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CHAPTER1: Introduction - On Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa by Winston Mano -- CHAPTER 2: Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa: Reflections Inspired by Studies of Xenophobia in Cameroon and South Africa by Francis B. Nyamnjoh, University of Cape Town, South Africa -- CHAPTER 3: Racism in South African Newspapers by Herman Wasserman, Rhodes University South Africa -- CHAPTER 4 The road to renaming - what's in a name? The changing of Durban's street names by Kristin Skare Orgeret, University College of Oslo, Norway -- CHAPTER 5: Indigenous language Newspaper Readers in Zimbabwe by Hayes Mabweazara, Edinburgh University -- CHAPTER 6: Reporting Ethnic Minority Issues in Africa: A Study of Nigerian Newspapers By Nkereuwem Udoakah University of Uyo, Nigeria -- CHAPTER 7: Regionalism and ethnicity in the Nigerian press: An analysis of the coverage of Boko Haram and Niger Delta conflicts in the Guardian and Daily Trust, Muhammad Jameel Yusha'u, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne -- CHAPTER 8: Programming for National Unity: The Paradox of Television in Nigeria by Oluyinka Esan, University of Winchester -- CHAPTER 9: Influencing the Information Domain: the UN's Information Intervention in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob, Leeds University, UK -- CHAPTER 10: 'Thus saith the Prophet': The Media, Ethnic Myths and Electoral Politics in Kenya, Duncan Omanga, Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies, University of Bayreuth-Germany -- CHAPTER 11: Pluralist Media in Kenya: A critical view by Elisabet Helander, SOAS, University of London -- CHAPTER 12: State-sanctioned discrimination and media discourses on homosexuality in Namibia by Cecilia Strand, Uppsala University, Sweden -- CHAPTER 13: Class-Struggles, Racism and Greedy in Sakawa Films in Ghana, Felix_Riedel -- CHAPTER 14: Diaspora, identities and the challenge of complexity in Africa Film Daniela Ricci Université Jean Moulin- Lyon3 (France) -- CHAPTER 15: Postcoloni