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Sounding the Nation, Sounding the Revolution: Music and Radio Broadcasting in Post-Colonial Mozambique (1975-1986)

Marco Roque de Freitas
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 29, issue 1 (2022), pp. 80-103
"This article aims to identify the sounds, editorial policies and values promoted by Radio Moçambique (RM) during the so-called “socialist period” (1975–1986). Given the high illiteracy rate in the country, RM became the primary medium for informing the populations of FRELIMO’s ideology – ... more
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Assessment of Media Development in Sudan 2019-2020: Based on UNESCO's Media Development Indicators

Steve Buckley, Amel Ibrahim Ahmed Abuzaid, Sara Eljmiaabi, Ahmed Yahia
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 107 pp.
"The research data reveal that Sudan at the time had at least 10 media-related laws in place that do not meet international standards. At the same time, the country had the benefit of an infrastructure of 30 institutions offering media education and training. Sudan has an opportunity to restructure ... more
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The Digital Continent: Placing Africa in Planetary Networks of Work

Mohammad Amir Anwar, Mark Graham
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2022), xxiii, 260 pp.
"The year 2018 marks the first year in human history in which a majority of the world's population are now connected to the internet. This mass connectivity means that we have an internet that no longer connects only the world's wealthy. Workers from Lagos to Johannesburg to Nairobi and everywhere i ... more
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Politiques éditoriales dans la mission (XIXe-XXIe siécle)

Annie Lenoble-Bart, Bernadette Truchet, Jean-François Zorn, Didier Galibert (eds.)
Paris: Karthala (2022), 405 pp.
"Les Missions à l’époque contemporaine ont continué de se propager grâce à destechniques éditoriales que les progrès des moyens de communication leur ont procurées. En tout premier lieu, l’imprimerie a permis l’édition de la Bible dans de multiples langues et la multiplication de supp ... more
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Ageing and the Media: International Perspectives

Virpi Ylänne (ed.)
Bristol: Policy Press (2022), 234 pp.
"Media representations of ageing play a role in stereotype formation and even reinforce them. Encountering these stereotypes can negatively impact the self-esteem, health status, physical wellbeing and cognitive performance of older people. This international collection examines different dimensions ... more
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Comunales 2020 au Benin: Gestion d'une campagne électorale exclusivement mediatique. Livre blanc

Cotonou: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2022), 96 pp.
"Le présent livre blanc passe au peigne fin le parcours trépidant de la HAAC pendant cette campagne inédite au Bénin et dans le monde. Il retrace et analyse les activités menées par la HAAC dans le cadre des communales de 2020, en pointant singulièrement la période de campagne électorale qu ... more
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Pentecostalism and Media in Africa: Theoretical Explorations of Power and Agency of Media Platforms and Their Users

Ibrahim Murtala
Religion Compass, volume 17, issue 1 e12452 (2022), 9 pp.
"This survey paper interrogates four theoretical frameworks often invoked to analyze intersections between media and religion: mediatization, mediation of meaning, mediation of the beyond, and religious social shaping of technology. The paper surveys several research works informed by the aforementi ... more
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Médias publics au Burkina Faso: Entre journalisme d'Etat et renouveau médiathique

Lassané Yaméogo
Paris: L'Harmattan (2022), 444 pp.
"La recherche révèle que dynamiques intra et interprofessionnelles et relationnelles font émerger des journalismes aux visées ambigües et contrastées. D’une part, des accommodements politiques et financiers formels et informels mêlant sanctions non dites et récompenses conduisent certains ... more
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Dez anos da lei de acesso à informação: Limites, perspectivas e desafios

Elen Geraldes, Alessandra Durante, Barros Dirlene, Gabriela Kaya et al.
São Paulo: Intercom – Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação (2022), 260 pp.
"Este livro surge em defesa da Lei de Acesso às Informações Públicas, que completa dez anos da entrada em vigor em 16 de maio de 2022. A Lei 12.527/11 ou LAI, como é conhecida, é inegavelmente um instrumento importante para a promoção da participação e da cidadania para a constituição de ... more
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Decolonising Political Communication in Africa: Reframing Ontologies

