Wallace Chuma

First there was the decolonisation process that started in the ’50s, then came the deregulation of the ’90s. The "third wind" to change the African print landscape could be driven by pan-African projects out of South African companies like Johncom and Naspers. Wallace Chuma reports.

The print sector in Africa is still an elitist enterprise. It may be a solid source of political criticism, but financial constraints have kept circulations at a minimum. Can the so-called "imperialists" from the South find a business model?

Robert Mugabe speedily revamped Zimbabwe’s information ministry in time for the launch of the land reform programme in 2000. Wallace Chuma considers how Jonathan Moyo’s new department handles public communication in abnormal times.

The dynamic of Zimbabwes mushrooming private press flies in the face of economic orthodoxy, argues Wallace Chuma. How is it that new products continue being unleashed on a turbulent market characterised by falling demand and shocking uncertainty?