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African Cinema and Human Rights
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2019), x, 314 pp.
"Bringing theory and practice together, 'African Cinema and Human Rights' argues that moving images have a significant role to play in advancing the causes of justice and fairness. The contributors to this volume identify three key ways in which film can achieve these goals: documenting human rights
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Social Media and Politics in Africa: Democracy, Censorship and Security
Deep Insights
London: Zed Books (2019), xiii, 299 pp.
"Drawing on over a dozen new empirical case studies – from Kenya to Somalia, South Africa to Tanzania – this collection explores how rapidly growing social media use is reshaping political engagement in Africa. But while social media has often been hailed as a liberating tool, the book demonstra
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Entrepreneurial Journalism in Africa: Opportunities, Challenges and Risks for Media in the Digital Age. Learnings from a Conference Held by KAS Media Africa in Accra, Ghana, 16-19 September 2018
Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2019), 64 pp.
"[...] there seems to be an understanding that the media is important and that society needs the media. In October 2018, KAS Media Africa, therefore, gathered the CEOs of media houses, publishers and editors-in-chief from 16 different countries, both from Anglophone and Frenchspeaking Africa, in Acc
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The Fact-Checking Preferences of Africacheck.org's Audiences in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2019), 18 pp.
"Africa Check, the continent’s first independent fact-Checking organisation of which I was chief editor until July 2019, has itself expanded exponentially. The organisation –a non-profit mainly funded by large foundations– launched in 2012 in South Africa with a junior researcher and part-time
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Entertainment-Education in Radio: Three Case Studies from Africa
"This chapter presents the findings from three radio dramas in Africa (Nigeria, Burundi, and Burkina Faso) developed using Population Media Center’s unique entertainment-education methodology. Each case study is presented in detail, including background on the country or region where the program w
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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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Media and the Rights of the Child in Africa
Hershey: CyberTech Publishing (2019), 396 pp.
African Media Barometer: Nigeria 2019
Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2019), 60 pp.
L'audiovisuel africain et la capitalisme global
Politique Africaine, issue 153 (2019), pp. 7-159
"Ce dossier se concentre sur ces transformations plus récentes afin d’analyser leur impact sur l’économie et la politique de la production et de la distribution audiovisuelle en Afrique, tout en mettant en question les cadres théoriques et méthodologiques que nous adoptons en tant que cherch
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Social Media Dynamics in Boko Haram’s Terrorist Insurgence
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2019), 15 pp.
"This policy brief analyses the use of social media by different groups affected by Boko Haram’s terrorist insurgence, including the group itself. The rate, speed, spread and belief which information from social media commands has changed theatres of war and amplified terrorist threats. The Nigeri
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Media Reforms and Democratization in Emerging Democracies of Sub-Saharan Africa
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), 186 pp.
"This book examines the media reform processes and re-democratization projects of Ghana and Nigeria’s emerging democracies. It evaluates and critiques these reform processes, arguing that because of dependency approaches resulting from the transplanting of policy framework from the West into these
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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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Newsmaking Cultures in Africa: Normative Trends in the Dynamics of Socio-Political and Economic Struggles
Deep Insights
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xxv, 396 pp.
"The volume digs beneath the standardised and universalised veneer of professionalism to unpack routine practices and normative trends shaped by local factors, including the structural conditions of deprivation, entrenched political instability (and interference), pervasive neo-patrimonial governanc
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The Palgrave Handbook of Media and Communication Research in Africa
Deep Insights
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xxix, 497 pp.
"This handbook attempts to fill the gap in empirical scholarship of media and communication research in Africa, from an Africanist perspective. The collection draws on expert knowledge of key media and communication scholars in Africa and the diaspora, offering a counter-narrative to existing Wester
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Social Media and Conflict in Nigeria: A Lexicon of Hate Speech Terms
Washington, DC: PeaceTech Lab (2018), 40 pp.
"PeaceTech Lab developed a Lexicon of Hate Speech Terms in Nigeria, combining cutting-edge social media analysis with in-country expertise to identify both the terms likely to incite violence and their social and political context. The Lexicon, published in April 2018, also identifies alternative la
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How Violence Shapes Religion: Belief and Conflict in the Middle East and Africa
Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press (2018), x, 217 pp.
"Is there an inevitable global violent clash unfolding between the world's largest religions: Islam and Christianity? Do religions cause violent conflicts, or are there other factors at play? How can we make sense of increasing reports of violence between Christian and Muslim ethnic communities acro
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The State of ICT in In Nigeria 2018
Research ICT Africa (2018), 118 pp.
Investigative Journalism in Africa: An Exploratory Study of Non-Profit Investigative Journalism Organizations in Africa
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2018), 99 pp.
"This exploratory study [.] argues that in a continent where traditional media organizations are increasingly failing to hold power to account, not-for-profit organizations are leading by example, setting the agenda and constantly scrutinizing those in power. This study further looks at the motivati
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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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