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Running Radio Selam: Constraints Facing an Ethiopian Peace Radio Project

Tarjei Kidd Olsen
Oslo: University of Oslo, Master Thesis in Peace and Conflict Studies (2009), 143 pp.
"I have primarily looked at how Radio Selam, an Ethiopian peace radio programme run by the local Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY), might have been constrained by four spheres of influence. The spheres I looked at encapsulated certain organizational, individual, economic and politica ... more
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Rebel Voices and Radio Actors: In Pursuit of Dialogue and Debate in Northern Uganda

Maggie Ibrahim
Development in Practice, volume 19, issue 4-5 (2009), pp. 610-620
"The town of Gulu in northern Uganda stood still as the leader of a then 16-year-old insurgency against the government was heard live through a local government radio station. On 28 December 2002, Joseph Kony called in to Mega FM’s live debate talk show and was heard throughout northern Uganda. Th ... more
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Turning Rice Into Pilau: The Art of Video Narration in Tanzania

Matthias Krings
Intermédialités, issue 4 (2009), 32 pp.
"In Tanzania pirated video copies of foreign films are subject to a profound practice of remediation. Video narrators who either perform live simultaneous translations and commentaries on such films in video parlours, or mediatise their interpretations as VHS cassettes and DVDs with Kiswahili voice- ... more
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Report on Evaluation of "Community Radio Listening Groups Project"

Khartoum: UNICEF; Nutro Health for Development (NHD) (2009), 298 pp.
"In 2002 the UNICEF in collaboration with the Ministry of Information and Communication ( represented by Sudan Radio & TV Corporation –SRTC) launched a pilot project of Community Radio Listening Groups (CRLGs), designed to reach population in hard to reach areas in the country with messages and de ... more
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Communication for Rural Development: Inventory of Communication Resources in Farmer Advisory Services Using ICTs in Rakai District-Uganda

Bukenya Godfrey
Wageningen: Larenstein University of Applied Sciences (2009), ix; 56 pp.
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Journalism Training in Sudan: A Move Towards Enhanced Cooperation

International Media Support (IMS) (2009), 23 pp.
"One of the major obstacles to the development of a professional media is the lack of qualified education and training and media training remains a neglected area in Sudan. Education and training in journalism and related areas provided by universities are not responding sufficiently to the needs of ... more
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Media Colloquium Report

Open Society Initiative for East Africa (2009), 16 pp.
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Sowing the Seeds: A Study of Media Coverage of Agriculture and Women in the Agricultural Sector in Three African Countries: Mali, Uganda and Zambia

Washington, DC: International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) (2009), 27 pp.
This report documents the scant attention that agriculture and women agriculturalists have received from news media.
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Journalismuswelten: Ein Vergleich von Journalismuskulturen in 17 Ländern

Thomas Hanitzsch, Josef Seethaler
Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, volume 57, issue 4 (2009), pp. 464-483
"Der vorliegende Aufsatz berichtet erste deskriptive Befunde aus einer multinationalen Studie zum Vergleich von Journalismuskulturen. Im Rahmen des Projekts wurden insgesamt 1700 Journalisten in 17 Ländern zu ihren professionellen Orientierungen befragt. Im Vordergrund standen Fragen nach dem Verst ... more
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Media, Elections and Political Violence in Eastern Africa: Towards a Comparative Framework

Nicole Stremlau, Monroe E. Price
Oxford; London: Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford; Center for Global Communication Studies, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania; Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research (2009), 45 pp.
"The problem of post-election violence seems to be ever-more present as complexities of nation-building and democratic development arise. This report deals with some relevant questions. It is based on the outcome of discussions at a December 2008 workshop organized in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia [...] Our ... more
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Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation

Alexander Laban Hinton, Kevin Lewis O'Neill (eds.)
Durham: Duke University Press (2009), 349 pp.
"What happens to people and the societies in which they live after genocide? How are the devastating events remembered on the individual and collective levels, and how do these memories intersect and diverge as the rulers of postgenocidal states attempt to produce a monolithic "truth" about the past ... more
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Communication for Development: A Glimpse at UNDP's Practice

Elizabeth McCall
Oslo: United Nations; UNDP Oslo Governance Centre (2009), 54 pp.
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South Sudan Media Survey: Juba, Wau, Maridi, Panyagor, Yambio and Yei

Nairobi: Consumer Options; Education Development Center (EDC) (2009), 49 pp.
"Radio is the most popular source of information with 98% saying it their source of information. 71% claim that radio is the most important source of information to them and 66% claim that radio is the most reliable source of information. Church is also a strong source of information with 64% claimi ... more
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Doing Digital Media in Africa: Prospects, Promises and Problems

Francis Mdlongwa (ed.)
Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2009), 117 pp.
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Global Information Society Watch 2009: Focus on Access to Online Information and Knowledge – Advancing Human Rights and Democracy

Alan Finlay (ed.)
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2009), 231 pp.
"GISWatch has three interrelated goals: surveying the state of the field of information and communications technology (ICT) policy at local and global levels; encouraging critical debate; strengthening networking and advocacy for a just, inclusive information society. Each year the report focuses on ... more
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Media Culpa? Nairobi Community Radio Stations and the Postelection Violence

Hélène Mercier
Lund University (2009), viii, 58 pp.
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How Hollywood Projects Foreign Policy

Sally-Ann Totman
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2009), xii, 226 pp.
"This book examines US foreign policy toward the so-called 'rogue states' and the products of the Hollywood film industry in relation to these states, which promises to make a significant contribution to our understanding of the 'soft power' that is popular culture." (Publisher description)
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La video dans le developpement: Filmer pour le changement rural

Rico Lie, Andreas Mandler
Wageningen; Rome; Rome: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA); FAO (2009), v, 60 pp.
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Cartooning in Africa
Deep Insights

John A. Lent (ed.)
Cresskill: Hampton Press (2009), xi, 383 pp.
"This volume documents from historical and contemporary perspectives, the situations, trends and issues of cartooning in a number of African countries, and profiles the individuals, forms and phenomena that stand out. All types of cartooning are covered, including comic books, comic strips, gag and ... more
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Freedom on the Net: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media

Freedom House (2009), 123 pp.