Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: a new Africa's media image? / Mel Bunce, Suzanne Franks and Chris Paterson -- Framing Africa. The international news coverage of Africa: beyond the "single story" / Mel Bunce -- Media perspectives: in defence of western journalists in Africa / Michela Wrong -- Reporting and writing Africa in a world of unequal encounters / Francis Nyamonjoh -- Media perspectives: how does Africa get reported? a letter of concern to 60 minutes / Howard French -- How not to write about writing about Africa / Martin Scott -- Bringing Africa home: reflections on discursive practices of domestication in international news reporting on Africa by Belgian television / Stijn Joye -- The image of Africa from the perspectives of the African diasporic press in the UK / Ola Ogunyemi -- The image makers. Mediating the distant Other for the distant audience: How do Western correspondents in East and Southern Africa perceive their audience? / Toussaint Nothias -- Media perspectives: television reporting of Africa 30 years on / Zeinab Badawi -- Foreign correspondents in Sub-Saharan Africa: their socio-demographics and professional culture -- Paulo Nuno Vicente -- Media perspectives: reflecting on my father's legacy in reporting Africa / Salim Amin -- We're missing the story: the media's retreat from foreign reporting / Anjan Sundaram -- Instagram as a potential platform for alternative visual culture in South Africa / Danielle Becker -- Media perspectives: social media and new narratives: Kenyans tweet back / H. Nanjala Nyabola -- A "new Ghana" in "Rising Africa"? / Rachel Flamenbaum -- Development and humanitarian stories. Media perspectives: is Africa's development story still stuck on aid? / Eliza Anyangwe -- AIDS in Africa and the British media: shifting images of a pandemic / Ludek Stavinoha -- Media perspectives: a means to an end? creating a market for humanitarian news from Africa / Heba Aly -- It was a "simple", "positive" story of African self-help (manufactured for a Kenyan NGO by advertising multinationals) / Kate Wright -- Media perspectives: Africa for Norway: challenging stereotypes using humour / Nikolas Poulsen Viki -- Bloggers, celebrities, and economists: news coverage of the Millennium Village Project / Audrey Arriss, Anya Schiffrin and Michelle Chahine -- Politics in the representation of Africa. Africa through Chinese eyes: new frames or the same old lens? African news in English from China Central Television, compared with the BBC / Vivien Marsh -- Media perspectives: new media & African engagement with the global public sphere / Sean Jacobs -- Shifting power relations, shifting images Herman Wasserman -- Communicating violence: the media strategies of Boko Haram / Abdullahi Abubakar -- Media Perspectives: Chinese media perceptions on the reporting of Africa / James Wan -- New imperialisms, old stereotypes / Chris Paterson -- Nollywood news: African screen media at the intersections of the global and the local / Noah Tsika.