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Theatre In/for Development in Tanzania: A Neoliberal Nightmare

Vicensia Shule
In: Trends in Twenty-First-Century African Theatre and Performance
Kene Igweonu (ed.)
Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi (2010), pp. 191-215
"This chapter explores the relationship between theatre and neoliberal policies in Tanzania. It analyses the consequences of neoliberalism for the Tanzanian theatre and exposes the challenges it faces as a simulacrum of people’s culture. I also present evidence on why it is important, when analyzi ... more
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Uganda Talks Climate: The Public Understanding of Climate Change

Lucy Neville, David Musiime, Allan Oniba Alana
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 Uganda to gauge public understanding of climate change. The research consisted of 12 focus group discussions with Ugandan citizens, as well as 18 in-depth interviews wit ... more
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Journalism Education in Countries with Limited Media Freedom
Deep Insights

Beate Josephi (ed.)
New York: Peter Lang (2010), xiii, 263 pp.
"Since the 1990s journalism education programs have expanded exponentially around the world, but media freedom has not. Globally comparative, this edited volume assesses journalism education and the challenging environment in which it is delivered in countries with a partly free or not free status a ... more
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Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa: Reflections Inspired by Studies of Xenophobia in Cameroon and South Africa

Francis B. Nyamnjoh
Africa Spectrum, volume 45, issue 1 (2010), pp. 57-93
"This paper demonstrates the extent to which the media and belonging in Africa are torn between competing and often conflicting claims of bounded and flexible ideas of culture and identity. It draws on studies of xenophobia in Cameroon and South Africa, inspired by the resilience of the politicizati ... more
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South Africa Talks Climate: The Public Understanding of Climate Change

Lucy Neville et al.
London: BBC World Service Trust; British Council (2010), 35 pp.
"Between August and October 2009, the BBC World Service Trust’s Research and Learning Group, funded by the British Council, conducted research in south africa to gauge public understanding of climate change. The research consisted of 16 focus group discussions with south african citizens, and 18 i ... more
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Public Sentinel: News Media and Governance Reform
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Pippa Norris (ed.)
Washington, DC: World Bank (2010), xxi, 420 pp.
"This book highlights the importance of the news media as watchdogs, agenda setters and gatekeepers for the quality of democratic deliberation in the public sphere. At the same time, it theorizes that the capacity of journalists and media systems to fulfill these roles depends on the broader context ... more
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Language, Cultural and Communication Rights of Ethnic Minorities in South Africa

Last Moyo
International Communication Gazette, volume 72, issue 4-5 (2010), pp. 425-440
"This article focuses on ethnic and linguistic minorities and radio broadcasting in South Africa. It examines the country’s language, cultural and broadcasting policies and their potential impact on the participation of ethnic minorities in radio broadcasting. In particular, special focus is given ... more
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Capacity Development in Practice

Jan Ubels, Naa-Aku Acquaye-Baddoo, Alan Fowler (eds.)
London; Washington, DC: Earthscan (2010), xxii, 338 pp.
"Real-life practice is poorly understood and undervalued as a distinct professional domain. Written by practitioners, this innovative publication is designed to make capacity development more professional and increasingly effective in achieving development goals. Practical illustrations draw on expe ... more
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SMS Uprising: Mobile Phone Activism in Africa
Deep Insights

Sokari Ekine (ed.)
Cape Town: Pambazuka Press (2010), xxii, 149 pp.
"This collection of essays by those engaged in using mobile phone technologies for social change provides an analysis of the socio-economic, political and media contexts faced by activists in Africa today. The essays address a broad range of issues including inequalities in access to technology base ... more
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Racism and the Image of Africa in German Schools and Textbooks

Elina Marmer, Dalia Marmer, Leona Hitomi, Papa Sow
International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities & Nations, volume 10, issue 5 (2010), pp. 1-12
"Poverty, violence and underdevelopment are the prevailing images of Africa in German history and geography textbooks. Pre-colonial African history, African culture and philosophy are not covered by Eurocentric curricula. Classic and modern western literature is interspersed with stereotypes about A ... more
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Debating “Zimbabweanness” in Diasporic Internet Forums: Technologies of Freedom?

Wendy Willems, Winston Mano
In: Zimbabwe’s New Diaspora: Displacement and the Cultural Politics of Survival
Joann McGregor, Ranka Primorac (eds.)
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2010), pp. 183-201
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Mobile Communications in Zambia: A Demand Side Analysis Based on the AudienceScapes Survey, Including Insights on Mobile Money Use

David Montes
Washington, DC: Intermedia (2010), 54 pp.
"Youth and young adults (15-29) are often assumed to be leaders in mobile phone use, but this is not entirely the case in Zambia. While those 15 to 29 make up the largest segment of overall mobile phone users, they do not show the highest rate of weekly (regular) users that is taken by those 30 to 4 ... more
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Media Parenting and the Construction of Media Identities in Northern Nigerian Muslim Hausa Video Films

Abdalla Uba Adamu
In: Media and Identity in Africa
Kimani Njogu, John Middleton (eds.)
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2010), pp. 171-184
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Translation, Language and Fiction Publishing in Africa: The Case of Uganda

Bob Lapajian
Utrecht University, Master Thesis (2010), 132 pp.
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Hate Radio: Reenactment einer Sendung des „Radio-Télévision Libre des Mille Collines – RTLM“ aus dem Jahr 1994

Zürich; Berlin: International Institute of Political Murder (IIPM) (2010), 18 pp.
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Kenya: Communicating with Policymakers About Development Issues. A Guide for International Development Community

David Montez
Washington, DC: Intermedia (2010), 52 pp.
"InterMedia conducted in-depth interviews with senior Kenyan government officials and policy influencers outside government (collectively referred to in this report as policy actors), to find out how they gather, assess, share and disseminate information critical to development policy work. The aim ... more
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Negotiating Journalism Ethics in Zambia: Towards a 'Glocal' Ethics

Fackson Banda
In: Media Ethics Beyond Borders: A Global Perspective
Stephen J. A. Ward, Herman Wasserman (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge (2010), pp. 124-141
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Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Art Films and the Nollywood Video Revolution

Mahir Saul, Ralph A. Austen (eds.)
Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press (2010), vii, 248 pp.
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Shadows of War: A Social History of Silence in the Twentieth Century

Efrat Ben-Ze'ev, Jay Winter, Ruth Ginio (eds.)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2010), ix, 223 pp.
"Silence lies between forgetting and remembering. This book explores the ways in which different societies have constructed silences to enable men and women to survive and make sense of the catastrophic consequences of armed conflict. Using a range of disciplinary approaches, it examines the silence ... more
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Access to Africa’s Knowledge: Publishing Development Research and Measuring Value

Eve Gray
African Journal of Information and Communication, issue 10 (2010), pp. 4-19
"This paper reviews, critically, the discourse of research publication policy and the directives of the regional and global organisations that advise African countries with respect to their relevance to African scholarly communication. What emerges is a readiness to use the concepts and language of ... more