Professor Tawana Kupe nominates President Mbeki for "communicator of the year" for 2004. It may be a controversial accolade, but the president does know how to outsmart us.

We may have made some major advances since the colonial era, but is their really anything "African" about the continent’s media? Professor Tawana Kupe is sceptical, claiming that the modern media is an effect of the colonial intrusion into Africa.

American commercial media has a lot in common with state-controlled media in undemocratic states, argues Professor Tawana Kupe.