Nigerian Television: Fifty Years of Television in Africa
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| Rating | : | 4.35 (855 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0976694123 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 350 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-13 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Nigerian Television: Fifty Years of Television in Africa is both timely and strategic as Nigeria celebrates the golden jubilee of its television industry (1959 to 2009). The book is primarily an account collated from a range of organisational sources using ethnographic techniques. It shows how central television has been in this process thus revising previous views which, in their celebration of radio as the medium for social mobilisation at the grassroots, have understated the profile of television. The research effort informing the book has sought to capture factors shaping the encoding practices of Nigerian television in its five decades of operations. Past efforts at documenting the general history of television have ten