Sean Jacobs

Sean Jacobs is an assistant professor of Communication Studies and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. His research focuses on media and democracy, social movements, as well as citizenship and identity. Jacobs contributes occasionally to Comment is Free at The Guardian’s website and blogs at Africa is a Country.

Recently from Sean Jacobs

Ugandan editor wins International Press Freedom Award; wanted by police back home

By Sean Jacobs | 21 November 2008

Today Ugandan editor Andrew Mwenda was awarded a Committee to Protect International Press Freedom Award. Meanwhile back in Kampala police summoned Mwenda for questioning over his magazine’s hard-hitting political coverage.

What next in South Africa

By Sean Jacobs | 24 September 2008

Sean Jacobs (Concerned Africa Scholars co-chair), writes about the end of the Mbeki-era and its aftermath at The Guardian Online.

Robert Mugabe’s Legacy

By Sean Jacobs | 18 September 2008

One of the legacies of that time – and a testament of the power of the nationalist narrative that African independence leaders embodied – is that few if any of Mugabe’s present Western critics publicly denounced these murders. Instead he received a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II in 1994 and honorary degrees from American universities. …read the rest