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Radio as an Empowering Environment: How Does Radio Broadcasting in Mali Represent Women’s “web of Relations”?

Emma Heywood, Beatrice Ivey
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Digital Divide: Who in Africa is Connected and Who is Not
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Libuseng Malephane
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On Air Dialogues: Listening to Rural Africans 2022

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Social Media Usage During Covid-19 Pandemic: Beneficial or Injurious to Public Health in Nigeria?

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Radio, Public Life and Citizen Deliberation in South Africa

Sarah Chiumbu, Gilbert Motsaathebe (eds.)
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La confiance en berne: L’information sur la COVID-19 au cœur d’une crise multiple en Centrafrique

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Responsible Data Governance for Monitoring and Evaluation in the African Context. 01: Overview of Data Governance

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Pioneers, Rebels, and a Few Villains: 150 Years of Journalism in Eastern Africa

Charles Onyango-Obbo (ed.)
Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2021), viii; 310 pp.
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Media Viability in East Africa: Tanzania

George Gathigi, Ann Hollifield (eds.)
Aga Khan University; Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2021), vii, 33 pp.
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Misinformed: Sudan’s Centralisation Problem & the Pandemic

Internews; USAID (2021), 81 pp.
"This Information Ecosystem Assessment documents how information around the COVID-19 pandemic is produced, consumed, and shared in Sudan contributing to the existence of multiple and overlapping information sub-systems within the supply side of the broader ecosystem. The findings show how the centra ... more
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African Media Barometer: Zambia 2021

Windhoek; Lusaka: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2021), 56 pp.
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Myths and Misconceptions on Covid-19: ‘Congo Check’ and ‘Talato’ Verification Experiences

Fabíola Ortiz dos Santos
Frontiers in Communication, volume 6, issue 627214 (2021), 21 pp.
"This paper asks: How do fact-checkers combat/halt Covid-19 myths and misconceptions in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic? How do they engage in social media networks toward sense-giving and sharing corrective information? It discusses two cases of online media projec ... more
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Afrofeminist Data Futures

Neema Iyer, Chenai Chair, Garnett Achieng
Kampala: Pollicy (2021), 92 pp.
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RFI : Une radio internationale de proximité ? Le phénomène « Appels sur l’actualité » en RDC

Marie-Soleil Frère
RadioMorphoses, volume 5, issue 6 (2021), 17 pp.
"En Afrique francophone, les chiffres d’audience des radios internationales, et en particulier de RFI, diffèrent fortement d’une ville à l’autre, d’un pays à l’autre. Parmi les pays où la radio demeure très écoutée, figure la République démocratique du Congo (RDC), le pays francop ... more
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A Lexicon of Hateful and Inflammatory Speech in the Central African Republic
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Nicola Barrach-Yousefi et al.
Washington, DC: PeaceTech Lab; United States Institute of Peace (USIP); Association Jeunesse en Marche pour le Développement en Centrafrique (AJEMADEC) (2021), 38 pp.
"Since 2014, PeaceTech Lab has undertaken research and worked with local partners in 13 countries to understand the dynamics of hate speech and the connection between the proliferation of hateful narratives online and violent events offline. This research and the resulting lexicons seek to identify ... more
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Informing Hard-to-Reach Immigrant Groups about COVID-19—Reaching the Somali Population in Oslo

Jan-Paul Brekke
Journal of Refugee Studies, volume 35, issue 1 (2021), pp. 641-661
"This article provides a case study of an information campaign directed at people of Somali decent living in the worst hit district of Oslo, the capital of Norway. The Somalis were the immigrant group most affected by the COVID-19 in Norway during the first wave of the pandemic. The campaign used se ... more
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Information Saves Lives: Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Final Project Report

Internews; USAID (2021), 33 pp.
"On June 25, 2020, the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo declared the end of the Ebola outbreak in Eastern DRC – the 10th in the country’s history and the second largest after the West Africa Ebola outbreak. The outbreak recorded over 3,000 Ebola cases and left over 2,000 deaths1. W ... more
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Leveraging Technology for Peacebuilding in the ECOWAS Region: Documentation of a Consultative Process

Caleb Gichuhi
Abuja: ECOWAS Commission (2021), 36 pp.
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The politics of impunity: A study of journalists’ experiential accounts of impunity in Bulgaria, Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Mexico and Pakistan

Jackie Harrison, Stefanie Pukallus
Journalism, volume 22, issue 2 (2021), pp. 303-319
"Definitions of impunity regarding crimes against journalists have thus far been too narrow. Therefore, we propose a new approach to understanding impunity as also being grounded in journalists’ lived reality and perceptions to better understand the complexity and breadth of impunity. It is based ... more
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How Development Actors Can Help, Not Hurt, Information Ecosystems

Prue Clarke
Deutsche Welle, January 27 (2021)
"Development actors tend to pay media to publish content that often is just their PR material in disguise. It’s time to rethink a practice that undermines both independent journalism and the aid sector’s credibility." (Introduction)