Humanities & Communication - Daytona Beach College of Arts & Sciences 2012 New Media and Ethno-Politics in the Guinean Diaspora Mohamed S. Camara Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University,
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[email protected]. AFRICA MEDIA & DEMOCRACY JOURNAL Vol. 1 ISSUE: 1 30 November 2012 Available online at http://www.amdmcjournal.net ISSN: 978-9988-0-9954-1 ©2012 AMDMC Journal FULL PAPER NEW MEDIA AND ETHNO-POLITICS IN THE GUINEAN DIASPORA Mohamed Saliou Camara, PhD Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Daytona Beach, Florida USA 1 New Media and Ethno-Politics in the Guinean Diaspora Abstract This paper discusses the resurgence of ethno-politics in Guinea in conjunction with the reintroduction of multiparty politics after three decades of single-party and military rule, and the trend’s multilayered repercussion into the Guinean Diaspora of North America. It further examines the principal ways in which ethno-regionalist organisations populating that Diaspora use and misuse new media outlets (web sites, web radio stations, and blogs) in order to promote the political agenda of their respective ethno-political elites.