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Radio Redux: Audience Participation and the Reincarnation of Radio for Development in Africa
Journal of Developing Societies, volume 35, issue 2 (2019), pp. 282-302
"Along with the valorization of “beneficiary” participation in development praxis, contemporary communication scholarship has tended toward internet-enabled technologies and applications. This study breaks ranks with the implicit loss of faith in the capacity of the so-called legacy media, and r
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Anti-Corruption Tabloid Journalism in Africa
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), x, 219 pp.
"Defining tabloid journalism practice as an infotainment genre, the book examines corruption exposure by tabloids in Arabic, Portuguese and Francophone speaking countries across Africa, making it a unique addition to the field. In doing so, it also builds an understanding of the evolution of anti-co
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Journalism and Journalism Education in Developing Countries
Deep Insights
Manipal, Kanartaka: Manipal Universal Press (2019), vi, 250 pp.
"This book provides an international perspective on the different aspects of journalism – the situation in which journalists work, their working conditions, educational backgrounds, struggles and successes. It is aimed at an international public interested in the field of journalism and freedom of
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Pooling Aid Sector Demand for Digital Public Goods: Lessons from Sizing Mobile Channel Demand in Sub-Saharan Africa
Digital Impact Alliance (dial); Altai Consulting (2019), 38 pp.
"We started by performing fieldwork in five countries, covering the four main SSA regions: the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda. We then conducted 116 interviews across 78 organizations, covering the overall ecosystem: mobile network operators (MNOs), aggreg
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Transnational Media: Concepts and Cases
Newark: Wiley (2019), ix, 246 pp.
"Transnational Media: Concepts and Cases provides a clear and engaging overview of media communication from a global and a region-based perspective. Rather than focusing on just complex theories and industry-specific analyses, this unique book offers an inclusive, comparative approach to both journa
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Writing the New Nation in a West African Borderland: Ablode Safui (the Key to Freedom)
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2019), cv, 243 pp.
"This book rethinks the history of decolonisation and new nationhood in the Ghana-Togo borderlands, and speaks to an increasingly urgent debate on the production of knowledge about Africa. It does this through the close reading, translation and analysis of a unique primary source - a newspaper entit
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Continuity in Change: A History of Radio for National Development
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 17, issue 2 (2019), pp. 217-234
"In this article, we assert and demonstrate a particular and enduring adaptability of radio in tandem with observable temporal shifts in development communication theory and practice in Africa. Specifically, we use the historical research method to explore and explain the ideological discourses, pol
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The Media and Participatory Governance in Ghana: Trends and Challenges
Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) (2019), 15 pp.
"Drawing on available data and literature, this paper begins with an introduction on the media landscape in Ghana and explains how the media have contributed to promoting participatory and accountable governance. It further discusses the trends, barriers of media and governance in Ghana and makes ke
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Status of Training and Research in Reporting Conflict, Peace Journalism and Safety Education in English Speaking West Africa: The Cases of Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone
Journalism Education, volume 6, issue 2 (2018), pp. 28-36
"This paper examines the teaching of conflict-sensitive reporting, safety education and peace journalism in the curricula of institutions offering mass communication/journalism programmes in three English speaking countries of West Africa: Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone. It assesses the status of r
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Strengthening Police and Media Relations for the Safety of Journalists and Peaceful, Free and Fair Elections in West Africa
Accra; Copenhagen: Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA); International Media Support (IMS) (2018), 42 pp.
"The relationship between the media and security agencies, including those in the law enforcement and intelligence services, has always been a delicate one. In the West African context, this relationship is often characterized by frequent clashes, arising from a somewhat startling inability of eithe
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Mapping Digital Rights and Online Freedom of Expression in East, West and Southern Africa
Media Legal Defence Initiative (MLDI) (2018), 100 pp.
"This report maps the current landscape in respect of digital rights and online freedom of expression in East, West and Southern Africa. It looks at the trends regarding law and policy developments, as well as recent litigation, within these regions. The report focuses on 18 countries – 6 per regi
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The State of Digital Publishing: Facts and Figures from Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria
San Francisco: Worldreader (2018), 25 pp.
"At a glance, there are a number of societal and infrastructural barriers to overcome before digital publishing has a huge market in these three countries. However, there are certainly opportunities at hand, particularly when it comes to testing and vetting content, where digital books can save publ
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Publics Globally Want Unbiased News Coverage, But Are Divided on Whether Their News Media Deliver: Deep Political Divides in Many Nations on Satisfaction with News Media
Pew Research Center (2018), 54 pp.
"Publics around the world overwhelmingly agree that the news media should be unbiased in their coverage of political issues, according to a new Pew Research Center survey of 38 countries. Yet, when asked how their news media are doing on reporting different political issues fairly, people are far mo
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Community Access and Participation in Community Radio Broadcast: Case of Radio Gaakii, Ghana
Journal of Development and Communication Studies, volume 5, issue 2 (2018), pp. 85-102
"This paper draws on the theory of participatory development communication to understand the nature and philosophy of community participation in development processes. It explored the symbiotic relationship between Carpentier (2011) and Arnstein’s (1969) theses on participation to propose four maj
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Pentecostal Forms Across Religious Divides: Media, Publicity, and the Limits of an Anthropology of Global Pentecostalism
Religions, volume 9, issue 217 (2018), 13 pp.
"Scholars of Pentecostalism have usually studied people who embrace it, but rarely those who do not. I suggest that the study of global Pentecostalism should not limit itself to Pentecostal churches and movements and people who consider themselves Pentecostal. It should include the repercussions of
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"The 43 country reports included in this year’s Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) capture the different experiences and approaches in setting up community networks across the globe. They show that key ideas, such as participatory governance systems, community ownership and skills transfe
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African Digital Media Review (3)
African Journalism Studies, volume 39, issue 1 (2018), pp. 1-128
The Daughters of St Paul in Africa 1958-2015
Nairobi: Paulines Publications Africa (2018), 352 pp.
Commodification of Development Programming on Radio in Northern Ghana
African Journalism Studies, volume 39, issue 2 (2018), pp. 75-89
"This article discusses the commodification of development programming such as news and other content in the Ghanaian media space. It uses the case of two NGOs operating in the Northern Region to examine how development programming is transmitted via FM radio stations in the region. Using in-depth i
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A Baseline Study on the Media Coverage of Inequality Issues in Ghana
Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) (2018), 29 pp.
"The study found that the media gives only 12% coverage to inequality issues in Ghana. Thus, across the 22 media outlets, 783 stories focused on inequalities out of a total of 6,477 stories monitored. It was also observed the media’s attention is largely focused on social inequalities overlooking
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