Radio technology and broadcasting played a central role in the formation of colonial Portuguese Southern Africa and the postcolonial nation-state, Angola. Moorman details how settlers, the colonial state, African nationalists, and the postcolonial state all used radio to project power, while the latter employed it to challenge empire. (Publisher)
...MoreReview Kathryn M. de Luna (2022) Review of "Powerful frequencies: radio, state power, and the cold war in Angola, 1931-2002". American Historical Review (pp. 571-572).
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