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"A collection of research on digital media regulatory interventions across Africa, an area that has largely been overlooked in the literature. It considers a range of perspectives from scholars within and outside Africa on the subject, providing a compendium on digital media regulation on the contin
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The Handbook of Communication in Africa: Theory, Research, and Praxis
Oxford: Routledge (2026), 406 pp.
"The anthology showcases how communication scholarship can converse with on-the-ground initiatives and activism on the African continent. Rather than attempting to provide one homogeneous picture of a diverse continent, the handbook highlights the need to embrace an African worldview, regional varia
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Critiquing Generative AI in Africa's Media Ecosystems
London; New York: Routledge (2026), 215 pp.
"The book argues that as technology is a social construct reflecting existing power dynamics, those in the Global South, and in Africa in particular, are bound to be marginalised and have their knowledge, systems overlooked as the Global North dominates technological developments. The birth of AI ha
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Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives, Volume 3
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2026), xii, 372 pp.
"This third volume of Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives seeks to build upon the agenda set in motion by the first and second volumes, namely by: 1) offering an overview of key developments in citizen journalism since 2014, including the use of social media in crisis reporting; 2) providing a n
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The Routledge International Handbook of Trauma-Responsive Peacebuilding
Deep Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2026), xxxii, 541 pp.
"This comprehensive handbook offers a multidisciplinary exploration of research and practice at the intersection of trauma and peacebuilding. Highlighting case studies from diverse conflict contexts around the globe, the book offers conceptual reflections and practical illustrations of trauma-sensit
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Community Media, Sustainability and Crisis Lessons from Covid and Beyond
Bloomsbury Academic (2026), 214 pp.
"This original collection draws on a truly global set of perspectives, with authors from Asia, Europe, Africa, and both North and South America, who explore a range of ideological, political, economic, and cultural factors that shape how community media projects respond to crises. Contributors analy
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Disinformation: A Multi-Disciplinary Analysis
Deep Insights
Cham: Springer (2026), xvi, 654 pp.
"This volume provides a multidisciplinary analysis of disinformation and strategies for tackling it. Authored by a diverse group of scholars and experts, chapters in this volume are divided into three thematic sections. The first section delves into disinformation from various disciplinary perspecti
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Community Building through the Airwaves RefFM Radio Station and Young People in Kakuma
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 32, issue 2 (2025), pp. 261-280
"This paper examines the role that community radio can play in a refugee camp, with particular focus on community building and social cohesion among young people. The article introduces the experience of RefFM in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya. Findings from four focus groups with young refugees in Kaku
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Reconceptualising Multilingualism on African Radio: Language and Identity
Deep Insights
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), 262 pp.
"This book redefines multilingualism via the concept of radio in Africa. Africa presents unique challenges of lingual diversity which the media still struggles to accommodate, particularly when it comes to indigenous languages. Contributors argue that the linguistic realities of African radio reflec
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Navigating Trauma in African Journalism, Volume 2
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), xxiii, 262 pp.
"This second volume focuses on primary trauma experienced by journalists, with a particular focus on the gendered dimensions, as shared by female journalists and researchers. By focusing on female journalists’ firsthand encounters, the book explores the complex psychological, emotional, and profes
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African insights 2025: Citizen engagement, citizen power: Africans claim the promise of democracy
Accra: Afrobarometer (2025), 45 pp.
"Afrobarometer public-attitude surveys have been tracking citizen engagement on the continent for 25 years. This report, the second in an annual series on high-priority topics, draws on data spanning the past decade, including the latest round of nationally representative surveys in 39 countries, r
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African Media and Communication: Foundational Conversations
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
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Contemporary African Screen Worlds
Deep Insights
Durham: Duke University Press (2025), xvii, 356 pp.
"Contemporary African Screen Worlds brings together a new generation of African screen media scholars who explore and theorize the dynamic, interactive screen worlds that have arisen in contemporary Africa due to dramatic global changes in technology. Drawing on long-term fieldwork, extensive interv
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Posting “what” on social media? The (mis-)use of Facebook by young people in refugee camps
Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, volume 23, issue 1 (2025), pp. 134-147
"This paper aims to shed light on the threats that young people living in refugee camps face in their use of Facebook. While social media enable a participatory process of communication (Russo et al., 2008), which is based on the agency of the communicator and defined by their own cultural and moral
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Digital Surveillance in Africa: Power, Agency, and Rights
London: Zed Books; Bloomsbury Publishing (2025), xxii, 214 pp.
"Comparatively little is known about the millions of dollars now being spent on digital technologies for use in the illegal and illegitimate surveillance of citizens in Africa. In this open-access third volume of Bloomsbury s Digital Africa series, a broad range of African and European scholars and
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The power of humour
D+C: Development and Cooperation, issue 4 (2025), pp. 28-54
"All over the world, satirists courageously stand up for democratic values, often under extremely difficult conditions. Through their art, they create spaces for freedom and challenge authorities. On the other hand, extremists use humour for their political purposes too: They ridicule those who diss
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Unpacking the African media typology: Perspectives from journalists in Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda
International Communication Gazette, volume 87, issue 7 (2025), pp. 633-656
"The uniqueness of journalism cultures across African nations often highlights the inapplicability of normative, Western-centric theories. The newly proposed African media typology suggests that media systems in Africa would be best understood by thinking about them within the context of the type of
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Privacy Scorecard Review 2024: Rwanda, Tanzania, Mauritius, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda
Deep Insights
Kampala: Unwanted Witness (2025), 117 pp.
"The evolving digital landscape across East Africa and beyond underscores the critical need for robust data protection and privacy frameworks. While countries like Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Mauritius, and Zimbabwe have made significant progress in establishing legal and institutional mechanisms to sa
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Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2025
Deep Insights
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2025), 170 pp.
"• Engagement with traditional media sources such as TV, print, and news websites continues to fall, while dependence on social media, video platforms, and online aggregators grows. This is particularly the case in the United States where polling overlapped with the first few weeks of the new Trum
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