Beschara Karam, Bruce Mutsvairo (eds.)
Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2022), xxviii, 226 pp.
"This book uses decolonisation as a lens to interrogate political communication styles, performance, and practice in Africa and the diaspora. The book interrogates the theory and practice of political communication, using decolonial research methods to begin a process of self-reflexivity and the cre ... more
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Reading the Radio-Magazine: Culture, Decolonization and the Paigc’s Rádio libertação

Alexandra Reza
Interventions, volume 24, issue 6 (2022), pp. 857-878
"This essay examines the history of the PAIGC radio station Rádio Libertação, broadcast from Conakry from 1967. The essay asks how to read the radio station today, and suggests we might see the radio station as a manifestation – albeit limited in scope and life span – of the commitment Amílc ... more
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From State Repression to Fear of Non-State Actors: Examining Emerging Threats of Journalism Practice in Ethiopia

Téwodros W. Workneh
Journalism Practice, volume 16, issue 9 (2022), pp. 1909-1926
"Non-state media journalists in Ethiopia traditionally faced safety threats emanating from state-sponsored attacks and punitive legal frameworks. Recently, however, state hostility is being replaced by non-state actors’ aggression against journalists. By framing emerging threats of reporters’ sa ... more
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Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment (DECA): Zambia

Reyn Anderson, Vlad Manoil, Brown Kasaro, Yaroslav Eferin, Lukonga Lindunda, Kate Gromova
USAID, Digital Frontiers Project (2022), 83 pp.
"The Zambia Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment report outlines the key aspects of the country's digital ecosystem and provides recommendations for the international development community to create a more inclusive, safe, and enabling environment to achieve development outcomes." (https://www.usaid ... more
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Transforming Quality and Reliable Access to Information into Reality for Youth with Disabilities in Namibia

Ntinda Ruusa
Windhoek: Namibia Media Trust (2022), 19 pp.
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Assessment of Media Development in Kenya: Based on UNESCO's Media Development Indicators

Alymana Bathily, Sait Matty Jaw, Modou Joof, Awa Bah, Birane Gai et al.
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 103 pp.
"1. Government should implement the Access to Information Act 2016 speedily and fully. This would help realize the Right of Access to Information and promote a culture of transparency, openness and accountability among public officials. 2. The Information and Communications Act should be revised to ... more
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Community Radio in Contemporary South Africa: Deconstructing Complexities in Demarginalization

Anthony A. Olorunnisola, Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed, Sarah Moore
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 29, issue 2 (2022), pp. 286-303
"We used on-site interviews and roundtable conversations with practitioners to uncover original evidence of ways in which two variant South African communities activated citizens’ involvement in radio co-production of content. We found dual analytical filters in state control of radio during two c ... more
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Pivots, Perseverances & Pleasures

Favour Borokini, Bonnita Nyamwire, Neema Iyer, Meital Kupfer
Pollicy (2022), iii, 26 pp.
"This is the final report in Pollicy's three-part series on African Women in AI. Launched in 2021, this project frames analysis of the state of artificial intelligence (AI) in Africa through a gender lens by exploring the impact of AI on women. This project emerged out of the need to fill the visibl ... more
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Attributing Public Ignorance in Vaccination Narratives

Samantha Vanderslott, Luisa Enria, Alex Bowmer, Abass Kamara, Shelley Lees
Social Science & Medicine, issue 307: 115152 (2022), 11 pp.
"Examples from Sierra Leone, Uganda, and India show how ‘ignorant public’ framings are used as explanation for vaccine hesitancy through assigned roles for institutions and publics, and the consequences this narrative has for vaccination encounters. These examples are based on ethnographic field ... more
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Sudan’s Brief, Fragile Reform Window (2019–2021)

Mary Myers, Lina Yassin
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2022), 32 pp.
"We find that there is a will for reform from the civilian part of the government, the international community, independent media professionals, and a handful of Sudanese CSOs. However, pushing for a free media is a low priority for most of the population, who have more urgent survival and security ... more
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Media Reform During Ethiopia’s Political Transition

Henok Semaegzer Fente
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2022), 8 pp.
"For most of its modern history, the news media in Ethiopia have been a tool for government control. But 2018 brought a wave of optimism to Africa’s second most populous nation. Anti-government protests forced the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) to undertake majo ... more