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Televisual Pluralism in West Africa: State of Affairs

Mactar Silla

Dakar: Panos West Africa (2006), 192 pp.

"Instead of limiting ourselves to an enumeration of the obstacles to pluralism, we tried to push the analysis further, proposing draft solutions to problems raised, in a realistic way. The democratic debate today can not be limited to the political arena only, by turning up one’s nose at the debat ... more

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People, Land and Water: Participatory Development Communication for Natural Resource Management
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Guy Bessette (ed.)

London; Ottawa: Earthscan; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2006), 313 pp.

"This book presents conceptual and methodological issues related to the use of communication in order to facilitate participation among stakeholders in natural resource management (NRM) initiatives. It also presents a collection of chapters that focus on participatory development communication and N ... RM, particularly in Asia and Africa. There are many approaches and practices in development communication, and most of them have been implemented in the field of environment and natural resource management. But, even when considering participatory approaches in NRM, communication is often limited to information dissemination activities that mainly use printed materials, radio programmes and educational videos to send messages, explain technologies or illustrate activities. These approaches, with their strengths and weaknesses, have been well documented. Participatory development communication takes another perspective. This form of communication facilitates participation in a development initiative identified and selected by a community, with or without the external assistance of other stakeholders. The terminology has been used in the past by a number of scholars to stress the participatory approach of communication in contrast with its more traditional diffusion approach. Others refer to similar approaches as participatory communication for development, participatory communication or communication for social change. In this publication, participatory development communication is considered to be a planned activity that is based on participatory processes and on media and interpersonal communication. This communication facilitates dialogue among different stakeholders around a common development problem or goal. The objective is to develop and implement a set of activities that contribute to a solution to the problem or the realization of a goal, and which support and accompany this initiative. This kind of communication requires moving from a focus on information and persuasion to facilitating exchanges between different stakeholders to address a common problem, to develop a concrete initiative for experimenting with possible solutions, and to identify the partnerships, knowledge and materials needed to support these solutions." (Preface) more

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Comparing Media from Around the World

Robert McKenzie

Ian Werner; Nabil Dajani (contrib.)

Boston: Pearson (2006), 372 pp.

"This book discusses the fundamental elements of media systems and shows how they are used in eight sample countries. Unlike other books, it is organized according to media elements, with comparative discussions of all eight countries within each chapter. This helps readers make connections and comp ... more

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Auslandsmärkte als Chance: Die deutsche ITK-Wirtschaft

Berlin: Bundesverband Informationswirtschaft, Telekommunikation und neue Medien (BITKOM); Auswärtiges Amt (2006), 498 pp.

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African Media Development Initiative: Ghana. Research Findings and Conclusions

Samuel Kafewo

London: BBC World Service Trust (2006), 66 pp.

"The media sector in Ghana has witnessed some dramatic, positive changes over the past few years, made possible by the promulgation of the 1992 democratic Constitution and the election in 2000 of President Kufuor’s government. All interviewees agreed that democratisation and the repeal of the Crim ... more

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Religious Remediations: Pentecostal Views in Ghanaian Video-Movies

Birgit Meyer

Postscripts, volume 1, issue 2-3 (2005), pp. 155-181

"This article addresses the interface of video-films and Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity in Ghana. This interface, it is argued, needs to be examined from a position that transcends the confines of film studies and religious studies and leaves behind a secularist perspective on the relationship ... more

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The Press and Political Culture in Ghana

Jennifer Hasty

Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2005), 189 pp.

"Hasty decodes the styles and uncovers the strategies that characterize Ghana's major printed news media, focusing on the differences between news generated by the state and news that comes from private sources. Not only are the angles radically different, but so are ways of gathering the news, assi ... more

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Community Television for the Poor: A Scoping Study. Final Technical Report

S. Batchelor, N. Scott, G. Eastwick

Reading; London: Gamos; Department for International Development (DFID) (2005), 90 pp.

"The research was informed by desk research, two technical reviews and a stakeholder consultation in four countries – Honduras, South Africa, Tanzania and Ghana. It proved very timely as it contributed significantly to ongoing consultations in South Africa and Tanzania. In South Africa ICASA annou ... more

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With the Support of Multitudes: Using Strategic Communication to Fight Poverty Through PRSPs
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Masud Mozammel, Sina Odugbemi

Washington, DC; London: World Bank, Development Communication Division; Department for International Development (DFID) (2005), 144 pp.

"This publication has been produced in order to improve the chances of success of Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRSs) in two ways: 1. To show policymakers how strategic communication can help them to achieve some of their objectives in formulating and executing effective Poverty Reduction Strategies ... more

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Changing Public-Private Partnerships in the African Book Sector

Paul Brickhill, Chris Chirwa, Bengt Lindahl

Oxford: African Books Collective (2005), xiv, 264 pp.

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Tuning In: An Inventory of Rural FM Radio in Ghana

Nikki Whaites

Guelph: University of Guelph, Master Thesis (2005), 151 pp.

"This study is an exploratory analysis of FM Radio in Sub-Sarahan Africa with Ghana as the single case study. It seeks to describe the current situation of rural radio in the country including levels of rural development programming and community participation. Analysis focuses on the three main sec ... more

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Indigenous Communication in Africa: Concept, Application and Prospects
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Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh (ed.)

