Media Reforms and Democratization in Emerging Democracies of Sub-Saharan Africa

This book examines the media reform processes and re-democratization projects of Ghana and Nigeria's emerging democracies. It evaluates and critiques these reform processes, arguing that because of dependency approaches resulting from the transplanting of policy framework from the West into the...

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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
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