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DECEMBER 09, 2025

Media, Culture and Decolonization: Re-righting the Subaltern Histories of Ghana invites us to look at media and culture from a decolonial perspective. Through Dagbaŋ epistemologies and knowledge systems, this book examines media by highlighting how African languages, cultures and traditions can shift how we think of knowledge. It is an offering to anyone curious about the relationship between culture, language and media. By focusing on African language media in Ghana such as film, television and radio, the book emphasizes the importance of espousing a decolonial politic and praxis in the process of co-creating knowledge with indigenous communities. It connects the struggles of global majority countries and demonstrates the ways in which (neo)colonialism and imperialism impede the work toward liberatory futures. This book demonstrates the potential that African language media hold as tools of cultural and epistemological decolonization.

Praise for the Book

"This book is part of an unstoppable tidal shift in the center of knowledge production's gravity from Eurocentrism. Mohammed convincingly illustrates that the world takes on intricate hues and shapes when processed from the lens of indigeneity—a powerful tool to transform Africa(ns)."

- Sylvia Tamale, author of Decolonization and Afro-Feminism

"Drawing from lived experience in Northern Ghana, collectively coproduced knowledge, attention to the materiality of language, and a radical feminist subaltern analysis, Mohammed offers a bold intervention in how we should theorize mediated culture in the global capitalist and colonial present." 

- Paula Chakravartty, James Weldon Johnson Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University

“This groundbreaking work on decolonizing African media studies explores Indigenous media practices in Northern Ghana, offering fresh insights into local agency, political economy, and global media consumption. I strongly recommend this book.

- Amin Alhassan, Director-General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation

— Former Customer