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Even though sub-Saharan Africa is the region most affected by HIV/AIDS in the world, no new theories have been discovered, and questions about life and death are ignored. This book uses certain selected communication practices to offer the foundations of an African theory of communication, applicable to the crisis of HIV/AIDS.

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1. Introduction 2. Are You Human? 3. Failure that was Waiting to Happen 4. On Belief in the Communication of State Leaders 5. Just HIV/AIDS Communication 6. Towards Ubuntu as a Framework Works Cited

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Colin Chasi is Senior Lecturer and Head of Department, Communication Studies, at the University of Johannesburg. He works on aspects of the philosophy of communication and health, with special interest in questions of African existence. He is author of Hard Words: On HIV/AIDS Communication.

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