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The book considers the regulatory interventions that have been introduced for new media forms in Africa. This includes regulation covering digital broadcasting, social media and the wider digital media. Emphasis is placed on the regulation of new media, including digital media legislation, internet bans, regulation of online harms, data infrastructure, and digital policymaking. It presents new ideas on media and digital regulation in the Global South, focusing on the review, analysis, and critique of interventions in Africa.
Detailed discussion of country case studies in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) regions highlights trends, patterns, contradictions, and dilemmas in policy and regulation of new media.
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
Vincent Obia and Sulayman Bah
Part 1: Regulatory Trends and the Research Landscape
1. Regulating Digital Technologies in Africa: Navigating a Shifting Tech Landscape
Hayes Mawindi Mabwezara
2. Human Rights, Freedom of Expression, and Multi-Stakeholderism in the Regulation of New Media Technologies in Africa – Interview with Guilherme Canela
Vincent Obia
3. Mapping A Research Agenda for Digital Media Regulation in Africa: A Systematic Analysis
Vincent Obia
Part 2: State Policy Approaches and Regulatory Challenges
4. Cyber Security Laws, Digital Media Spaces and Media Freedoms in Zambia
Youngson Ndawana, Joanne Knowles, and Elastus Mambwe
5. Morocco’s Approach to Digital Media Regulation: State Policy, Power Asymmetry, Platform Dialogue – Interview with Latifa Akharbach
Yemisi Akinbobola
6. Regime Change?: Digitalisation, Media Convergence and the Constraints to Reforming Ghana’s Analogue Era Regulatory System
Kobina Bedu-Addo
7. Broadcast Media Regulation and Democratic Transitions in Africa: A Nigerian and South African Case Study
Yemisi Akinbobola, Vincent Obia, and Trust Matsilele
Part 3: Digital Media Censorship: Frictions, Tensions, Reactions
8. Balancing Freedom with Responsibility or Simply Pandering to Political Whims: An Analysis of Kenya’s Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes Act, 2018
Esther King’ori and Maureen Syallow
9. Interrogating Online Journalism Regulation and Censorship in Africa – Interview with Churchill Otieno
Sulayman Bah
10. Senegal’s Approach to Digital Media Regulation: Limited Civil Society Consultation, State Control, and the Need for a Continental Approach to Governance – Interview with David Diaz-Jogeix
Sulayman Bah
11. Evasive Journalism: Circumventing the Regulation of Online Journalism in The Gambia
Sulayman Bah
Conclusion
Winston Mano
Index