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Poverty Reduction with Strategic Communication: Moving from Awareness Raising to Sustained Citizen Participation

Masud Mozammel (ed.)
Washington, DC: World Bank, Communication for Governance and Accountability Program (CommGAP) (2011), x, 92 pp.
"This publication updates a 2005 review of communication in Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRS). It includes four country case studies (Ghana, Tanzania, Moldova, and Nepal) and a regional analysis of Latin America and the Caribbean. It explores how the use of strategic communication has expanded beyo ... more
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Young People, Computers and the Internet in Niger

Gado Alzouma
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 3, issue 2 (2011), pp. 277-292
"This article explores how computers and the Internet are represented among young, educated people in Niger and the social expectations that are attached to their use. It argues that pre-existing social and economic conditions play an important role in shaping the meanings associated with these devi ... more
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Atlas de l'Afrique

Danielle Ben Yahmed (ed.)
Paris: Éditions du Jaguar, 4. éd. (2011), 255 pp.
"L'Afrique dans son ensemble : 28 chapitres présentant le continent par rapport au reste du monde. Tous les aspects de la géographie physique : relief, hydrographie, climat, végétation, et aussi l'histoire, les religions, les langues. L'Afrique par régions. Les cartes de localisation avec visua ... more
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The State of Media Freedom in Africa

African Communication Research (St. Augustine University Mwanza), volume 4, issue 2 (2011), pp. 221-388
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From Watchdog to Lapdog? The Impact of Government Intimidation on the Public Watchdog Performance of Peace Media in Processes of Democratisation

London: London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Media and Communications (2011), 36 pp.
"The article explores the case of Radio Ndeke Luka, a UN-backed peace radio in the Central African Republic. It investigates whether government intimidation influences the radio’s public watchdog role and, if so, in what ways and to what extent, and whether and how the support of a European NGO an ... more
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Guinea: Media and Telecoms Landscape Guide

infoasaid (2011), 69 pp.
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Cinema in Ghana: History, Ideology and Popular Culture

Vitus Nanbigne
Bergen: University of Bergen (2011), 303 pp.
"Cinema in Ghana- History, Ideology and Popular Culture, is an attempt to start a dialogue about national cinema in Ghana. The primary purpose of this thesis is not simply to provide a historical account of cinema in Ghana, but rather to question and dialogue with the history in order to locate the ... more
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Equivocal Resonances: Islamic Revival and Female Radio 'Preachers' in Urban Mali

Dorothea E. Schulz
In: Radio in Africa: Publics, Cultures, Communities
Liz Gunner, Dina Ligaga, Dumisani Moyo (eds.)
Johannesburg: Wits University Press (2011), pp. 63-80
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Radio Content in the Digital Age: The Evolution of a Sound Medium

Angeliki Gazi, Guy Starkey, Stanislaw Jedrzejewski (eds.)
Bristol: intellect (2011), 254 pp.
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Media Sustainability Index 2010: Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Africa

Leon Morse (ed.)
Washington, DC: IREX (2011), xix, 411 pp.
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Global Flows, Media and Developing Democracies: The Ghanaian Case

Seyram Avle
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 3, issue 2 (2011), pp. 7-23
"This article presents a combination of factors as a framework for examining how globalization and media impact developing democracies in the Global South. In particular, it pays attention to the interplay of changing technologies, regulatory regimes and local entrepreneurs with global expertise (ob ... more
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The Power of Global Community Media
Deep Insights

Linda K. Fuller (ed.)
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, revised paperback ed. (2011), xix, 272 pp.
"Drawing on both theoretical and practical case studies, this collection moves from developing attempts at local media to case studies and on to cyber-examples. The contributors, all distinguished international communications scholars, present a range of perspectives on the ever-burgeoning area of g ... more
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Radio in Africa: Publics, Cultures, Communities
Deep Insights

Liz Gunner, Dina Ligaga, Dumisani Moyo (eds.)
Johannesburg: Wits University Press (2011), xv, 320 pp.
"Radio has been called ‘Africa’s medium’. Its wide accessibility is a result of a number of factors, including the liberalisation policies of the ‘third wave’ of democracy and its ability to transcend the barriers of cost, geographical boundaries, the colonial linguistic heritage and low l ... more
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Climate Airwaves: Community Radio, Action Research, and Advocacy for Climate Justice in Ghana

Blane Harvey
International Journal of Communication, volume 5 (2011), pp. 2035-2058
"Community radio is well recognized as a powerful vehicle for advocacy and social change in Africa, but its use in the field of climate change has remained very limited, and then largely for top-down transmission of information to communities. This article discusses lessons learned to date from the ... more
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The Internet of Elsewhere: The Emergent Effects of a Wired World

Cyrus Farivar
New Brunswick, New Jers.: Rutgers University Press (2011), xiii, 239 pp.
"Cyrus Farivar explores the Internet's history and effects in four distinct and, to some, surprising societies—Iran, Estonia, South Korea, and Senegal. He profiles Web pioneers in these countries and, at the same time, surveys the environments in which they each work [...] Skype was invented in Es ... more
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The Historic "Core Curriculum" and the Book Market in Islamic West Africa

Bruce Hall, Charles Stewart
In: The Trans-Saharan Book Trade
Bruce S. Hall, Charles C. Stewart (eds.)
Brill (2011), pp. 109-174
"Much work has been done to map out the contours of Islamic intellectual production in West Africa before the twentieth century. However, we still do not understand very well the process by which ideas and texts circulated in the region. Lists of specific books imported by West Africans during the n ... more
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Barometre des Médias Africains: Guinee 2011

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2011), 120 pp.
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Nigeria

Akin Akingbulu, Hendrik Bussiek
Johannesburg: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA); Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project (AfriMAP) (2010), xi, 120 pp.
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Senegal Talks Climate: The Public Understanding of Climate Change

Emily LeRoux-Rutledge, Miriam Burton, Patrick McCurdy, Anna Godfrey (comp.)
London: BBC World Service Trust; British Council (2010), 31 pp.
"In May 2009, the BBC World Service Trust’s Research and Learning Group, on behalf of the British Council, conducted research in Senegal to gauge public understanding of climate change. The research consisted of 12 focus-group discussions with Senegalese citizens, as well as 17 in-depth interviews ... more
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Communication for Empowerment: Global Report

Elizabeth McCall, Birgitte Jallov
Oslo; South Orange, New Jers.: UNDP Oslo Governance Centre; Communication for Social Change Consortium (2010), 52 pp.
"The 52-page report summarised here is the result of the three-year partnership between UNDP Oslo Governance Centre and the Communication for Social Change Consortium in piloting the C4E approach in five least-developed countries: Mozambique, Madagascar, Ghana, Lao PDR, and Nepal. The report present ... more