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Nigeria Media Use 2012: Digital Media Gap Shrinking, Popularity of Radio Undiminished

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2012), 43 slides
"Digital media should be a part of any communications strategy for Nigeria. Previously ¡§underserved¡¨ groups entering the digital mainstream fast. Internet outreach should be mobile-centric. Take advantage of penchant for information-sharing. But don't forget the continued primacy of broadcast ... more
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Annuaire des radios communautaires de la République Démocratique du Congo

Fédération des Radios de Proximité du Congo (FRPC) (2012), 367 pp.
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Media Councils in Africa

African Communication Research (St. Augustine University Mwanza), volume 5, issue 2 (2012), pp. 135-260
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Information Technology and Farm Households in Niger

Jenny C. Aker, Christopher Ksoll
UNDP Regional Bureau for Africa (2012), 17 pp.
"This technical report seeks to understand the impact of improved access to information technology on farmers’ agricultural production and marketing practices in sub-Saharan Africa, with a specific focus on Niger. Related research suggests in that access to mobile telephony can reduce communicatio ... more
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Global Nollywood: The Nigerian Movie Industry and Alternative Global Networks in Production and Distribution

Jade Miller
Global Media and Communication, volume 8, issue 2 (2012), pp. 117-134
"While Nollywood, Nigeria’s video industry, is largely separate from dominant global cultural industry networks of production inputs and distribution, it is an industry that is still globally linked in a number of ways. In this article, I investigate the nature and layout of these connections via ... more
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Répertoire des médias et de la communication en Centrafrique

Bangui: Internews (2012), 22 pp.
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Mauritanie: Une presse plus libre se prépare aux élections

Ivor Gaber, Don Duncan
Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) (2012), 18 pp.
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State-Sanctioned Incitement to Genocide: The Responsibility to Prevent

Irwin Cotler
In: The Content and Context of Hate Speech: Rethinking Regulation and Responses
Michael Herz, Peter Molnar (eds.)
Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press (2012), pp. 430-455
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Models of and Approaches to the Station Management of Six African Community Radio Broadcasters

Linje Manyozo, Goretti Nassanga Linda, Claudia Lopes
MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, volume 28, issue 52 (2012), pp. 7-27
"This article is a political economy critique that contributes to current scholarship on community radio and development by examining the question of the management of six networks from Mali, Mozambique and Uganda. This discussion argues that understanding the models and functions of management comm ... more
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Muslims and New Media in West Africa: Pathways to God

Dorothea E. Schulz
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2012), xviii, 306 pp.
"Although Islam is not new to West Africa, new patterns of domestic economies, the promise of political liberalization, and the proliferation of new media have led to increased scrutiny of Islam in the public sphere. Dorothea E. Schulz shows how new media have created religious communities that are ... more
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What is Governance? Citizens' Perspectives on Governance in Sierra Leone and Tanzania

Vipul Khosla, Kavita Abraham Dowsing
In: The Handbook of Global Media Research
Ingrid Volkmer (ed.)
Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Blackwell (2012), pp. 289-311
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African Media Barometer: Ghana 2011

Accra; Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2012), 58 pp.
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A Bibliography of Academic Work on Nigerian and Ghanaian Video Films

Jonathan Haynes
Journal of African Cinemas, volume 4, issue 1 (2012), pp. 99-133
"This reckoning of the academic work that has been published on Nigerian and Ghanaian video films does not include theses and dissertations, of which many have been written. I have included as many books on the subject as possible whatever their character, but in order to make the project manageable ... more
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The Nigerian Press and the Challenge of Private Newspaper Ownership: A Study of the Nigerian Tribune, 1949–2009

Abimbola Omotayo Adesoji, Shina Alimi
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 4, issue 3 (2012), pp. 357-376
"As the oldest surviving privately owned newspaper in Nigeria, the Nigerian Tribune (NT) provides a classic example of how newspapers come to serve a common cause while at the same time projecting the personal ambitions and interests of their founders. This article examines the challenges of private ... more
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Barometre des Médias Africains: RDC 2012

Windhoek; Yaoundé: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2012), 123 pp.
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African Media Barometer: Nigeria 2011

Windhoek; Lagos: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2012), 60 pp.
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Strengthened Media for Transparent Elections: Lessons Learned

IREX; USAID (2012), 65 pp.
"The current document is a report on CSML’s [Civil Society and Media Leadership Program] efforts to support the 2011 presidential and legislative elections, primarily through IREX’s Liberian media partners and civil society organizations. It is also hoped that the document will serve as a guide ... more
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Linking Community, Radio, and Action Research on Climate Change: Reflections on a Systemic Approach

Blane Harvey, Danny Burns, Katy Oswald
IDS Bulletin (Institute of Development Studies), volume 43, issue 3 (2012), pp. 101-117
"This article reflects upon the opportunities and challenges of using Participatory Action Research (PAR) with community radio broadcasters in southern Ghana to investigate the impacts of climate change. Through a detailed outline of the methodological approach employed in this initiative as well as ... more
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Storytelling in World Cinemas. Vol. 1: Forms

Lina Khatib (ed.)
London; New York: Wallflower Press (2012), xi, 208 pp.
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Cluster Evaluation Report: UNDEF-Funded Media-Related Projects

Pierre Robert
United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF); Transtec (2012), 40 pp.
"This report is the cluster evaluation of 12 UNDEF-supported projects related to the media. It concerns projects that either focused on media capacity building or included a significant element of work with the media. The projects were implemented between 2007 and 2011; they lasted between 12 and 24 ... more