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July 15, 2026Africa SpectrumOpen Access

Bordered Voices: Cross-Border Zimbabwean Traders, Vernacular Community Radio and Urban Citizenship in Musina, South Africa

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This article examines how vernacular community radio shapes urban citizenship for Zimbabwean traders in Musina, highlighting implications for belonging and visibility.

Key Points

  • The aim is to explore how vernacular community radio influences cross-border Zimbabwean traders' practices of urban citizenship in Musina.
  • Ethnographic observation in markets in Musina
  • Semi-structured interviews with Zimbabwean traders and broadcasters
  • Discourse analysis of community radio programs and call-ins
  • Community radio programming affects claims to belonging and visibility for traders.
  • Language choices in broadcasts reproduce hierarchies of worth among migrants.
  • The concept of 'bordered voices' illustrates the unevenness in mediated participation.

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Wonder Juniper (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a57245a88b21df875480c76https://doi.org/10.1177/00020397261469443
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