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"Things Will Never be the Same Again": COVID-19 Effects on Freedom of Expression in Southern Africa, 2020 Research

Teldah Mawarire
Advancing Rights in Southern Africa (ARISA); Internews (2020), 23 pp.
"Sadly the research reveal that COVID-19 temporary measures and laws on lockdowns dented freedom of expression gains that had been made over the years with concerns that if there is no financial intervention or adoption of sustainable revenue solutions in SADC, print media that were already in finan ... more
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Types and Sources of Threats to Media Freedom in Uganda

Florence Namasinga Selnes, Gerald Walulya
In: Handbook of Research on Combating Threats to Media Freedom and Journalist Safety
Sadia Jamil (ed.)
Hershey, PA: IGI Global (2020), pp. 257-276
"This chapter contributes to journalism research from the Uganda's context by investigating the types and sources of threats to journalists' safety and media freedom in the country. The authors achieve this by examining relevant documents on the state of journalism in Uganda and interviewing journal ... more
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Is Media Assistance Obsolete? A Practice-Based Perspective on the Potential for Digital Technologies to Achieve Media Development Goals in Sub-Saharan Africa

Daire Higgins
Dublin: Technological University Dublin, Doctoral Thesis (2020), 417 pp.
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Illegal assaults and treatment of journalists: A big challenge to the journalism profession in Nigeria

Adegboyega Adedolapo Ola
Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research, volume 12, issue 3 (2020), pp. 151-161
"One of the greatest obstacles confronting the journalism profession in the discharge of their duties is the indiscriminate physical and digital threat being experienced by journalists all over the world, particularly within sub-Saharan Africa. The continuous attacks facing journalists in Africa, mo ... more
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Silencing the Media and Chaining the Watchdog: Threats to Journalist Safety During Elections in Nigeria

Adamkolo Mohammed Ibrahim, Umaru A. Pate, Abdulsamad Muhammad Usman
In: Handbook of Research on Combating Threats to Media Freedom and Journalist Safety
Sadia Jamil (ed.)
Hershey, PA: IGI Global (2020), pp. 214-240
"Over the last two decades, Nigeria has been struggling to consolidate its democratic processes to ensure peaceful campaigns and free and fair polls. But electoral processes require the free flow of verified electoral information and citizen's participation – phenomena that only free media can gua ... more
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Indigenous Textual Cultures: Reading and Writing in the Age of Global Empire

Tony Ballantyne, Lachy Paterson
Durham; London: Duke University Press (2020), 357 pp.
"As modern European empires expanded, written language was critical to articulations of imperial authority and justifications of conquest. For imperial administrators and thinkers, the non-literacy of “native” societies demonstrated their primitiveness and inability to change. Yet as the contrib ... more
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Growing the local book industry: The experience of a publishing collaborative in Rwanda

Save the Children (2020), 2 pp.
"In Rwanda, Save the Children collaborated with education ministries, publishing industry stakeholders, schools, book sellers and libraries in order to strengthen existing systems and increase output and availability of quality local language children’s books. This ‘whole chain’ approach addre ... more
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How Kenyans on Twitter Use Visuals as a Form of Political Protest

Grace Brenda W. Okoth
Kommunikation.Medien, issue 12 (2020), 27 pp.
"The growth of the Internet in the last two decades has helped increase political and civic en-gagement and scrutiny. The growth of a digital economy in Kenya has led to the emergence of a vibrant online community with 89.7 % of the population having access to the Internet. This paper examines how K ... more
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African Narratives: A Gloomy Picture, with Some Emerging Positive Trends. Literature Review of Academic Writing on African Narratives

Rebecca Pointer
Africa No Filter (2020), 12 pp.
"In 2018 the fictional country Wakanda from the film Black Panther was the fourth most mentioned African country on Twitter, after Egypt, South Africa and Kenya. The fact that Africa’s 4th most talked about country doesn’t exist tells us two things: pop culture is a powerful tool for narrative w ... more
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Refugee Perception Data in Uganda

