
Actors shape their communicative environment to suit their needs and the needs of their fellow citizens. Yet, in spite of the innovations and agency found on the continent, African media remains strongly influenced by colonial legacies ranging from colonial media infrastructure and operational logic. What’s more, models of journalism, especially those from Britain, Germany and France, are taught and practiced in independent African countries; mea…
The Media and Politics in Zimbabwe: Turning Left while Indicating Right
This commentary debates the disjuncture between Mugabe's and the Zimbabwe African Union (ZANU) Patriotic Front's (PF) Marxist ideology and actual policies with regard to public service media. The first part examines the implications of referring to ruling party officials as “Comrades” in public news media, even though ZANU has been openly implementing Western-backed market reforms since 1991. The contradictions surrounding the use of “Comrade” in…
Renegotiating Tradition on Radio Zimbabwe
The article focuses on the renegotiation of the Shona past within public service broadcasting as epitomized by Chakafukidza Dzimba Matenga, a popular prime-time talk programme offered by the national languages channel, Radio Zimbabwe. The analysis shows how Shona traditional communicative structures and figures of traditional authority are reconfigured in the context of adult talk-radio intended for male and female listeners located in both tradi…
Exploring the African view of the global
Scheduling for rural and urban listeners on bilingual Radio Zimbabwe
This article explores the ways in which Radio Zimbabwe (RZ) programme schedules reflect and affect Zimbabwean rural and urban daily life. Daily and weekly linkages between national radio programme schedules and national everyday life were analysed. I argue that RZ was popular because its schedules appropriately approximated the habits of Zimbabwean national everyday life. It is the broadcasters' duty to reach audiences with relevant content at co…
Contextualising journalism education and training in Southern Africa
In this article it is argued that journalism education in Southern Africa must \ncontend with defining a new academic identity for itself, extricating itself from \ndependency on Western oriented models of journalism education and training, \nas this has been a perennial challenge in most of Africa
Popular Music as Journalism in Zimbabwe
The paper argues that popular music can act as a variety of journalism at certain historic moments and in specific contexts. Where mass media are weak and opposition political parties are frail, music can serve as the voice of the voiceless by offering subtle avenues of expression. Popular music can perform the journalistic function of communicating daily issues in ways that challenge the powerful and give a voice to the disadvantaged. Popular mu…
The Media and Politics in Zimbabwe: Turning Left while Indicating Right
This commentary debates the disjuncture between Mugabe's and the Zimbabwe African Union (ZANU) Patriotic Front's (PF) Marxist ideology and actual policies with regard to public service media. The first part examines the implications of referring to ruling party officials as “Comrades” in public news media, even though ZANU has been openly implementing Western-backed market reforms since 1991. The contradictions surrounding the use of “Comrade” in…
Emerging communities, emerging media: The case of a Zimbabwean nurse in the British Big Brother show
Research on media and diasporic communities has often either focused on representations of ethnic minorities in mainstream media or looked at use of media by diasporic communities. By exclusively focusing on media coverage, the first approach has denied agency to how those represented in mainstream media interpret, accept or challenge representation of themselves. The second approach constructs its object of study as diasporic media and hereby ne…
Thank God it is Friday’: Responses to music scheduling on Radio Zimbabwe
Music is the main diet of the most popular radio programmes in Africa and yet there are hardly any studies that examine either the ways in which it is programmed on radio, or circumstances under which it is consumed by Africans. This paper critically discusses this nexus by closely examining how a leading Zimbabwean radio station organises its music output to coincide with the daily life of members of its Zimbabwean listening public. Radio Zimbab…
Zimbabwe's New Diaspora: Displacement and the Cultural Politics of Survival
Obituary: Louise Manon Bourgault
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Africa: Media Systems
This entry concentrates on media systems in countries of Sub‐Saharan Africa. The Sub‐Saharan media system was born in the colonial era. Following the partition of Africa in Berlin in 1884, the colonial era saw the establishment of mass media systems that initially served minority white settlers located in the emerging urban centers. Both early print and broadcasting frameworks were affected by the different policies and approaches of the colonial…
Media and the War on Terror in Africa
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Stuart Hall’s question for Media Studies in Africa
Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa: Mediating Conflict in the Twenty-First Century
In today's Africa racism and ethnicity have been implicated in serious conflicts - from Egypt to Mali to South Africa - that have cost lives and undermined efforts to achieve national cohesion and meaningful development. Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa sets about rethinking the role of media and communication in perpetuating, reinforcing and reining in racism, absolute ethnicity and other discriminations across Africa. It goes beyond th…
Racism, ethnicity and the media in Africa: Mediating Conflict in the Twenty-First Century
In today's Africa racism and ethnicity have been implicated in serious conflicts - from Egypt to Mali to South Africa - that have cost lives and undermined efforts to achieve national cohesion and meaningful development. Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa sets about rethinking the role of media and communication in perpetuating, reinforcing and reining in racism, absolute ethnicity and other discriminations across Africa. It goes beyond th…
Citizen Journalism and the Ebola Outbreak in Africa
This chapter analyses responses to news coverage of the 2014 Ebola virus by African media, a subject that has so far not been adequately discussed. It examines cases from “citizen media responses” in Zimbabwe and South Africa to determine the uniqueness of the African response to an African crisis. It investigates the attitudes and interpretations that were put forward by digital news media and responses from the news users. Our analysis of the n…
Everyday Media Culture in Africa: Audiences and Users
SCOPUS: ch.b
Towards alternative media as critical media in Africa
International Media Development: Historical Perspectives and New Frontiers
Actors shape their communicative environment to suit their needs and the needs of their fellow citizens. Yet, in spite of the innovations and agency found on the continent, African media remains strongly influenced by colonial legacies ranging from colonial media infrastructure and operational logic. What’s more, models of journalism, especially those from Britain, Germany and France, are taught and practiced in independent African countries; mea…
Social Media and Elections in Africa, Volume 1: Theoretical Perspectives and Election Campaigns
Civil society coalitions as pathways to PSB reform in Southern Africa
Democracy requires open public service broadcasting (PSB) institutions that constantly interact with active informed citizens. This article posits that a more proactive network of civil society across Southern Africa can produce an impact on PSB institutions in these countries enhancing reform and accountability to the public. We enter this topic by identifying pathways towards increased cooperation among public service broadcasters, civil societ…
Routledge Handbook of African Media and Communication Studies
Media and communication are integral to politics, culture, economies, societies and everyday life. The teaching and research of media and communication involves making sense of the ways in which we communicate as well as accounting for the impact of media and technology on society. It entails investigating how people, communities and institutions influence the media and how media and communication technologies themselves shape social relations. A…
Geopolitics of China's Rising Media and Soft Power in Africa: Eating and Being Eaten
China is part of a group of countries rapidly projecting their geopolitical power in an expanded engagement with Africa. The extent to which this is imperialism is debatable among Africans, with some arguing that China is actually Africa's best ally when it comes to trade and development. Using Zimbabwe as a case study of local responses to China's expansionist geopolitics, the article contributes to debates on international development based new…
Decoloniality and the push for African media and communication studies
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of the book. The book introduces possibilities opened up by Fanon and Ngugi’s writings for historicising African media and communication studies. Chasi similarly responds to the call to carve out space for African theories for the discipline. Chasi asks if strategic communication can be separated from violence and warfare, and draws implications utiliz…
Afrokology of media and communication studies
This chapter constitutes a quarrel from the margins, an explication of Afrokology and an introduction to its counter-hegemonic heuristic approach in media and communication studies. It goes beyond critiques of the marginality of African approaches in media and communication studies to position Afrokology as a decolonial heuristic tool that is collaborative, convivial and transdisciplinary in its conversation with other forms of knowledge. The cha…
Sociology (24 works) · Political science (23 works) · Media studies (17 works) · Law (15 works) · Media Studies and Communication (13 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · African history and culture studies (8 works) · Social science (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works)