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Télévision et santé: Conditions de production des émissions télévisées de santé à Kinshasa
Paris: L'Harmattan (2025), 138 pp.
"La production d’émissions de santé publique à la télévision à Kinshasa contribue à la sensibilisation, la diffusion et l’éducation de la population sur des thématiques et des informations sanitaires : les maladies transmissibles, la santé maternelle et infantile…
Cependant, pour l
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The African Book Industry: Trends, Challenges & Opportunities for Growth
Deep Insights
Paris: UNESCO (2025), 249 pp.
"Thanks to its outstanding literary talent and growing number of success stories, Africa’s book industry holds immense potential. Although the continent as a whole still relies heavily on imports and foreign publishing houses, it accounted for 5.4% of the global publishing market in 2023, generati
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The Sustainability Imperative in Media Development: A Critical Analysis of a Self-Serving Myth
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), xxiv, 396 pp.
"This book critically examines how the media assistance and broader "development" sectors have appropriated the catch-all concept of sustainability, originally rooted in economic and environmental fields, to suit their agendas. Analysing 289 project evaluations conducted globally between 1999 and 20
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Internet Shutdowns in Africa: Technology, Rights and Power
Deep Insights
London: Zed Books; Bloomsbury Publishing (2025), xiv, 286 pp.
"This open access book provides ten in-depth case studies of state-sponsored internet shutdowns across all regions of Africa. In so doing, it offers the first-ever comparative analysis of how African states use internet shutdowns as tools to close civic space, suppress opposition, and maintain power
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Tackling Disinformation, Information Manipulation and Interference in Four African Elections
Deep Insights
"In recent years, electoral disinformation has followed several recurring patterns globally, many of which were observed in the case studies analysed in this report. One prominent tactic is attacks on electoral integrity, where political actors spread false claims about voter registration, election
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Remembering Mass Atrocities: Perspectives on Memory Struggles and Cultural Representations in Africa
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xvii, 303 pp.
"This book explores how popular cultural artifacts, literary texts, commemorative practices and other forms of remembrances are used to convey, transmit and contest memories of mass atrocities in the Global South. Some of these historical atrocities took place during the Cold war. As such, this book
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Construction des identités des journalistes kinois dans le discours médiatique télévisuel: Analyse de l’émission de débat politique Club 50 de la chaîne Télé 50
Kinshasa: Université Catholique du Congo, Master Thesis (2024), vi, 232 pp.
"[...] L’objectif de ce mémoire de DEA était de démontrer la manière dont les journalistes construisent leurs identités lorsqu’ils analysent l’actualité de la semaine sur le plateau de Télé 50. Nous avons considéré l’émission ayant fait objet d’analyse, de discours médiatique.
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Balobaki: La démocratie congolaise à l’heure des réseaux sociaux, des fake news et de la manipulation
Paris: L'Harmattan, Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée (2024), 210 pp.
"Écrit par une journaliste rompue aux nouvelles technologies de l’information et de la communication, ce livre tente de revisiter l’usage et l’appropriation des réseaux sociaux par les Congolais pendant les deux derniers cycles électoraux (2018 et 2023) en République Démocratique du Congo
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Communication et gestion de crise électorale en RD Congo: Analyse des stratégies de communication de la CENI durant le cycle électoral de 2023
Revue Internationale du Chercheur, volume 5, issue 2 (2024), pp. 592-612
"En contexte d’élections hors pair comme en 2023 en RDC, on s’attendrait à une contestation populaire des résultats. Mais le contraire s’est avéré vrai. Comment expliquer ce paradoxe ? A travers une approche herméneutique, sous-tendue par la recherche documentaire et l’observation dire
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Digital Disinformation in Africa: Hashtag Politics, Power and Propaganda
London: Zed Books (2024), xiv, 242 pp.
"In an era when hashtag campaigns like #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter capture global attention for victims of injustice, politicians and corporations are now spending billions employing Cambridge Analytica-type consultancies to manufacture disinformation - employing trolls, cyborgs and bots to disrupt
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Résurgence du Mouvement du 23 mars : Quel avenir pour la Région des Grands Lacs africains ?
Goma: Éditions de Pole Institute (2023), 331 pp.
"Ce numéro porte un regard critique sur la crise que traverse actuellement la Province du Nord Kivu, et la RDC en général, à cause de la nouvelle guerre imposée au pays par le mouvement rebelle M23. Connaissant une période sécuritaire sombre qui y a motivé l’instauration d’un État de si
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"In 2023, Advancing Rights in Southern Africa (ARISA) through its consortium partner, Internews, undertook the most comprehensive review yet of laws affecting media practice and the freedom of expression, including cyber laws, penal codes, constitutions and acts of parliament, in the sixteen Souther
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Cryptopolitics: Exposure, Concealment, and Digital Media
New York: Berghahn (2023), vii, 245 pp.
"Hidden information, double meanings, double-crossing, and the constant processes of encoding and decoding messages have always been important techniques in negotiating social and political power dynamics. Yet these tools, "cryptopolitics," are transformed when used within digital media. Focusing on
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Film Practice in the Context of War in Greater North Kivu Region of the Democratic Republic of Congo: The Film Message as a Tool for Peace
Nairobi: Daystar University, Doctoral Thesis (2023), xii, 348 pp.
"Greater North Kivu is a region in the East of the DRC characterized by an unending socio-cultural and political crisis that has brought about insecurity, war, massacres, and land conflicts since 1996. Efforts to resolve this war crisis to restore justice and peace have not been successful. The aim
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Representing Gender-Based Violence: Global Perspectives
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xvii 314 pp.
"This book focuses on the politics, ethics and stereotypical pitfalls of representational practices surrounding Gender-Based Violence (GBV) from a global perspective. The originality of the volume is linked to its cross-disciplinary perspective as the topic of representing GBV is analyzed across the
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The Palgrave Handbook of Religion, Peacebuilding, and Development in Africa
Deep Insights
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xxi, 832 pp.
"This Handbook explores the ways in which religion among the African people has been applied in situations of conflict and violence to contribute to sustainable peace and development. It analyzes how peacebuilding inspired and enabled by religion serves as the foundation for sustainable development
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Mainstreaming communication of adaptation to climate change: Some initiatives from Central Africa
Journal of Environmental Media, volume 3, issue 1 (2022), pp. 11-32
"A survey in Cameroon revealed that journalists are faced with some challenges (such as lack of training and lack of resource persons) in covering environment topics, especially those related to forest and climate change adaptation. In order to address these challenges and contribute to the improvem
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Borderland: Decolonizing the Words of War
Oxford University Press (2022), x, 278 pp.
"In an era marked by an unprecedented refugee crisis and ongoing, seemingly unending, borderland conflicts, foreign correspondents could play a pivotal role in helping create a global public sphere that incorporates the perspectives of those who are most effected by ongoing resource-fueled wars—an
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