Global Pandemics in the Media: An African Perspective
This ground-breaking book, which focuses on three global pandemics—HIV and AIDS, Ebola, and COVID-19—examines a broad spectrum of pandemic reporting and communication dynamics from an African perspective. […].
— Prof. Sarah Chiumbu, Department of Communication and Media Studies, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
[…]. This edited book volume uniquely underscores the importance of centring African perspectives on the mediation of global pandemics within the decolonial turn debate. It is one of few books to critically interrogate the mediation of the global pandemic
from a journalism, communication, and media studies perspective in Africa, […].
— Dr. Jacinta Maweu, Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya
In Global Pandemics in the Media: An African Perspective, […]. The editors have generated an intellectually stimulating and ‘time-defying’ resource that centres African experiences in mainstream public health communication discourses, which are heavily dominated and crowded by Western scholarship.
— Dr. Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara, School of Social and Political Sciences,
University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Beyond the Coloniality of Internationalism: Reworlding the World from the Global South
Beyond the Coloniality of Internationalism: Reworlding the World from the Global South
Deploying a decolonial epistemic perspective to reflect on a terminally ill international system besieged by numerous crises, Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni makes a strong case for reworlding the world from the global South in general and global Africa in particular. Taking the Russia-Ukraine War as a crisis that portends a change of the present world order, he projects an emerging planetary pluriversal future. Challenging mainstream theories of internationalism, the book highlights anti-imperial struggles and decolonial praxes of reconstituting and remaking the world after neoliberal imperial internationalism.
“Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni calls for a root and branch dismantling of the moribund order and its replacement with a new one that draws from the rich decolonial, anti-imperialist, anti-patriarchal, and human-centred heritage that is rooted in the history of struggles in the global South.”- Adebayo Olukoshi, Distinguished Professor, Wits School of Governance, South Africa
“This book is a magnificent antidote to what Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, encapsulated in a mighty single sentence: the danger of a single story. By doing so, the book reminds us of another sign of the change of era: decolonial thinking and being in the world, rewording the world, is not an academic question, it is about life. Knowing to live rather than living to know.” Walter D. Mignolo, William Wannamaker Distinguished Professor, Duke University
“Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni’s powerful book draws from the Ukraine war to provide an anti-colonial interpretation of international relations.” Vijay Prashad, Professor & Director, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
“Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni crafts a powerful message of deliverance and peace.”-Stephen Chan, Professor of World Politics, SOAS, University of London
“Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni repaints the canvas vividly from the right side, revisiting history, critiquing paradigms, and, most importantly, offering prospects for an alternative approach.” –Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Professor of African & Gender Studies, University of Ghana
“Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni undertakes a breath-taking task of synthesis, bringing together into conversation Marxism, the Black Radical Tradition and decolonial perspectives into an analysis of the continuing coloniality of international power relations.” Aditya Nigam, Professor at the Centre for Developing Societies, Delhi
“Ndlovu- Gatsheni’s book is a political toolbox, as much as it is a spiritual canvas, and a historical map for all of us who refuse to believe that no other world is possible.” Ricardo Sanin-Restrepo, Professor of Legal and Political Theory, Universidad Javeriana
CODESRIA 2023
ISBN 978 2 38234 099 8
