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Shaping Global Cultures Through Screenwriting: Women Who Write Our Worlds

Rose Ferrell, Rosanne Welch (eds.)
Bristol: Intellect (2025), 658 pp.
"This volume, Shaping Global Cultures through Screenwriting: Women Who Write Our Worlds, tells stories of women who have worked with and within communities to bring the communities’ stories to life through screenwriting. In gathering these examples, we asked for stories that achieved some level ... more
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The Political Economy of Indigenous Local Media for Minority Languages in Zimbabwe: A Case of Lyeja FM Community Radio

Limukani Mathe, Gilbert Motsaathebe
Journal of Asian and African Studies, volume 60, issue 1 (2025), pp. 5-17
"This article analyses the political economy of indigenous language media for minority ethnolinguistic groups in Zimbabwe. Using political economy as theory, the study engaged members of Lyeja-Nyai Development Trust to analyse socio-cultural and political challenges for Lyeja FM community radio of t ... more
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Human Development and the Data Revolution
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Sanna Ojanperä, Eduardo López, Mark Graham (eds.)
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2025), xi, 294 pp.
"Human Development and the Data Revolution tackles a topic that in the age of data and digitalization has become timely in global development: what are the potential uses of large-scale data in the contexts of development, in particular, what techniques, data sources, and possibilities exist for har ... more
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ICTs, Smallholder Agriculture and Farmers’ Livelihood Improvement in Developing Countries: Evidence from Tanzania

Gabriel Kanuti Ndimbo, Lerong Yu, Andam Andin Ndi Buma
Information Development, volume 41, issue 2 (2025), pp. 368-387
"Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are among the profound tools to help the poor and marginalized rural smallholder farmers make a difference in their lives. This paper seeks to understand how the recent development of ICTs helps increase agricultural productivity and improve smallho ... more
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State-Sponsored Disinformation Around the Globe: How Politicians Deceive their Citizens

Martin Echeverría Victoria, Sara Garcia Santamaria, Daniel C. Hallin (eds.)
Oxford: Routledge (2025), xiii, 336 pp.
"This book explores the pervasive and globalised trajectory of domestic disinformation. It describes specific operations and general apparatuses of disinformation that are sponsored by the State institutions in several countries around the world, such as governments, political parties, and politicia ... more
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End Term evaluation of the Media Council of Tanzania (MCT) programme support 2018-2024. Final report

Greg Moran, Marko Gideon
Sundbyberg: Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) (2025), x, 59, 28 pp.
"The Media Council of Tanzania (MCT) was established in 1995 as a self-regulatory body to oversee and promote media ethics and resolve complaints over media practice. MCT’s activities have since expanded to include training and advocacy on laws, policies, and protecting key rights for the media. S ... more
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Even before wartime restrictions, Sudan media faced weak public backing for press freedom

Caroline Nakayiza, Doreen Okisai
Afrobarometer (2025), 12 pp.
"This dispatch looks at Sudanese citizens’ attitudes regarding media freedom as of late 2022, i.e. during the period between the military coup and the beginning of the civil war. Afrobarometer survey findings show that Sudanese were divided both in their support for media freedom and in their asse ... more
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Contemporary African Screen Worlds
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Añulika Agina, Lindiwe Dovey, Michael W. Thomas (eds.)
Durham: Duke University Press (2025), xvii, 356 pp.
"Contemporary African Screen Worlds brings together a new generation of African screen media scholars who explore and theorize the dynamic, interactive screen worlds that have arisen in contemporary Africa due to dramatic global changes in technology. Drawing on long-term fieldwork, extensive interv ... more
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Building AI-based advisory services for smallholder farmers: Technical learnings from the AIEP Initiative

Stewart Collis, Florence Kinyua, Vikram Kumar, Howard Lakougna, Christian Merz, Kirti Pandey, Christian Resch
AIEP Initiative; Gates Foundation; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internat (2025), 18 pp.
"We report technical learnings from five AI agricultural advisory minimum viable products (MVPs) deployed in Kenya and Bihar under the AIEP Initiative. A 800-farmer study found high user satisfaction (net promoter score ∼60). All solutions implement a modular two-part architecture: (i) an interfac ... more
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The revised SADC toolkit on universal access funding and universal service fund implementation 2024

