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Viola C. Milton, Winston Mano (eds.)

Oxford; New York: Routledge (2025), 380 pp.

"This book provides an important set of critical reflections from a selection of foundational scholars of African media and communication studies through biographical method. The book interrogates the center of mainstream academic scholarship by providing the foundational history and origins of an A ... more

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Mobilities, ICTs and Marginality in Africa: Comparative Perspectives

Francis Nyamnjoh, Ingrid Brudvig (eds.)

Cape Town: HSRC Press (2016), ix, 244 pp.

"The book aims to situate the cultural, social and, in some cases, transnational context of ICT appropriation and virtual connectivity so as to reposition Africans from various countries and contexts as active agents of social change. The intricacies of local ICT use and the dynamics of mobility in ... more

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Voice & Matter: Communication, Development and the Cultural Return

Oscar Hemer, Thomas Tufte (eds.)

Göteborg: Nordicom (2016), 266 pp.

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Coming of Age: Strides in African Publishing, Essays in Honour of Dr Henry Chakava at 70

Kiarie Kamau, Kirimi Mitambo (eds.)

Henry Chakava (honoured person)

Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers (2016), xxvii, 288 pp.

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Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa: Mediating Conflict in the Twenty-First Century
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Winston Mano (ed.)

London: Tauris (2015), xviii,347 pp.

"In today's Africa racism and ethnicity have been implicated in serious conflicts - from Egypt to Mali to South Africa - that have cost lives and undermined efforts to achieve national cohesion and meaningful development. Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa sets about rethinking the role of me ... more

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Side@Ways: Mobile Margins and the Dynamics of Communication in Africa

Mirjam de Bruijn, Inge Brinkman, Francis Nyamnjoh (eds.)

Bamenda (CM); Leiden: Langaa; African Studies Centre (2013), 202 pp.

"This book is about the workings of networks of the mobile in Africa, a continent usually associated with the ‘global shadows’ of the world. How do changes in the possibilities for communication, with the recent hype of mobile technology, influence the social and economic dynamics in Africa’s ... more

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Mass Media and Democratisation in Cameroon in the Early 1990s

Francis B. Nyamnjoh

Bamenda: Langaa (2011), xiv, 193 pp.

"In the on-going democratic debate, the Cameroonian media have not played the role of objective mediators. A one-party logic, of which government, opposition and the public are guilty, has prevented Cameroonian multipartyism from addressing the major issue: that of how best to bring about real parti ... more

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Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa
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Herman Wasserman (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2011), xiii, 288 pp.

"Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa examines the role that popular media could play to encourage political debate, provide information for development, or critique the very definitions of 'democracy' and 'development'. Drawing on diverse case studies from various regions of the Afric ... more

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Institutional Review: Open Access and Open Knowledge Production Processes. Lessons from CODESRIA

Francis B. Nyamnjoh

African Journal of Information and Communication, issue 10 (2010), pp. 67-72

"This paper examines the publishing activities of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and its ever-evolving publications and dissemination policies. The author offers this “as a possible model to inform and inspire institutions interested in a comprehens ... more

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Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa: Reflections Inspired by Studies of Xenophobia in Cameroon and South Africa

Francis B. Nyamnjoh

Africa Spectrum, volume 45, issue 1 (2010), pp. 57-93

"This paper demonstrates the extent to which the media and belonging in Africa are torn between competing and often conflicting claims of bounded and flexible ideas of culture and identity. It draws on studies of xenophobia in Cameroon and South Africa, inspired by the resilience of the politicizati ... more

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Africa’s Media: Between Professional Ethics and Cultural Belonging

Francis Nyamnjoh

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2009), 25 pp.

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Mobile Phones: The New Talking Drums of Everyday Africa

Mirjam de Bruijn, Francis Nyamnjoh, Inge Brinkman (eds.)

Bamenda (CM); Leiden: Langaa; African Studies Centre (2009), vii, 173 pp.

"This book is about the many ways in which mobile phones are being appropriated by Africans and how they are transforming and are being transformed by society in Africa. A case study from Karthoum (Sudan) shows, how mobile phones are reshaping relationships in a Muslim society, where they enable wom ... more

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Cartooning in Africa
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John A. Lent (ed.)

Cresskill: Hampton Press (2009), xi, 383 pp.

"This volume documents from historical and contemporary perspectives, the situations, trends and issues of cartooning in a number of African countries, and profiles the individuals, forms and phenomena that stand out. All types of cartooning are covered, including comic books, comic strips, gag and ... more

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African Media, African Children: Yearbook 2008
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Norma Pecora, Enyonam Osei-Hwere, Ulla Carlsson (eds.)

Göteborg: Youth and Media International Clearinghouse on Children; Nordicom (2008), 243 pp.

"The essays in this volume reflect a wide-range of issues and concerns related to children’s media culture in Africa. For example, several address the role of entertainment television in Addis Abba, Ghana, South Africa, Kenya, and Zambia and in the lives of Muslim children. Other essays introduce ... more

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Communicating Peace: Entertaining Angels Unawares

Philip Lee (ed.)

Penang (MY): Southbound (2008), 269 pp.

"Communication rights and the ever more urgent need to construct a culture of peace are central to a vision of a world in which universal human values displace the accumulated weight of history’s tyrannies. Michael Traber, to whom this book is dedicated, believed that there is only one way of over ... more

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