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Effect of a Mass Radio Campaign on Family Behaviours and Child Survival in Burkina Faso: A Repeated Cross-Sectional, Cluster-Randomised Trial

Sophie Sarrassat, Nicolas Meda, Badola Hermann, Moctar Ouedrogo, Henri Someet al.
Lancet Global Health, volume 6, issue 3: e330-341 (2018), pp. 330-341
"Media campaigns can potentially reach a large audience at relatively low cost but, to our knowledge, no randomised controlled trials have assessed their effect on a health outcome in a low-income country. We aimed to assess the effect of a radio campaign addressing family behaviours on all-cause po ... more
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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

Amy Mitchell, Katy Simmons, Katerina Eva Matsa, Laura Silver
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 ... more
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Journalism Aid: Country of Origin and Influences on Beneficiary Perceptions and Practices

Gilbert K. M. Tietaah, Abena A. Yeboah-Banin, Sarah Akrofi-Quarcoo, Fidelis Y. Sesenu
African Journalism Studies, volume 39, issue 2 (2018), pp. 90-103
"A sub-text in the discourse on international development assistance is the argument that aid is not necessarily a beneficent, or sustainable, solution to the development needs of African countries. This argument raises a conceptual conundrum with respect to the many training programmes and fellowsh ... more
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African Digital Media Review (3)

African Journalism Studies, volume 39, issue 1 (2018), pp. 1-128
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Black / Africana Communication Theory

Kehbuma Langmia (ed.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xxix, 345 pp.
"Most Western-driven theories do not have a place in Black communicative experience, especially in Africa. Many scholars interested in articulating and interrogating Black communication scholarship are therefore at the crossroads of either having to use Western-driven theory to explain a Black commu ... more
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Global Photographies: Memory – History – Archives

Sissy Helff, Stefanie Michels (eds.)
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2018), 208 pp.
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Community Radio in Rural Development in Northeastern Ghana: Experiences of Radio Gaakii in the Saboba District

Amadu Mohammed Faisal, Amin Alhassan
International Research Journal of Social Sciences, volume 7, issue 5 (2018), pp. 1-12
"This research paper draws on the theory of development communication to explore the relationship between community radio broadcast and community development in Northern Ghana. It traces the history of development communication practice in Ghana and its application in Ghana's rural development effor ... more
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New Media and the Mediatisation of Religion: An African Perspective

Gabriel Faimau, William O. Lesitaokana (eds.)
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2018), xi, 173 pp.
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Information Needs Assessment: Gao, Mali

Lucas Destrijckes et al.
Washington, DC et al.: Internews (2018), 63 pp.
"This study analyses if people on the move in the northeastern region of Mali, more specifically in the city of Gao, have accurate information at their disposal. It maps information needs and habits of migrant communities in Gao to better understand how these individuals and communities receive info ... more
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Commodification of Development Programming on Radio in Northern Ghana

Amin Alhassan, Felix Odartey-Wellington, Amadu Mohammed Faisal
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 ... more
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How Has Media Programming Supported Polio Eradication?

Sanjib Saha
London: BBC Media Action (2018), 11 pp.
"Since 2013, BBC Media Action has been working closely with Unicef to support polio eradication. Through mass media programming – radio magazine shows and drama, and radio and TV public service announcements (PSAs) – it has sought to break down barriers to immunising against polio and other chil ... more
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Médias, mondialisation et diversité culturelle: Le cas de l'Afrique subsaharienne

Caroline Pachecus
Paris: L'Harmattan (2018), 242 pp.
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"To give publicity to our thoughts": Journale asiatischer und afrikanischer Christen um 1900 und die Entstehung einer transregionalen indigen-christlichen Öffentlichkeit

Klaus Koschorke, Adrian Hermann, Frieder Ludwig, Ciprian Burlacioiu (eds.)
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag (2018), 378 pp.
"Gegen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts begannen indigen-christliche Eliten in Asien und Afrika, sich stärker in der kolonialen Öffentlichkeit ihrer Länder zu artikulieren. Sie gründeten ihre eigenen Journale, kritisierten Missstände in Gesellschaft und Missionskirchen, beteiligten sich an sozialen Be ... more
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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

Umaru A. Pate, Lai Oso, Abubakar Jibril
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 ... more
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Setting the Agenda on Development: A Content Analysis of How Senegalese Newspapers Report on Local and Foreign Aid

Jeslyn Lemke
African Journalism Studies, volume 39, issue 2 (2018), pp. 61-74
"The debate on the effectiveness of foreign aid in the economies of sub-Saharan Africa often overlooks how the local journalists of a region report on aid. This study is a quantitative content analysis assessing how newspapers in Senegal write about different forms of aid received within the country ... more
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Investigative Journalism in Africa: An Exploratory Study of Non-Profit Investigative Journalism Organizations in Africa

Ntibinyane Ntibinyane
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 ... more
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Creating Mobile Health Solutions for Behaviour Change: A Study of Eight Services in the MNutrition Initiative Portfolio

Kim Viljoen, Tobias Wacker
London: GSMA; Altai Consulting (2018), 50 pp.
"The GSMA mHealth programme, under the mNutrition Initiative funded by UK aid (the UK Department for International Development, DFID), has been working with mobile network operators (MNOs) and other mobile and health sector stakeholders to support the launch and scale of mobile health (mHealth) valu ... more
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La radio en Afrique au XXIe siècle: Mutations et enjeux

Étienne Damome (dir.)
RadioMorphoses, issue 3 (2018), pp. 2-79
"Introduite dès les années 1930 sur les terres africaines et durablement ancrée au lendemain de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, la radio s’est peu à peu adaptée à l’environnement culturel, social et politique africain. Ses évolutions successives ont suivi la courbe des mutations culturelles ... more
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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 ... more
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Digital Platforms for Agro-Advisory and Business Service Delivery: Lessons from Scaling-up of AgroTech in Ghana

Cecil Osei, Alfred Yeboah, Francis Arthur, Emmanuel Agbedanu, Sybil Chidiac
Grameen Foundation; Farmradio International (2018), 15 pp.
"Grameen Foundation, Farm Radio International and other partners implemented the project “Achieving Impact at Scale” from 2015 to 2018 18. The objective of the project is to test the scale up of AgroTech, an ICT platform, in the delivery of agricultural extension and agribusiness advisory servic ... more