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Performing power, composing culture

The state press in Ghana

Pacific Lutheran University, USA

This article examines how African political and discursive forms shape the seemingly universal practices of journalism at a state newspaper in Ghana. The daily work routine, relationships with sources, criteria of newsworthiness, narrative techniques - all are locally determined by Ghanaian standards of discourse and sociality. Local aesthetics of representation and discursive propriety establish a distinctive set of conventions for political speech and news writing. Through aesthetically ‘Africanized’ discursive styles and techniques, the state press constructs the authoritative social imaginary of the nation-state

Key Words: media • the state • discourse • journalism • Africa • Ghana

Ethnography, Vol. 7, No. 1, 69-98 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1466138106064591


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