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Is this how we look at Africa? The 'German' image of Africa as a continent as represented radio, television and printed media 
Convenors:
Hans Peter Hahn (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
Sylvestre Kouakou (Goethe-Universität FrankfurtMain)
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Format:
Panel
Stream:
Images of the living and dead
Location:
Room 1234
Sessions:
Thursday 9 June, -
Time zone: Europe/Berlin

Short Abstract:

Images of Africa, produced by a wide range of different media, cinstitute rough simplifications and stereotypes. with a special focus on German language, this panel discusses, how do authors manage to represent simplified but popular images.

Long Abstract:

Popular perceptions of Africa do have a great influence on the image of Africa in Europe. The basis of such popular perceptions consists of elements from a wide variety of media: in addition to video, television, radio, internet the daily press and other media, in this panel, a genre of documents is worth to be examined that has a considerable importance but is also characterized by great heterogeneity. It is about reportages in the format of a book, which have as their subject a synoptic picture of Africa. Authors of such documents are travelers, very often also journalists, who provide a diagnosis of Africa by producing a larger and coherent texts. Such texts of book size usually constitute an extra work apart from their employment with an organ of the press, television or radio. Such documents give special room to the autors’ personal perspective.

On the one hand, the genre of book reportage is of outstanding importance, if one thinks, for example, of the very large print runs of the books by Peter Scholl-Latour or Ruppert Neudeck. But, on the other hand, it is also particularly heterogeneous, because there is no standard corpus of knowledge, no standard of presentation and no fixed journalistic framework. What images do these works convey? What is the relationship between these works and images about Africa in other media? And, finally, what are the textual characteristics of this kind of coverage of Africa? These are the questions this panel invites to discuss more in detail.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Thursday 9 June, 2022, -