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Tanzanian Media Environment: Current Access, Potential for Growth and Strategies for Information Dissemination

Gayatri Murthy
Washington, DC: InterMedia (2011), 49 pp.
"This report uses AudienceScapes data from a nationally representative survey of Tanzania to describe how people of different social groups gather, share and access information through mass media. We also focus on whether the presence of mobile phones can further augment information dissemination us ... more
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Names U Ma Puce: Multilingual Texting in Senegal

Kristin Vold Lexander
European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) (2011), 16 pp.
"Multilingualism is an important aspect of African urban life, also of the lives of students in Dakar. While the students usually write monolingual texts, mainly in French, their text messages involve the use of African languages too, in particular of the majority language Wolof, as well as Arabic a ... more
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Impact of the Department of Communications’ Community Radio Support Programme: Report and Recommendations

Mandla Msimang, Libby Lloyd, Nadia Bulbulia, Leona Mentz, Babu Charles Katanga, Thabisa Faye
Pygma Consulting (2011), 80 pp.
"The Department of Communications (“DoC”) Community Radio Support Programme (“CRSP”) was initiated in 1998 and includes a range of categories of support: Infrastructure rollout to provide technical equipment to stations; Signal distribution and upgrade; Programme production support on specif ... more
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African Media Barometer: Botswana 2011

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2011), 68 pp.
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Accountability Through Public Opinion: From Inertia to Public Action

Sina Odugbemi, Taeku Lee (eds.)
Washington, DC: World Bank (2011), xxv, 507 pp.
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Journalists or Activists? Self-Identity in the Ethiopian Diaspora Online Community

Terje S. Skjerdal
Journalism, volume 12, issue 6 (2011), pp. 727-744
"This study investigates the role of the diaspora online media as stakeholders in the transnational Ethiopian media landscape. Through content analysis of selected websites and interviews with editors, the research discusses how the sites relate to recognized journalistic ideals and how the editors ... more
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Barometre des Médias Africains: Guinee 2011

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2011), 120 pp.
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The Myth of Press Freedom in Botswana: From Sir Seretse Khama to Ian Khama

Letshwiti B. B. Tutwane
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 3, issue 1 (2011), pp. 43-55
"This article argues that for all the plaudits that it has received Botswana is not a true example of democracy. It only continues to shine because of its historical context and the elaborate machinations of the ruling party. It supports Good's (1996) thesis of Authoritarian Liberalism as an apt des ... more
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Changing Norms is Key to Fighting Everyday Corruption

Sabina Panth
Washington, DC: World Bank, Communication for Governance and Accountability Program (CommGAP) (2011), 25, 55 pp.
"Based on CommGAP’s interactions with the global anticorruption community as well as earlier research, we were able to collate 18 representative instances (case studies) from around the world, with real-life examples of citizens coming together to speak up against corruption and social norms vis- ... more
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Networking African Journalism Educators: Bonding, Bridging, and Linking

Guy Berger
Global Media Journal - African Edition, volume 5, issue 1 (2011), 23 pp.
"Professional networking of African journalism educators is a complex matter for reasons related to the fragmentary identity and fragile resource base of this constituency. African journalism educators thus share many characteristics which ironically dilute the sense of a clear and common identity t ... more
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Africa’s Evolving Infosystems: A Pathway to Security and Stability

Steven Livingston
Washington, DC: National Defense University Press (2011), iii, 57 pp.
"Linked by mobile telephony and supported by geographical information systems, civil society networks now have unprecedented opportunities to develop security-monitoring programs, provide information needed for effective health care, create banking services, and provide farmers with market informati ... more
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An Exploratory Investigation Into the Status of Reading Promotion Projects in South Africa

Sabelo Ransome Chizwina
University of Pretoria, Master Thesis (2011), 171 pp.
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An Analysis of the Somali Media Environment

Sonia Whitehead, Chris Larkin, Jamal Abdi, Hodan Ibrahim, Samuel Otieno
London: BBC World Service Trust (2011), 138 pp.
"In 2006 the BBC World Service Trust (BBC WST), funded by the UK Department for International Development, conducted research into media in 17 countries across sub-Saharan Africa in order to identify priorities for future media development initiatives. A series of African Media Development Initiativ ... more
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Marketing on the Airwaves: Marketing Information Service (MIS) and Radio

Sheila Huggins-Rao
Ottawa: Farm Radio International (2011), 63 pp.
"Farmers require varying marketing information, depending on their location, local market conditions, crops, production activities, and cultural practices. Radio has the capacity to reach a large audience, and can provide an integrated approach to market information, incorporating all these elements ... more
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Well Informed - Acting Responsibly: The Global Media Programme of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

Sankt Augustin; Berlin: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2011), 42 pp.
"Since the beginning of the 1970s, the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung has taken a holistic approach to its support of the media in its international and European cooperation efforts. What started as individual training projects for senior journalists and the support of communications studies in Latin Amer ... more
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Engaging Media in Communicating Research on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: Experiences and Lessons Learned

Rose Ndakala Oronje, Chi-Chi Undie, Eliya Msiyaphazi Zulu, Joanna Crichton
Health Research Policy and Systems, volume 9, issue Suppl.1:57 (2011), 10 pp.
"This paper describes the experiences of the African Population and Health Research Center and its partners in cultivating the interest and building the capacity of the media in evidence-based reporting of reproductive health issues in sub-Saharan Africa [...] The African Population and Health Resea ... more
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Participatory Video for Monitoring and Evaluation of Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change

Isabelle Lemaire, Soledad Muñiz
Manchester: University of Manchester, Centre for Development Informatics (CDI) (2011), 10 pp.
"Between 2008 and 2011, Community­Based Adaptation in Africa (CBAA) – an action research project – tested tools for community adaptation and knowledge generation in eight African countries while building the capacity of its partners and local communities. Through participatory methods, the proj ... more
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Community Radio: The Beat That Develops the Soul of the People? A Case Study of XK FM as a SABC Owned Community Radio Station and its Role as a Facilitator of Community Based Development

Thomas Bongani Hart
University of KwaZulu-Natal, Master Thesis (2011), 228 pp.
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African Media Barometer: Zambia 2011

Windhoek; Lusaka: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2011), 72 pp.
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Sudan and South Sudan: Media and Telecoms Landscape Guide

infoasaid (2011), 92 pp.