"In a short, perturbed, and self-righteous preface, Oduko writes, "After having continual battles with students for shoddy reporting of their research and professional projects year-in, year-out, I realised that the only way to enforce a permanent ... ceasefire was to put down in black-and-white a reference material." Unfortunately, distracting typographical errors also abound in black-and-white in the preface, contents, and listings. The first four chapters focus on research proposals and qualitative and quantitative research methods. Users are advised to skip to chapters 6-11, indexes to communication research studies at Nigerian universities: respectively, Bayero University, Kano (1981-1990); the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (1980-1990); the University of Maiduguri (1986-1990); the University of Jos (1980-1990); and the University of Ibadan (1980-1990). Chapter 5 is a subject index of research. Samples of research projects range from "Press Freedom Under Military Regimes in Nigeria from 1966-1988" to "Appraisal of News Reporters' Dressing." In spite of its obvious and distracting drawbacks, this is a very rich source of information on the press in Africa. See also Communication Studies in Africa: A Bibliography (Nairobi, Kenya: African Council for Communication Education, 1994), an unannotated bibliography covering major issues in journalism in Africa from l950 to 1990." (Jo A. Cates: Journalism - a guide to the reference literature. Englewood, Col.: Libraries Unlimited, 2nd ed. 1997 nr. 86) more