Guerrilla Radios in Southern Africa - Broadcasters, Technology, Propaganda Wars, and the Armed Struggle

This collection brings together essays on the role that radio played in political resistance against oppressive regimes during the period of the armed struggle in the region.

List of contents

Abbreviations and Acronyms

Chapter 1: Radios of the Liberation Struggle in Southern Africa, Sekibakiba Lekgoathi, Tshepo Moloi and Alda Romão Saúte Saíde

Chapter 2: A Voz da Frelimo and the Liberation of Mozambique, Alda Romão Saúte Saíde

Chapter 3: Angola's Guerrilla Radios: Popular Memory and Perils of Technology, Marissa Moorman

Chapter 4: Liberation Broadcasting: Engineering a Postcolonial Zimbabwe, Mhoze Chikowero

Chapter 5: Spirit Mediums and Guerrilla Radio in the Zimbabwe War of Liberation, Dumisani Moyo and Crispen Chinaka

Chapter 6: Zapu's 'Voice of the Revolution', Munyaradzi Mushonga, Munyaradzi Nyakudya and Lloyd Hazvineyi

Chapter 7: Reminiscences of Zimbabwe's War Radio Broadcasters, Munyaradzi Mushonga, Munyaradzi Nyakudya and Lloyd Hazvineyi

Chapter 8: Swapo's 'Voice of Namibia' as an Instrument of Diplomacy, Robert Heinze

Chapter 9: The Struggle for the Airwaves in South Africa, Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu

Chapter 10: Radio Freedom and Black Consciousness in South Africa, Tshepo Moloi

Chapter 11: International Solidarity and Support for the ANC's Radio Freedom, Sekibakiba Lekgoathi

Chapter 12: In Search of PAC Footprints in Broadcasting, Ali Khangela Hlongwane

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi is Associate Professor of History at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.
Tshepo Moloi is Senior Lecturer of History at the University of the Free State, South Africa.
Alda Romão Saúte Saíde is Associate Professor at Pedagogic University in Maputo, Mozambique.

Product details

• Authors: Sekibakiba Peter Moloi Lekgoathi
• Assisted by: Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi (Editor), Tshepo Moloi (Editor), Moloi Tshepo (Editor), Alda Romão Saúte Saíde (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: Flemish
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781538148440
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-4844-0
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Africa: Past, Present & Prospects
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Media Studies, HISTORY / Military / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Africa, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Radio, Politics & government, Warfare & defence, Politics and government, Warfare and defence, Radio technology