6. Tabloid Journalism Aspirations in Africa

Brian offers a summary of ‘Tabloid Journalism Practice in Africa’, revisiting some of the insights discussed in the book, and reflecting on the global practice of tabloid journalism, and its positioning in Africa. Brian looks at the challenges and success stories comparatively throughout the analysis and refocuses some of the aspirations to the future of tabloid journalism in Africa. Brian concludes that the various criticisms pointed at tabloid journalism, they are not only unique to this genre, but to the broader journalism practice as well, and that, tabloidisation in Africa is now finding its roots in radio, online, and television, further stretching the definition. Additionally, Brian concludes that the book needs to be given weight for engaging scholarly debates in the scarcely explored field of tabloid journalism in Africa, and for engaging views of the tabloid journalists themselves as men and women who work in the infotainment genre.