Media and multi-party elections in Africa: The case of Ethiopia

Authors

  • Wondwosen Teshome

Keywords:

Africa, Democracy, Ethiopia, Fourth Estate, Media, Multi-party election, Press

Abstract

In any democratic country the media serves as a watch dog of events and decisions and assists citizens to be informed about what is going on in the country. Free media also plays a very important role to conduct democratic elections. The aim of this paper is to analyse the role of the media in the African democratization process particularly in the multi-party elections that widely emerged in the continent in the 1990s. The paper investigates the contributions of the media in the emerging African democracies by using the performance of the media in the 2005 multi-party parliamentary election in Ethiopia as a case study. The paper also attempts to assess the Ethiopian press laws of 1992 and 2008, which are the only press laws in the history of the country.

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Author Biography

Wondwosen Teshome

Dr. Wondwosen Teshome is a researcher at the Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna. He completed his Ph. D (in Anthropology) with distinction. He has published many scientific papers and books. His research interests include Medical Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Political Science, International Relations, Gender study, and History.

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Published

2009-01-10

How to Cite

Teshome, W. (2009). Media and multi-party elections in Africa: The case of Ethiopia. Journal of Human Sciences, 6(1), 94–122. Retrieved from https://www.j-humansciences.com/ojs/index.php/IJHS/article/view/591

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 1 (2009)

Section

Political Science

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Uluslararası İnsan Bilimleri Dergisi ISSN:1303-5134
International Journal of Human Sciences ISSN:2458-9489
 
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