In the Shadows of the Kremlin and the White House: Africa's Media Image From Communism to Post-Communism

In the Shadows of the Kremlin and the White House provides the first comparative study of the Soviet / Russian and Western press coverage of Africa. It analyzes Africa's image in the ex-Soviet and Western press by comparing news coverage of Africa in general under the two press systems. For this purpose, three Soviet publications —Pravda, Izvestia, Novoe Vremya and three Western print media — the Daily Telegraph (Britain), New York Times, and Newsweek were content-analyzed for a 16 year period (1982-1998).