Broadcasting Democracy

This is an emphatic, engaging, well-grounded and richly argued study of the centrality of radio in claims and contestations that pertain to identity and democracy in South Africa post-apartheid"" — Francis B. Nyamnjoh, author of Africa’s Media, Democracy and the Politics of Belonging.

""Tanja Bosch’s new book is an important addition to the literature. It tackles the under-researched medium of radio, demonstrating how public, community and commercial stations in South Africa contribute to identity formation and to the public sphere in distinct but related ways. Both scholarly and readable, the work is essential reading for anybody wanting to understand South Africa’s unique media landscape and still new democracy."" — Franz Kruger, Professor of Journalism and Director of the Wits Radio AcademyRadio is Africa’s most ubiquitous medium. South Africa’s race-space relations were footprinted during apartheid by transmission technology therefore making sense of radio helps to make sense of the postapartheid condition. Talk radio is part of the ideological topography. Broadcasting Democracy addresses contemporary issues in historical context."" — Keyan G Tomaselli, Distinguished Professor, University of Johannesburg; Professor Emeritus and Fellow, University of KwaZulu-Natal