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Books for Schools: Improving Access to Supplementary Reading Materials in Africa
London: Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), Working Group on Books and Learning Materials (2000), xii, 200 pp.
"The aim of this study was to examine some of the models through which the school population in Africa gain access to supplementary reading material, and to reach some conclusions which methods work best, and in which circumstances, and to recommend strategies that are affordable and sustainable. Gi
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So This is Democracy? State of the Media in Southern Africa 1999
Windhoek: Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2000), 252 pp.
Neue Medien und Öffentlichkeiten: Politik und Tele-Kommunikation in Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika. Bd.1
Hamburg: Deutsches Übersee-Institut (2000), 451 pp.
"Die noch überwiegend kulturwissenschaftlich-spekulativ geführte Debatte über den Bedeutungszuwachs Alter und Neuer Medien in Asien, Afrika und Lateinamerika möchte der als Reader konzipierte Band durch empirische Fallstudien anreichern. Er umfasst Beiträge, "die sich unter Berücksichtigung re
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Entertainment-Education and HIV/AIDS Prevention: A Field Experiment in Tanzania
Journal of Health Communication, volume 5, issue 1, Supplement 1 (2000), pp. 81-100
"Entertainment-education is the process of designing and implementing an entertainment program to increase audience members' knowledge about a social issue, create more favorable attitudes, and change their overt behaviors regarding the social issue. The results of a field experiment in Tanzania to
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Public Libraries in Africa: A Report and Annotated Bibliography
Oxford: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) (2000), vi, 199 pp.
"The synthesis of literature quoted in the bibliography and the country reports portrays the public library movement in Africa as being very weak, with numerous problems regarding financial constraints, lack of human resources, outdated materials and poor use. The only sector of the African populati
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Gender Dynamics as Portrayed in Children's Books in Tanzania
In: Education and Social Change: Empirical Studies for the Improvement of Education in Eastern Africa
Children and Media: Image, Education, Participation
Göteborg: UNESCO International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media (1999), 483 pp.
"This yearbook compiles research findings on children and youth and media violence from the perspective of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The thematic focus of this yearbook is on what is being done to combat gratuitous media violence. It presents information on media educ
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Communicative Aspects of Participatory Video Projects: An Exploratory Study
Uppsala: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Rural Development Studies (1999), v, 79 pp.
"This exploratory study analyses the functions and implications of participatory video projects in rural development settings. The term ‘participatory video’ refers to a bundle of innovative usages of video technology which enjoy growing popularity in many corners of the world. After the first t
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African Theatre for Development: Art for Self-Determination
Bristol: intellect (1998), iv, 188 pp.
"This collection • reveals the dynamic position of the arts and culture in post-independent countries through changes in both influences and audiences; • shows African theatre to be about aesthetics and rituals, the sociological and the political, the anthropological and the historical; • exam
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The Media History of Tanzania
Ndanda: Ndanda Mission Press (1998), ix, 347 pp.
"The media industry in Tanzania has gone through four major phases. There were the German colonial media established to serve communication interests (and needs) of the German administration. By the same time, missionaries tried to fulfil their tasks by editing a number of papers. There were the med
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The Globalization of News
London: Sage (1998), 256 pp.
"This book overviews and reconsiders media organizations - the news agencies - which report and film the news for the press and broadcast media. Incorporating institutional, historical, political economic and cultural studies perspectives, the book: reviews agency provision of general news, video ne
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Educational Publishing in Global Perspective: Capacity Building and Trends
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: World Bank (1998), ix, 229 pp.
"This is something of a benchmark volume on the subject of publishing and book development in Africa (and in some other developing countries). It contains the proceedings, and reflects the thinking and the deliberations that emerged from a seminar on“Understanding the Educational Book Industry”,
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Sida Support to Telecom in Southern Africa
Stockholm: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (1997), 86 pp.
Press Freedom and Communication in Africa
Trenton, New Jers.; Asmara (ER): Africa World Press (1997), xx, 362 pp.
The Intra-African Book Support Scheme and Publishing and Library Supply in Kenya and Tanzania
New Review of Information and Library Research, issue 2 (1996), pp. 179-194
"The Intra-African Book Support Scheme (IABS) was set up in 1991 to support African readers and publishers through improving the distribution of African-published materials to libraries in Africa. The recipient-request led scheme was launched by African Books Collective and Book Aid International, a
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Who Rules the Airwaves? Broadcasting in Africa
London: Article 19; Index on Censorship (1995), 155 pp.
The Entertainment Programme of Ndanda Mission Press: Its Contribution to Swahili Literature in Tanzania
Matatu: Journal of African Culture and Society, issue 13-14 (1995), pp. 339-352
"Assesses the “entertainment” programme of this Christian publisher’s books in Kiswahili, and its contribution in promoting writing in African languages. Includes a bibliography of the Press's Kiswahili publications." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 200
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Women in Grassroots Communication: Furthering Social Change
Thousand Oaks: Sage (1994), xvii, 315 pp.
"How and to what extent are women in grassroots communication creating avenues for democratic communication and fostering social change? How is grassroots communication consolidating women's views and perspectives on gender subordination and social transformation? Women in Grassroots Communication b
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