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Social Media and Politics in Africa: Democracy, Censorship and Security
Deep Insights

Maggie Dwyer, Thomas Molony (eds.)
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 ... more
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Per Diem Payments as a form of Censorship and Control: The Case of Guinea-Bissau’s Journalism

Susana Sampaio-Dias
Journalism Studies, volume 20, issue 16 (2019), pp. 2349-2365
"This article discusses the habit of politicians paying journalists per diem rates in exchange for media coverage. Although bribery and money incentives have been studied as practices that compromise the ethics of journalism in several African countries, this paper researches Guinea-Bissau as an exa ... more
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Impact Report 2017-2019: Make-IT in Africa. Successfully Promoting Tech Entrepreneurship and the Innovation Ecosystems of Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria and Tunisia

Bonn; Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2019), 71 pp.
"Make-IT started as a "laboratory" for new types of partnerships between development organisations, business, finance and entrepreneurs. After 2 years of implementation experience, we can proudly say that we have successfully combined the strengths of the public and private sectors to promote digita ... more
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Insights from the Entertainment & Media Outlook: 2019-2023. An African Perspective. Getting Personal: Putting the me in Entertainment & Media

Vicki Myburgh, Charles Stuart
PWC, 10th annual ed. (2019), 189 pp.
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Video Games and the Global South

Phillip Penix-Tadsen (ed.)
Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University; ETC Press (2019), viii, 290 pp.
"The innovative research in Video Games and the Global South focuses on a range of topics including art games and serious games from the global south, postcolonialism and cultural representation, player communities, software modification (modding), intercultural communication online, racism and sexi ... more
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An Examination of Journalistic Codes of Ethics in Anglophone West Africa

Michael Yao Wodui Serwornoo
Journal of Media Ethics, volume 34, issue 1 (2019), pp. 29-40
"Ethical scandals involving journalists in English-speaking West African countries have been documented to include conflict of interest, freebies, intellectual theft, deception, carelessness, kowtowing to advertisers and politicians, use of dubious evidence, and outright bias. This study explores ho ... more
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Cultural and Moral Implications of Soli and its Effects on Journalism in Northern Ghana

Amin Alhassan, Muhammed Abdulai
Journal of Media Ethics, volume 34, issue 1 (2019), pp. 41-51
"The issue of soli (Soli is a Ghanaian journalistic parlance referring to the practice where journalists accept money or other forms of gifts as sitting allowance after covering an event.) or content-influencing gifts and its relations to the professional practice of journalist and other media worke ... more
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The Entertaining Way to Behavioral Change: Fighting HIV with MTV

Abhijit Banerjee, Eliana La Ferrara, Victor Orozco-Olvera
Washington, DC: World Bank Group (2019), 45 pp.
"This paper tests the effectiveness of an entertainment education television series, MTV Shuga, aimed at providing information and changing attitudes and behaviors related to HIV/AIDS. Using a simple model, the paper shows that “edutainment” can work through an individual or a social channel. Th ... more
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Ghana Top Shows on TV & Radio, 2018

Geo Poll (2019), 7 pp.
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Migrants as Messengers: The Impact of Peer-To-Peer Communication on Potential Migrants in Senegal. Impact Evaluation Report

Felipe Alexander Dunsch, Jasper Tjaden, William Quiviger
Geneva: International Organization for Migration (IOM) (2019), vi, 70 pp.
"The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has conducted a scientifically rigorous impact evaluation to assess the impact of the Migrants as Messengers (MaM) campaign in Dakar, Senegal. MaM was a peer-to-peer awareness-raising campaign made by migrants for migrants and implemented in Senega ... more
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The Fact-Checking Preferences of Africacheck.org's Audiences in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa

Anim van Wyk
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 ... more
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Infographics, New Media and Media Consumption Habits in Nigeria

Chineme Carl Okafor
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2019), 52 pp.
"This study engages in a comparative analysis of the history, importance, and benefits of infographics, in general, and in the media, in particular in Nigeria. It looks at the history of the Nigerian press, as well as the scale of use of infographics and new media tools in communicating business sto ... more
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Content Analysis of the Reflection of Media Literacy in Communication Curricula of Select Nigerian Universities

Elizabeth Titilayo Aduloju
World of Media: Journal of Russian Media and Journalism Studies, issue 3 (2019), pp. 66-85
"This study analysed the media-literacy content in curricula of nine select universities in Africa’s most populous nation: Nigeria. Some key findings revealed that: (a) media-literacy courses proper were not on the curricula; (b) media-literacy-related courses, which stood as proxies, accounted fo ... more
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Civil Society and Media Whole-of-Intermediate Result (IR) Evaluation

Monrovia: USAID; Social Impact Inc. (2019), ix, 107 pp.
"This report presents findings and recommendations from the whole-of-Intermediate Result (IR) evaluation of activities generated from the USAID Civil Society and Media Project Appraisal Document (PAD) created in 2015. The evaluation included two current activities—Liberia Accountability and Voice ... more
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Transnational Media: Concepts and Cases

Suman Mishra, Rebecca Kern-Stone (eds.)
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 ... more
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Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond
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Allan Thompson (ed.)
Waterloo, Ontario: Centre for International Governance Innovation (2019), x, 637 pp.
"The book includes an extensive section on the echoes of Rwanda, which looks at the cases of Darfur, the Central African Republic, Myanmar, and South Sudan, while the impact of social media as a new actor is examined through chapters on social media use by the Islamic State and in Syria and in other ... more
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Writing the New Nation in a West African Borderland: Ablode Safui (the Key to Freedom)

Holiday Kamedja
Kate Skinner (transl.)
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 ... more
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Media and the Rights of the Child in Africa

Olusola Oyero (ed.)
Hershey: CyberTech Publishing (2019), 396 pp.
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How African Economies Work: A Guide to Business and Economics Reporting
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Nixon K. Kariithi (ed.)
Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2019), 220 pp.
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Assessment of Studio Kalangou's Impact on Women's Rights and Empowerment in Niger

Emma Heywood
Fondation Hirondelle; University of Sheffield (2019), 45 pp.
"This study was conducted between April 2018 and July 2019 with the aim of assessing the impact of Studio Kalangou’s radio broadcasts on women’s rights and empowerment in Niger. It comprised: A content analysis of approximately 60 hours of radio programmes broadcast in 2018 by Studio Kalangou in ... more