Ground Truth Solutions (2020), 8 pp.
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Media and Information Literacy Index. Country Report Kenya

Dennis Reineck, Georg Materna, Luise Krumm
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2020), 27 pp.
"The young generation in Kenya rejects disinformative and hateful communication. When asked for their opinion on these matters in a representative survey, a majority of 15-25-year-olds evaluated them as “not to be trusted” and “not funny”. This is one of the most important results of DW Akad ... more
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Digital Vigilantism, Social Media and Cyber Criminality

Karen Allen, Isel van Zyl
Institute for Security Studies (ISS) (2020), 15 pp.
"Social media platforms have become powerful tools to amplify and share narratives. Like many evolving technologies, platforms such as Twitter or Facebook may be used for social good or for ill. Digital vigilantism (whereby social media platforms are used for organised shaming, hounding or doxing of ... more
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The Contribution of Citizen Views to Understanding Women’s Empowerment as a Process of Change: The Case of Niger

Emma Heywood, Maria Tomlinson
Feminist Media Studies, volume 20, issue 5 (2020), pp. 713-729
"This article investigates citizen’s views on women’s empowerment as a process of change in Niger, the lowest country on the Human Development Index where women suffer widespread gender inequality. It draws on semi-structured interviews with radio and civil society organisation (CSO) representat ... more
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Cartographie des centres de formation en journalisme d'Afrique Subsaharienne
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Alan Finlay
Kalmar (SE): Fojo Media Institute (2020), 57 pp.
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Muslim Feminist, Media Sensation, and Religious Entrepreneur: Aminata Kane Koné as a Figure of Success in Côte D'Ivoire

Frédérick Madore
Africa Today, volume 67, issue 2-3 (2020), pp. 17-38
"This article analyzes the career path of Aminata Kane Koné, a highly educated Ivorian Muslim woman, who has emerged as a female figure of success. A prominent activist of the Association des Élèves et Étudiants Musulmans de Côte d'Ivoire in the 2000s, she has become a self-made religious entre ... more
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Framing Democracy. Media Coverage of Tanzania's 2020 Presidential Elections: A Focus on Opposition Candidate Tundu Lissu

Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2020), 15 pp.
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Assessing the Limitations to Freedom of Expression on the Internet in Ethiopia Against the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights

Yohannes Eneyew Ayalew
African Human Rights Law Journal, volume 20, issue 1 (2020), pp. 315-345
"The Ethiopian government restricts freedom of expression on the internet and has adopted extraneous limiting measures. Most of these measures are incompatable with the African Charter. Restrictions to freedom of expression on the internet include internet shutdowns, hate speech and disinformation r ... more
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Evaluation du développement de l’internet au Bénin: Utilisation des indicateurs ROAM-X de l’Universalité de l’Internet de l’UNESCO

Alain Kiyindou
Paris: UNESCO (2020), 263 pp.
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Are Indigenous Voices Being Heard? A Study on the State of Indigenous Community Broadcasting in 19 Countries;Voces Indígenas. ¿Están siendo escuchadas? Estudio sobre el estado de la radiodifusión comunitaria indígena en 19 países

José Manuel Ramos Rodríguez
Cambridge, MA; Toronto: Cultural Survival; World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) (2020), 135 pp.
"Indigenous Peoples have been excluded from accessing media for many reasons, including their geographic location, languages, and legal barriers. Indigenous Peoples living in isolated areas have little physical access tu urban-centred media. Similarly, a lack of awareness of human rights, freedoms, ... more
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World Entertainment Media: Global, Regional and Local Perspectives

Paolo Sigismondi (ed.)
New York; London: Routledge (2020), xvi, 210 pp.
"There are still opposing and restraining forces to globalization processes taking place in media, and the global mediascape comprises international, regional and local markets, and global and local players, which in recent years have evolved at an uneven pace. By analyzing similarities and differen ... more