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Africa screams: Das Böse in Kino, Kunst und Kult

Tobias Wendl (ed.)
Wuppertal: Peter Hammer Verlag (2004), 288 pp.
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Issues in Professional and Union Rights of Women Journalists

Lanre Arogundade, Tunde Aremu (eds.)
Lagos: International Press Centre (IPC) (2004), 77 pp.
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Mondialisation et technologies de la communication en Afrique

Annie Chéneau-Loquay (dir.)
Paris: Karthala (2004), 322 pp.
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"Praise the Lord": Popular Cinema and Pentecostalite Style in Ghana’s New Public Sphere

Birgit Meyer
American Ethnologist, volume 31, issue 1 (2004), pp. 92-110
"In this article I examine the elective affinity between Pentecostalism and the vibrant video-film industry that has flourished in the wake of Ghana’s adoption of a democratic constitution. I argue that, as a result of the liberalization and commercialization of the media, a new public sphere has ... more
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Book Publishing in Nigeria

Chukwuemeka Ike
[no publisher] (2004), 4 pp.
"A short but succinct four page overview of the book publishing industry in Nigeria, which has been in steady decline since the 1980s: "At one stage, prospects for the book industry in Nigeria appeared rosy. The Federal Government established paper and pulp making industries, and an elaborate plan w ... more
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Language, the Mass Media and Democracy in Ghana

Kwesi Yankah
Accra: Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS) (2004), 26 pp.
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Hautnah: Berührungen mit Menschen im Herzen Afrikas

Jürgen Escher, Christian Frevel
Herford: Sparkasse Herford (2004), 128 pp.
"Die eindringlichen Porträts dieses Bandes entstanden in der Republik Kongo, in Uganda, Burundi und Ruanda, in Staaten also, die wir überwiegend aus betrüblichen Weltnachrichten kennen. Über einzelne Menschen, ihr ganz persönliches Leben und Schicksal, ihre Hoffnungen und Aussichten erfahren wi ... more
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Etat des medias dans la region des Grands Lacs: Synthèse d'une étude réalisée par la LDGL au Burundi, en République Démocratique du Congo et au Rwanda

Kigali: Ligue des Droits de la personne dans la région des Grands Lacs (LDGL) (2004), 106 pp.
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Right to Information in West Africa

Brussels; Accra: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ); Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) (2004), 43 pp.
"The evidence of the Ghana and Nigeria experiences suggests that prospects of realising the right to information are more propitious if the challenge is civil society led and driven. The successful passage of a right to information act in any one country should also provide the necessary impetus for ... more
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Evaluation of Search for Common Ground Activities in Sierra Leone

Paul Everett, Tennyson Williams, Mary Myers
Search for Common Ground (2004), 46 pp.
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Länderheft Kongo: Geschichte eines geschundenen Landes

Bernd Ludermann, Martin Keiper (eds.)
Hamburg: Evangelisches Missionswerk in Deutschland (EMW) (2004), 239 pp.
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Radio Okapi as Peacebuilder: A Case Study of Radio Okapi in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Michelle Betz
Great Lakes Research Journal, volume 1 (2004), pp. 38-50
"The lessons taught by Radio Okapi are many: There needs to be a myriad of players and partners involved including IGOs, NGOs, and citizens of the country/ies in question. The UN on its own may not be sufficient particularly in a region where its mission may not be understood; We need to find some w ... more
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Entre tradition orale et nouvelles technologies: òu vont les mass média au Sénégal?

Martin Taureg, Frank Wittmann (eds.)
Mainz: Universität Mainz, Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien (2004), 171 pp.
"Dans les démocraties africaines encore fragiles et à citoyenneté postulée, ce livre, en prenant l’exemple du Sénégal, pose la question des mass média sénégalais dans la perspective historique de leur émergence, dans leurs tiraillements ontologiques (tradition ou modernité) et dans leur ... more
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Réconciliation en Afrique et en Europe: Impressions d'un atelier du travail. Bonn, 10. Februar 2004

Gerhard Pauli, Heinz Werner Wessler (eds.)
Bonn: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2004), 84 pp.
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Media's Role in Peacebuilding

Michael C. Aho
Fairfax: George Mason University, Thesis (2004), 87 pp.
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Supporting the Media in Liberia: A Review of the Media Landscape for the Post-Conflict Transition Period

Partnership for Media and Conflict Prevention in West Africa (2004), 76 pp. + annexes
"This report outlines the findings and conclusions derived from the assessment mission undertaken by the ‘Partnership for Media and Conflict Prevention in West Africa’ to Liberia in December 2003. This mission brought together the expertise of a number of the national, regional and international ... more
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Handy-Welten: Globales Lernen am Beispiel der Mobiltelefone. Unterrichtsmaterialien für die Klassen 8-13

Bielefeld: Welthaus Bielefeld (2004), 72 pp.
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Who Owns the Media: Global Trends and Local Resistances

Pradip N. Thomas, Nain Zaharom (eds.)
Penang: Southbound (2004), 330 pp.
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Repressive State and Resurgent Media Under Nigeria's Military Dictatorship, 1988-98

Ayo Olukotun
Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet (2004), 136 pp.
"This study documents a crucial dimension of the resistance of Nigerian civil society to a repressive and monumentally corrupt military state in the late 1980s and 1990s in Nigeria. Employing a neo-Gramscian theoretical framework, the study relates how a section of the media defied censorship laws, ... more
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Handbuch Afrika. Band 3: Nord- und Ostafrika

Walter Schicho
Frankfurt am Main; Wien: Brandes & Apsel; Südwind (2004), 400 pp.