Searching for a New Kenya: politics and social media on the streets of Mombasa

Abstract

“voice of the voiceless” by offering sublet avenues of expression,” (Mano 2007, 61). Good examples cited by the authors include a great joke about a goat, school fees and a minister. I won’t tell the joke here, it would ruin you reading the book, which I encourage you to do. It tells the story of going beyond the journalism of: I write, you read disruption, but adds the textured layer of the economic, cultural, political particularisms in the discussions and analysis of disruption in journalism and audience participation. There are both universals and particularisms in this book, that is to say, universally journalism is disrupted but how audience participation occurs differs in the sub-Saharan continent. It is readable, with sparks of humour, but also a significant academic contribution, especially within the foregrounding of decolonial thinking from the global south. Glenda Daniels is an associate professor in Media Studies Wits University.