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Teaching Communication Ethics in the African Context: A Response to Globalization

The present article analyzes how the teaching of communication ethics could prepare African journalists to develop in Africa a more independent, self-reliant response to globalization. The economic stagnation and governance without accountability are due, largely, to the failure to link citizens into a democratic national communication system. Professional journalists often do little to develop self-reliant national democracies because their training and ethics focus more on a blind photographic reproduction of the minutiae of social reality rather than the ability to see in current events the central issues of a democratic communication system, namely, social inequalities, structural injustices, exclusion from communication, and lack of accountable governance.

Keywords: Accountability, freedom of expression, globalization, journalism ethics, journalism training, media and democracy, media history, moral obligation, news values, responsible journalism, teaching media ethics, truthfulness in media