Gender, journalism and democracy in Southern Africa

Media provide a glimpse of the level of development that any country enjoys. Media freedom is arguably positively correlated to development levels. Female media practitioners play pivotal roles in the development of their respective countries and media industries. Gadzekpo (2) notes that those parts of Africa that have enjoyed substantial levels of democracy have also experienced growing media sectors. There is much academic focus on the link between media and democracy in Africa, but the relationship between gender, democracy and media has been largely ignored.

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