Performing power, composing culture: The state press in Ghana

Ethnography

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 69-98

  Hasty, Jennifer ^a  

^a PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; discourse; Ghana; journalism; media; the state

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247652756     PISSN: 14661381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1466138106064591     Document Type: Article

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