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Steve Kekana in 2020 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Photo by Oupa Bopape/Gallo Images via Getty Images

July 8, 2021

Steve Kekana: an 80s South African pop star, and much more

Yonela Mnana, University of the Witwatersrand

We should remember him as just another ordinary human being who did extraordinary things.

Father Coughlin’s bully pulpit. Fotosearch/Getty Images

January 15, 2021

That time private US media companies stepped in to silence the falsehoods and incitements of a major public figure … in 1938

Bill Kovarik, Radford University

Broadcasters silenced Father Charles Coughlin in 1938, just as Twitter, YouTube and Facebook have shut down pro-Trump incitements to violence in 2021.

Artist Kudakwashe Chigodo poses for a portrait with his smartphone in Harare. Jekesai Njikizana/AFP/Getty Images

August 2, 2020

How apps on mobile phones are changing Zimbabwe’s talk radio

Stanley Tsarwe, University of Zimbabwe

Apps like WhatsApp have connected more voices to participate in live talk radio - but this comes with new challenges.

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Bill Kovarik
Professor of Communication, Radford University
Stanley Tsarwe
Journalism Researcher and Lecturer, University of Zimbabwe
Yonela Mnana
PhD candidate in Music, University of the Witwatersrand

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