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To some; Africa’s sluggish development is masterminded by foreign developed nations while to others, answers to the continent’s development trends lie in its own decisions. Within this broad continuum is a trajectory in media discourse that labels advanced nations, particularly the Western press, as mouthpieces of portraying Africa negatively. This seems to kick-start Serwornoo to explore the Afro-pessimism discourse from the lens of Africa’s own media to the rest of the world. By this, the book specifically aims at exploring how the Ghanaian media has portrayed the continent of Africa in their foreign news pages in an attempt to put forward new trends in the patterns of Afro-pessimism. The book fills a significant gap in news gathering and selection in relation to dominant themes which tends to be a product of ideological issues, organisational conditions and behaviour of journalists in the running of media establishments. 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class="ds-related-work--abstract ds2-5-body-sm">A review of Jennifer Hasty's book, The Press and Political Culture in Ghana (Indiana University Press, 2005)</p><div class="ds-related-work--ctas"><button class="ds2-5-text-link ds2-5-text-link--inline js-swp-download-button" data-signup-modal="{"location":"wsj-grid-card-download-pdf-modal","work_title":"Review of Jennifer Hasty's book, The Press and Political Culture in Ghana","attachmentId":45970785,"attachmentType":"pdf","work_url":"https://www.academia.edu/25636727/Review_of_Jennifer_Hastys_book_The_Press_and_Political_Culture_in_Ghana","alternativeTracking":true}"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">download</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download free PDF</span></button><a class="ds2-5-text-link ds2-5-text-link--inline js-wsj-grid-card-view-pdf" href="https://www.academia.edu/25636727/Review_of_Jennifer_Hastys_book_The_Press_and_Political_Culture_in_Ghana"><span 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href="https://www.academia.edu/66241918/The_news_media_and_democracy_in_Ghana_1992_2000_">The news media and democracy in Ghana (1992-2000)</a><div class="ds-related-work--metadata"><a class="js-wsj-grid-card-author ds2-5-body-sm ds2-5-body-link" data-author-id="100930503" href="https://gimpagh.academia.edu/WILBERFORCESEFAKORDZISAH">WILBERFORCE SEFAKOR DZISAH</a></div><p class="ds-related-work--metadata ds2-5-body-xs">2008</p><p class="ds-related-work--abstract ds2-5-body-sm">The study critically examines the role played by the news media in a modern African democracy. The issues of democracy and the theories that drive them are mostly either Euro-centric or Anglo-American. The perspective offered by this thesis showed that Africa has a unique system which calls for a hybridised approach to the study of media and democracy. The functioning of a state-owned media, insulated from governmental control by the 1992 Ghana Constitution alongside privately-owned media is a phenomenon worth the undertaking. What the study has done was an engagement with normative theories of media and democracy to determine whether or not the news media and more particularly, the newspaper media contribute to democratic development of Ghana. In this context, a comparative analytical study of the Daily Graphic and the Ghanaian Chronicle, state and private entities respectively, underpinned the enquiry into the possible influences on elections, checks on democratic accountability a...</p><div class="ds-related-work--ctas"><button class="ds2-5-text-link ds2-5-text-link--inline js-swp-download-button" data-signup-modal="{"location":"wsj-grid-card-download-pdf-modal","work_title":"The news media and democracy in Ghana (1992-2000)","attachmentId":77510563,"attachmentType":"pdf","work_url":"https://www.academia.edu/66241918/The_news_media_and_democracy_in_Ghana_1992_2000_","alternativeTracking":true}"><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">download</span><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">Download free PDF</span></button><a class="ds2-5-text-link ds2-5-text-link--inline js-wsj-grid-card-view-pdf" href="https://www.academia.edu/66241918/The_news_media_and_democracy_in_Ghana_1992_2000_"><span class="ds2-5-text-link__content">View PDF</span><span class="material-symbols-outlined" style="font-size: 18px" translate="no">chevron_right</span></a></div></div><div class="ds-related-work--container js-wsj-grid-card" data-collection-position="8" data-entity-id="121755083" data-sort-order="default"><a class="ds-related-work--title js-wsj-grid-card-title ds2-5-body-md ds2-5-body-link" href="https://www.academia.edu/121755083/K_B_Amihere_2015_I_Spoke_for_Freedom_History_and_Politics_of_the_Ghana_Press_Published_by_DigiBooks_Ghana_Limited_Gh100_00">K. 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To address this, we focus on the representation of Africa in ‘MO* Magazine’, a Belgian alternative news magazine that puts emphasis on the Global South, including an extensive coverage of Africa. Applying Critical Discourse Analysis, we examined all articles that focus on Africa during one year in the magazine’s outlets of 2015 and 2016 in addition to in-depth interviews with the editorial staff. This explorative study investigates how MO* Magazine constructs its alternative identity in the context of African news coverage. We argue that a mere empirical focus on features and narratives generally attributed to mainstream media, such as the presence of Afro-pessimistic and -optimistic discourses, is not sufficient to reach conclusions about the alternative identity of a magazine. 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