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A Guide to Child Online Protection

Communications Authority of Kenya (2019), 23 pp.
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African Media Barometer: Madagascar 2019

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2019), 54, 56 pp.
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Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond
Deep Insights

Allan Thompson (ed.)
Waterloo, Ontario: Centre for International Governance Innovation (2019), x, 637 pp.
"The book includes an extensive section on the echoes of Rwanda, which looks at the cases of Darfur, the Central African Republic, Myanmar, and South Sudan, while the impact of social media as a new actor is examined through chapters on social media use by the Islamic State and in Syria and in other ... more
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Developing Independent Media Associations in Ethiopia

Washington, DC: Mersa Media Institute (2019), 41 pp.
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Mobile Africa: Human Trafficking and the Digital Divide

Mirjam van Reisen, Munyaradzi Mawere, M. Stokmans, K. A. Gebre-Egziabher (eds.)
Bamenda: Langaa (2019), xviii, 739 pp.
"What happens at the nexus of the digital divide and human trafficking? This book examines the impact of the introduction of new digital information and communication technology (ICT) – as well as lack of access to digital connectivity – on human trafficking. The different studies presented in t ... more
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Ethiopia: Reflections on Media Reform

Kalmar: Fojo Media Institute (2019), 60 pp.
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Public participation and social accountability in Kenyan counties: A pilot study using interactive radio in Siaya

Sharath Srinivasan, Stephanie Diepeveen, Khadija Mohammed, Edgar Otieno
Nairobi; Cambridge: Africa's Voices Foundation; Urban Institute (2019), 34 pp.
"[...] this pilot study in Siaya County sought to assess what makes for more effective public participation in Kenya. In contributing to a timely policy concern about how to best meet the imperatives/aspirations of devolution, it sought also to address the limited empirical evidence in scholarship a ... more
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Media and the Rights of the Child in Africa

Olusola Oyero (ed.)
Hershey: CyberTech Publishing (2019), 396 pp.
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Assessing the Capacity, Challenges and Sustainability of the Community Radio Sector in Ethiopia

Negash, Tewodros, Per Oesterlund
International Media Support (IMS); danicom (2019), 36 pp.
"International Media Support (IMS) carried out two initial assessment missions in Ethiopia in June and August 2018, and the community radio sector was identified as an area of possible cooperation and support. In order to follow up on this finding, an IMS team consisting of Mr. Tewodros Negash and M ... more
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Die Deutschen und ihre Kolonien: Ein Überblick

Horst Gründer, Hermann Joseph Hiery (eds.)
Berlin: be.bra Verlag, Sonderausg. (2018), 352 pp.
"Zwischen 1884 und 1914 besaß Deutschland ein Kolonialreich, das von Togo in Westafrika bis zu den Inseln Samoas im Pazifik reichte. Dieses Buch bietet einen kenntnisreichen und allgemeinverständlichen Überblick über das kurzlebige deutsche Kolonialabenteuer. Es informiert über die politischen ... more
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Global Information Society Watch 2018: Community Networks

Association for Progressive Communications (APC); International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2018), 259 pp.
"The 43 country reports included in this year’s Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) capture the different experiences and approaches in setting up community networks across the globe. They show that key ideas, such as participatory governance systems, community ownership and skills transfe ... more
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Can the TV Makeover Format of Edutainment Lead to Widespread Changes in Farmer Behaviour and Influence Innovation Systems? Shamba Shape Up in Kenya

Graham Clarkson, Chris Garforth, Peter Dorward, George Mose, Carlos Barahona, Francisco Areal, MacKenzie Dove
Land Use Policy, volume 76 (2018), pp. 338-351
"Edutainment, the combination of education with entertainment through various media such as television, radio, mobile phone applications and games, is increasingly being used as an approach to stimulate innovation and increase agricultural productivity amongst smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Afri ... more
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Media Capacity Building in Sudan: A Measure of Success?

Nigel Baker, Helen Scott
African Journalism Studies, volume 39, issue 2 (2018), pp. 130-137
"A five-year, media capacity-building programme in Sudan gives some valuable pointers about how to keep a media-development programme alive—and the positive results that can be achieved through perseverance and a collaborative effort by stakeholders. The results included the introduction of a new ... more
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Quality of News Content in Two Radio Stations in Addis Ababa: Case Study of Abay FM 102.9 and Bisrat FM 101.1

Berhanu Tessema
Addis Ababa: Addis Ababa University, Master Thesis (2018), vii, 57 pp.
"My research focuses on two FM radio stations in Ethiopian capital-Abay FM 102.9 and Bisrat FM 101.1 in serving their audiences by providing content deliveries in news writing and reporting. The study based on what listeners of the mushrooming FM radio stations complaints on lacking content from the ... more
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Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa

Felicitas Becker, Joel Cabrita, Marie Rodet (eds.)
Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press (2018), ix, 320 pp.
"Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa is one of the first volumes to put new media and old media into significant conversation with one another, and also offers a rare comparison between Christianity and Islam in Africa. The contributors find many previously unacknowledged correspondenc ... more
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Examining diffusion to understand the how of SASA!, a violence against women and HIV prevention intervention in Uganda

Elizabeth Starmann, Lori Heise, Nambusi Kyegombe et al.
BMC Public Health, volume 18, issue 616 (2018), 20 pp.
"This paper is based on a qualitative study of couples living in SASA communities and secondary analysis of endline quantitative data collected as part of a cluster randomised control trial designed to evaluate the impact of the SASA! intervention. The primary trial was conducted in eight communitie ... more
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Mapping Digital Rights and Online Freedom of Expression in East, West and Southern Africa

Media Legal Defence Initiative (MLDI) (2018), 100 pp.
"This report maps the current landscape in respect of digital rights and online freedom of expression in East, West and Southern Africa. It looks at the trends regarding law and policy developments, as well as recent litigation, within these regions. The report focuses on 18 countries – 6 per regi ... more
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Dangerous Disinformation

D+C: Development and Cooperation, issue May (2018), pp. 23-38
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Media Ownership Monitor Tanzania

Reporters Without Borders; Media Council of Tanzania (2018), 739 pp.
"Only a few media companies have a predominant market position and thus a potentially high influence on public opinion in Tanzania. Whereas the regulatory framework should in theory safeguard media pluralism and prevent media concentration, it shows considerable gaps in practice. Moreover, the legal ... more
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Community Radio in Ethiopia: A Discourse of Peace and Conflict Reporting

Mulatu Alemayehu Moges
In: Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change
Jan Servaes (ed.)
Singapore: Springer (2018), 10 pp.
"In the states, like Ethiopia, where internal conflicts, mainly ethnic conflicts, have currently been appearing in many parts, a medium that deals with those issues appropriately is vital. Among the three main media branches, such as public service, commercial, and community radio, the later can be ... more