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Media Capture in Africa and Latin America: Power and Resistance

Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara, Bethia Pearson (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), xliii, 388 pp.
"How can current debates on ‘media capture’ be understood within the contexts of Africa and Latin America? This edited collection provides a nuanced exploration of media capture—a critical yet contested concept that examines and illuminates how media can become skewed in favour of power—whil ... more
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How Strategic Information Operations Affect Peacekeeping: Two Case Studies from the Central African Republic

Naomi Miyashita, Zarine Kharazian, Laura De Backer, Kate Starbird
International Peacekeeping, volume 32, issue 3 (2025), pp. 414-456
"Strategic information operations – efforts by individuals or groups to shape public opinion using propaganda, rumors and facts – pose significant challenges to peacekeeping missions. These operations undermine trust, hinder communication with the public and complicate the implementation of peac ... more
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Ruanda 1994 bis heute: Vom Vorhof der Hölle zum Modell für Afrika - Wahrheit und Schein in Ruanda

Gerd Hankel
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2025), 170 pp.
"1994 kam es in Ruanda zu einem Völkermord, bei dem radikale Angehörige der Bevölkerungsgruppe der Hutus innerhalb von drei Monaten Hundertausende Menschen aus der Tutsi-Minderheit wie auch viele gemäßigte Hutus umbrachten. Gut 30 Jahre später gilt Ruanda vor allem in Europa und den USA als Vo ... more
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Artificial Intelligence's Impact on Persons with Disabilites in Africa
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Jerry John Kponyo, Bernard Chiira, Christopher Harrison, Hanyurwimfura Damien (eds.)
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST); Assistive Technologies for Disability Trust (AT4D); Next Step Foundation; Tangaza University College; Kenya National Commission for Science, Technology, and Innovation (NACOSTI) (2025), ix, 169 pp.
"Artificial intelligence has the potential to improve the daily lives of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) in Africa in practical, cumulative ways—transcribing, translating, summarizing, personalizing, and predicting to reduce routine frictions in school, work, health, mobility, and access to publi ... more
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Online harassment of journalists in Nigeria: Audience motivations and solutions

Temple Uwalaka, Azubuike Fred Amadi, Bigman Nwala, Peter Wokoro
Media International Australia, volume 194, issue 1 (2025), pp. 115-130
"This study investigates the motivations for the hostility towards the press by the audience and how to control online harassment of journalists in Nigeria. Data for this study are from online and face-to-face semi-structured interviews of 54 Nigerians in Nigeria. Finding shows that perceived journa ... more
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Télécoms en Mauritanie: L’impact des crédits de communication

Taghi Cheikhna Mohamed Taghioullah
Paris: L'Harmattan (2025), xviii, 224 pp.
"Cet ouvrage propose une lecture croisée du marketing et de la régulation dans le secteur des télécommunications mauritanien. À partir des comportements d’achat de crédit de communication, il interroge les enjeux de transparence tarifaire, d’équité et de gouvernance publique. L’auteur ... more
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Mapping the information integrity landscape in West Africa: An annotated bibliography

Zara Schoeder, Liz Orembo, Marie Batista
Cape Town: Research ICT Africa (2025), 26 pp.
"This annotated bibliography is organised into four sections. Section 1 demonstrates how disinformation emerges as the most prominent topic in the literature on information integrity. Several different kinds of agents of disinformation operate within West Africaʼs information sphere. These range fr ... more
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Digital Shadows: Deepfakes Used As Violence Against Women in Journalism and Politics During African Elections

Risper Akinyi, Josephine Miliza, Mwara Gichanga, Sarah Kiden et al.
Kibera: Tanda Community Network (2025), 77 pp.
"This report delves into the growing threat of deepfakes as a tool for technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TfGBV) against women in politics and journalism during elections across Africa. With increasing reliance on digital tools and artificial intelligence (AI), deepfakes pose a serious ri ... more
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WhatsApp in the World: Disinformation, Encryption, and Extreme Speech
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Sahana Udupa, Herman Wasserman (eds.)
New York: New York University Press (2025), vii, 375 pp.
"Known by the popular nickname “ZapZap” in Brazil and synonymous with the Internet across Africa and South Asia, WhatsApp has emerged as a major means of communication for millions of people around the world. Unlike social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, WhatsApp offers a closed, e ... more
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The Handbook of Conflict and Peace Communication
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Sudeshna Roy (ed.)
Hoboken; Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2025), xxvi, 430 pp.
"This book offers an in-depth view of how intricate and intractable conflicts can be and how the communicative aspects of conflict are equally challenging. The author reviews and guides readers through classic and contemporary analysis in the field, providing a truly interdisciplinary work. Handbook ... more
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Trauma in the Age of Social Media in Sub Saharan Africa

Nick Mdika Tembo (ed.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), xiv, 228 pp.
"This book examines the pervasive phenomenon of trauma and its narrative representation in social media platforms. The book specifically explores how, despite its pedagogical gains, the circulation and consumption of information on social media platforms may exacerbate mental health issues. Containi ... more
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The AI Policy Playbook: Navigating AI Policy Development through an African and Asian Lens

Aubra Anthony, Deshni Govender, Nadine Dammaschk, Golo Rademacher, Kim Willet, Gustavo Fonseca Ribeiro, Sheila Kibughi
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) FAIR Forward; AI Policymaker Network (2025), 70 pp.
"The AI Policy Playbook offers a practical guide for governments in Africa and Asia to develop responsible and context-specific AI policies. Drawing from real-world policymaking experiences in seven countries, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda, India, and Indonesia, the playbook shares less ... 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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Recommendations for strengthening Mauritania´s resilience against disinformation. White paper

Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2025), 18 pp.
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Bridging digital gaps in a mobile device age: Evidence from community telecentres in Ghana

Daniel Azerikatoa Ayoung, Frederic Naazi-Ale Baada, Oswin Aganda Anaba, Augustine Aduko Alu
African Journal of Empirical Research, volume 6, issue 3 (2025), pp. 776-792
"This study explores the usefulness of Community Information Centres (CICs) amidst growing ubiquity of mobile phones. It examines how CICs can play a complementary role to personal mobile phones, specifically in facilitating access to information that translates into social and economic progress. Th ... more
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Camera in Times of Crisis: Focus on Africa

Kehinde Christopher Adewumi, Folasayo Enoch Olalere, Gambo Giles Duniya (eds.)
Bingley (UK): Emerald Publishing (2025), 208 pp.
"The presence of cameras, at the forefront of crises, either in the hands of journalists, bystanders or passers-by and sometimes even parties to the crises, has inspired multiple visual notations, commentaries and perspectives. Thus, efforts and resources are channelled towards documenting crises, t ... 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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Media and Communication Systems for Sustainability in Nigeria

Nelson Okorie, Oluyinka Osunkunle, Kehinde Oyesomi (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), xxix, 541 pp.
"The aim of this book is to advance a research agenda on the potential role of media in promoting the UN Sustainable Development Goals in Nigeria. It provides a theoretical and empirical framework for explicating the potential place of media structures and institutions in tackling issues affecting s ... more