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"Media and Communication Theory in Africa" is a book edited by Nelson Okorie, Babatunde Raphael Ojebuyi, and Ngozi Okpara that explores the nature, dynamics, and functions of media in the African context. The book covers various types of media and communication, including the press, family communication, film, and health. It examines theories associated with press communication, such as normative press theory and gate-keeping theory, and discusses the contributions of family communication perspectives to communication studies. The book also delves into the value of film theories in understanding African cinema and explores health communication theories and their application in Africa. The use of diverse cases and visuals throughout the book provides readers with a conceptual and empirical framework for understanding media and communication in different African contexts. While the book could benefit from clearer organization, it is a valuable contribution to the study of communication theories in Africa. [Extracted from the article]

Chapter 6, "Biopolitics, Governmentality and the Banopticon", moves beyond the structural features of discourse towards critical theories that are specific to security discourse within the political sphere. Recent decades have witnessed a widely adopted application of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) in social sciences for its keen insights into how social and political problems are addressed from an interdisciplinary perspective, especially those issues concerning inequality and power dominance. The discourse of security: language, illiberalism and governmentality: edited by Malcolm N. MacDonald and Duncan Hunter, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 353 pp., £79.99 (hardcover), ISBN 978-3-319-97192-6. [Extracted from the article]