1st Edition

Press Silence in Postcolonial Zimbabwe News Whiteouts, Journalism and Power

By Zvenyika Eckson Mugari Copyright 2020
314 Pages 38 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

314 Pages 38 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

314 Pages 38 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book focuses on news silence in Zimbabwe, taking as a point of departure the (in)famous blank spaces (whiteouts) which newspapers published to protest official censorship policy imposed by the Rhodesian government from the mid-1960s to the end of that decade. Based on archived news content, the author investigates the cause(s) of the disappearance of blank spaces in Zimbabwe’s newspapers... Read more

Chapter 1. Colonial Foundations of Press Silence in Zimbabwe

Chapter 2. Colonial Press and Intersecting Loci of Silencing

Chapter 3. News Whiteouts Under Udi and After

Chapter 4. News Silence on Forced Removals Colonial Rhodesia

Chaper 5. The Daily News And ‘Telling the Land Story Like It Is’

Chapter 6. The Herald and Patriotic News on The Land Issue

Chapter 7. Operation Restore (Colonial) Order

Chapter 8. ‘Operation Restore Legacy’ In Post-Mugabe Era

Chapter 9. Do-It-Yourself (DIY) News and The Emancipatory Promise

Biography

Zvenyika Eckson Mugari is Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Lecturer in the Media and Society Studies Department at the Midlands State University, Zimbabwe. He also holds a Research Fellowship with the Centre for Diversity Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.