Author ORCID Identifier
Ignatius Suglo: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9028-936X
Abstract
"In Media,Culture,and Decolonization: Re-righting the Subaltern Histories of Ghana, Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed sets out not only to offer a grounded examination of how colonial encounters and legacies still shape media cultures in Ghana but also to demonstrate how we can re-right these subaltern histories. The author playson re-rightingsubaltern histories by re-writinghistories that not only center the past and present work of indigenous communities but more importantly the conceptual grounding of this kind of work. Key here is how Mohammed centers indigenous communities in our thinking of decolonization, which stands starkly against mapping transatlantic experiences onto the nation-state by asking what those transatlantic experiences did to and mean for African communities. Most importantly, Mohammed begins her theorization from indigenous communities in Northern Ghana, drawing on indigenous epistemologies and ways of knowing, she asks how can we reexamine our understanding of media cultures in a postcolonial moment and what can these theorizations do that existing Global North centering ones do not? While critiquing historical and structural encounters that produce inequity, the book offers a path forward through the embrace of indigenous epistemologies not as alternative ways of knowing but as the way of knowing."
Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2026
Publisher Statement
Copyright © 2026 (Ignatius G. D. Suglo, [email protected]). Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd).
Recommended Citation
Suglo, Ignatius, "Review of Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed's: Media, Culture, and Decolonization: Re-righting the Subaltern Histories of Ghana" (2026). Rhetoric and Communication Studies Faculty Publications. 78.
https://scholarship.richmond.edu/rhetoric-faculty-publications/78
