This article examines the relationship between journalism in Africa and foreign investment in the African media space through an analysis of newsroom practices and the power relations that inform such practices in Chinese media organisations based in Africa. It illustrates the discrepancies between China's promise of mutuality and equality and the lived experiences...

The debate on Africanising media theories has been broadly framed through the bifocal prism of postmodernism and postcolonialism. While the postmodernists argue that there is no single framework for studying the media in a pluralised world, the postcolonialists contend media theories inspired by the lived realities of the Anglo-American sphere are not suited to the...