Kerron Edmunson
Geneva: ITU (2025), xi, 76 pp.
"In 2011, working with the Communications Regulators’ Association of Southern Africa (CRASA),1 the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in cooperation with the European Commission (EC) published a toolkit on universal access funding and universal service implementation to provide guidance o ... more
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Decolonising the future academy in Africa and beyond: Institutional development and collaboration

Michaela Pelican, Karim Zafer, Michael Bollig (eds.)
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2025), 236 pp.
"What does it mean to decolonise academia in Africa? Is this important project limited to the humanities? Is it a project for the future? Are there forerunners at African universities today? The contributors to this volume show different trajectories for anthropology as a discipline and for decoloni ... more
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Reconceptualising Multilingualism on African Radio: Language and Identity
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Limukani Mathe, Gilbert Motsaathebe (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), 262 pp.
"This book redefines multilingualism via the concept of radio in Africa. Africa presents unique challenges of lingual diversity which the media still struggles to accommodate, particularly when it comes to indigenous languages. Contributors argue that the linguistic realities of African radio reflec ... more
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Outsourcing accountability: Extractive data practice and inequities of power in humanitarian third-party monitoring

Stephanie Diepeveen, John Bryant, Wasuge Mahad
Big Data & Society, issue January–March (2025), 14 pp.
"Since the early 2010s, humanitarian donors have increasingly contracted private firms to monitor and evaluate humanitarian activities, accompanied by a promise of improving accountability through their data and data analytics. This article contributes to scholarship on data practices in the humanit ... more
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Generative AI in African News Media: Opportunities and Challenges

Trust Matsilele, Lungile A. Tshuma
Routledge (2025), xix, 190 pp.
"Featuring diverse case studies from South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Eswatini, the collection explores how African newsrooms are adopting generative AI. Contributors analyse the use of AI presenters, audience perceptions of AI-generated content, gamification strategies in newsroo ... more
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Basotho support media’s watchdog role, but many doubt that their media is free

Asafika Mpako, Stephen Ndoma
Afrobarometer (2025), 9 pp.
"According to the 2024 Afrobarometer survey, strong majorities of Basotho value media freedom and say the media should act as a watchdog over the government, constantly investigating and reporting on government mistakes and corruption. But on whether media freedom exists in practice in their country ... more
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The World’s Most Neglected Displacement Crises 2024
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Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) (2025), 31 pp.
"To reflect the neglect faced by both displaced people and their host countries, NRC (Norwegian Refugee Council) revised the report’s methodology this year to include refugee-hosting nations experiencing severe crises of their own. As a result, Iran, home to more than six million refugees, and Uga ... more
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Addressing power dynamics in participatory AI for crisis-affected communities: A case-study from Kakuma refugee camp

Sarah W. Spencer et al.
London: CDAC Network, beta version (2025), 8 pp.
"While calls for participatory artificial intelligence (AI) are increasing, there has been an absence of efforts to engage conflict- and crisis-affected communities in the design, delivery and governance of AI solutions in humanitarian contexts. Without meaningful participation, humanitarian AI solu ... more
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Community Building through the Airwaves RefFM Radio Station and Young People in Kakuma

Valentina Baú, Michael Omandi Owiso
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 32, issue 2 (2025), pp. 261-280
"This paper examines the role that community radio can play in a refugee camp, with particular focus on community building and social cohesion among young people. The article introduces the experience of RefFM in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya. Findings from four focus groups with young refugees in Kaku ... more
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Media Travels: Toward an Atlas of Global Media

Juan Llamas-Rodriguez (ed.)
Amherst College Press (2025), viii, 200 pp.
"Through careful and informed analysis, these eleven accessibly written chapters illustrate the particularities of different media practices and situate them within social, historical, and geographical contexts. Examples range from South African video games to Korean TV series popular in Latin Ameri ... more