HIS MASTER'S VOICE: MASS COMMUNICATION AND SINGLE-PARTY POLITICS IN GUINEA UNDER SEKOU TOURE
ISBN: 9781592213061
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By using the case study of Guinea, the author explores systemically (1) the nature of the single-party regime and the role of first-generation post-colonial African leadership, (2) the central role of ideology in the twin-programs of statecraft and nation-building by ideological one-party states, and (3) the contribution of mass communication to the PDG (Parti Démocratique de Guinée) regimes political survival and self-rejuvenation under the charismatic leadership of Sékou Touré from 1957 to 1984. With carefully examined inside accounts the author, himself an insider, documents the different phases and facets of the recent political history of Guinea which was dramatically affected by the Cold War.