Le journalisme, une profession qui dessert son continent d'origine
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Date
2002
Authors
Kabale, M. K.
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Kenyatta University
Abstract
This paper willfocus on how journalism has done a disservice linguistically and ideologically to the
continent of Africa.
According to the history of journalism and especially to the history of the print media, this profession
is of African origin. According to La Croix J-P (1967:15) thirteen centuries before our era only the
Egyptians had information on papyrus and divulgence of their own languages. This early example set
by Egyptians will serve as a model to the other African countries. But in our era instead of promoting
African languages, the print media continues to promote foreign languages. Apart from the linguistic
aspect, the pessimistic ideology of African journalists and others who are interested in Africa push
them to depict the continent negatively. Now to face the challenge, in order to enable our African
languages to compete favorably in the linguistic arena in future, we wish to propose some
recommendations to African journalists, to linguists and to education policy makers
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Chemchemi Vol.2, No.1 2002