Accra: Ghana Universities Press (2005), xvi, 282 pp.

"This book argues that indigenous modes of communication - for example the oral tradition, drama, indigenous entertainment forms, cultural modes and local language radio - are essential to the societies within which they exist and which create them; and that coupled with newer, or modern forms of co ... more

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Gender and ICTs for Development: A Global Sourcebook

Minke Valk, Sarah Cummings, Henk Van Dam (eds.)

Amsterdam; Oxford: Royal Tropical Institute (KIT); Oxfam (2005), 143 pp.

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Régulation des communications électroniques à l'heure de la convergence: Enjeux, état des lieux et perspectives en Afrique de l'Ouest et du Centre

Diana Senghor (ed.)

Dakar: Panos Afrique de l'Ouest (2005), 102 pp.

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Speaking African on the Radio: Impact Assessment Survey of FM / Community Radios Using African Languages in Ghana, Mali and Senegal

Kwesi Kwaa Prah

Cape Town: Center for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS) (2005), 77 pp.

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Mediating Religion and Film in a Post-Secular World

Stephen Hughes, Birgit Meyer (eds.)

Postscripts, volume 1, issue 2-3 (2005), pp. 149-374

"This special issue seeks to explore the common ground shared by practices of filmmaking and religious institutions located within postcolonial settings and increasingly linked in global infrastructures. The articles presented here converge in combining theoretical reflections about the interface of ... film and religion with specific examples or historical and ethnographic cases. Written by authors with backgrounds in film studies, religious studies, and anthropology, the contributions to this multidisciplinary issue are based on two common, more or less explicit, points of departure. One concerns the realization that the actual entanglement of religion and film highlights the limitations of a modernist view proclaiming the retreat of religion from the public sphere as an inevitable consequence of the processes of modernization and secularization. In our perspective, the interface of film and religion can more fruitfully be addressed from a postsecularist perspective, which seeks to overcome the unproductive, teleological, and normative understanding that religion should be confined to the private sphere. As the contributions to this issue show, in contexts as diverse as India, Ghana, Nigeria, Brazil, and postsocialist Poland, the accessibility of modern mass media in conjunction with the politics of neo-liberalism actually facilitate the proliferation of religion in the public sphere. This implies not only that religions may assume a strong public presence, but also that religion and entertainment are increasingly difficult to distinguish from each other. For example, as Maria José de Abreu shows, the Catholic Charismatic priest, pop-singer, and film actor Marcello Rossi embodies this convergence. Not only has film become a prime medium of religious expression, films also often address a religious audience which in turn is seen to authorize audiovisual representations of the transcendent or divine as truthful and authentic. Ravi Vasudevan argues here how Hindu devotional films represented their own religious spectators as a kind of selfauthenticating redefinition of the social with the divine. Whether this authorization actually occurs, as the articles by Birgit Meyer on Ghanaian pentecostally-oriented video-films and by Matthias Krings on Hausa videos in Northern Nigeria show, is a matter of an intense politics and aesthetics of persuasion that may or may not be successful. While in our era of globalizing media the condition of the possibility for religion to assume a public role appears to depend on the successful accommodation of filmic media, the incorporation of such media also threatens to transform religious practice into a form of mass entertainment. The fear of being made subject to superficial visual regimes, as the articles by Mattijs van de Port and Marleen de Witte highlight, may lead religious practitioners to be highly suspicious about the formats and styles that go along with audiovisual mass media. In addition to this postsecular stance, the articles presented in this special issue also share a commitment to moving beyond the assumption of an ontological difference between religion as a domain of the transcendent, on the one hand, and film as a domain of neutral technology, on the other. In this regard, we prefer the notion of mediation as a more open-ended, non-determinist solution for exploring the multiple relationships between religion and film. For example, once religion is understood as a practice of mediation, media appear not as alien to the realm of religion, but as an inalienable element on which any attempt to access and render present the transcendental ultimately depends. By using “mediation” we hope to shift our emphasis away from religion and film as abstract substantialized essences towards a non-dualist emphasis on the relational and contingent practices in which film and religion overlap and engage each other. Brent Plate, in his contribution to this issue, coins the term “religious cinematics” to stress explicitly this point where religion and film merge through the embodied practices of the human senses." (Guest Editors’ Preface, pages 150-151) more

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Ghana Broadcasting Study: A Report for the Government of Ghana and the World Bank

Washington, DC: World Bank (2005), vi, 102 pp.

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Language, the Mass Media and Democracy in Ghana

Kwesi Yankah

Accra: Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS) (2004), 26 pp.

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Die Erotik des Bösen: Mami Water als "christlicher" Dämon in ghanaischen und nigerianischen Videos

Birgit Meyer

In: Africa screams: Das Böse in Kino, Kunst und Kult

Tobias Wendl (ed.)

Wuppertal: Peter Hammer Verlag (2004), pp. 199-209

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Mondialisation et technologies de la communication en Afrique

Annie Chéneau-Loquay (dir.)

Paris: Karthala (2004), 322 pp.

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People, Land and Water: Participatory Development Communication for Natural Resource Management
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With the Support of Multitudes: Using Strategic Communication to Fight Poverty Through PRSPs
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Indigenous Communication in Africa: Concept, Application and Prospects
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