Gogo Breeze: Zambia's Radio Elder and the Voices of Free Speech

by Harri Englund

Book Overview

When Breeze FM, a radio station in the provincial Zambian town of Chipata, hired an elderly retired schoolteacher in 2003, no one anticipated the skyrocketing success that would follow. A self-styled grandfather on air, Gogo Breeze seeks intimacy over the airwaves and dispenses advice on a wide variety of grievances and transgressions. Multiple voices are broadcast and juxtaposed through call-ins and dialogue, but free speech finds its ally in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022649893X
• ISBN13: 9780226498935
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"