"From Antigua to Trinidad, this specialized catalog focuses on nearly 700 colonial British Caribbean newspapers published from the 1700s to the present, and will appeal to scholars and students of Caribbean journalism and newspaper history. Entries are organized by colony or country, then chronologi
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cally by date of first issue. A typical entry is spare: Pactor liste, when available, publishing dates, editors, circulation, historical notes, and holdings. This is an unattractive source, with unevenly spaced type and occasional grammatical and typographical errors. The mein drangback, however, is Pactor's breadth of research; he notes that "the findings reported here are the result of a Research Summer Grant provided by the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida." That, in itself is not a problem; it is an importart collection. However, had he examined, for example, other sources such as Newspapers in Microform (entries 538-539), he would have been able to include more comprehensive information." (Jo A. Cates: Journalism - a guide to the reference literature. Englewood, Col.: Libraries Unlimited, 2nd ed. 1997 nr. 526)
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"As political freedom came to the Continent, so did press freedom disappear," is Barton's opening sentence. Although his attitude is definitely colonial, this statement is not as prejudiced as it first appears, for he attempts to put it in a historical perspective by making the case that this trend
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in Africa has happened in many non-African countries which today claim some sort of press freedom. Against this background he surveys in breadth rather than depth first the white colonial press and then the emergent black press in French-speaking Africa, East and Central Africa, Portuguese Africa, "the White South," Swaziland, and "unconquered Africa" - Liberia and Ethiopia. He omits Arab Africa because he feels the cultural differences to be too great." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 27)
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"Les mass-media facteur d'acculturation — Rétrospective de l'utilisation des mass-media à l'époque coloniale — Perspectives." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 24, topic code 021)
"R. Ainslie's book is the first general survey of the press in the continent of Africa. The author gives a historical account of the subject, starting with West and South Africa. Next she studies the situation of the press in Zambia, East Africa, the Congo and throughout Black Africa in general. The
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author deals only briefly with the problems of information in North Africa. Several chapters analyse in detail the development of the specialised media such as TV, radio and the telegraphic information agencies." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 55, topic code 110.0)
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"Yearbook giving practical and historical information for territories dependent on the British Crown." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 2184, topic code 420, 220)
"Sous les auspices de l'association pour la diffusion à l'étranger, des éditions belges, a été créé un organisme dénommé « Congo diffusion » — Le fonctionnement de cet organisme requiert des dispositions permettant aux livres et journaux de Belgique d'être vendu au Congo à des prix ab
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ordables." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 725, topic code 122)
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"Télécommunications dans les anciennes possessions coloniales françaises — Abidjan, Brazzaville et Libreville possèdent une station émettrice — Plusieurs projets sont l'étude pour de nombreux autres Etats notamment le Sénégal et le Cameroun." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: Th
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e use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 439, topic code 422)
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"Die englischen und französischen Verlagshäuser haben das Fehlen einer modernen afrikanischen Presse ausgenutzt, um ihren Einfluss in Zentral- und Ostafrika und in Marokko trotz der Proteste der Journalistengewerkschaften zu vergrößern. Tunesien und Algerien haben die neokolonialistische Presse
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„liquidiert“ und die nationale Presse durch Reformen unterstützt." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1134, topic code 121)
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"Considérations générales (les différents moyens d'information envisagés: rôle des journaux, revues et publications européens spécialisés ; la presse africaine et sa situation ; agences de presse et correspondants de journaux africains ; le cinéma, la TV et la radio (les principales statio
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ns)." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 2379, topic code 070, 210.310)
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"C'est par l'absence des préjugés que le cinéma africain arrivera à donner une image sincère de l'Afrique et il dépend des réalisateurs de films basés sur l'ethnographie, que cette naissance soit effective." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing c
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ountries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 2019, topic code 39)
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"Compte rendu de rencontre internationale, le Cinéma et l'Afrique au Sud du Sahara, Bruxelles, le 24-26.7.58 — Compte rendu de l'acte mené par le service du gouvernement général du Congo — alors belge — dans le domaine cinématographique — Quelques chiffres de projection et d'audience co
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mplètent son exposé." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 2094, topic code 310.323.1)
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"L'auteur traite de la production, la distribution et la projection des films destinés à l'instruction et à la distraction des « peuples primitifs africains » , spécifiquement des populations coloniales du Congo belge — L'auteur s'est attaché à pénétrer la mentalité des indigènes, et
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adopter les méthodes et les techniques cinématographiques aux besoins spéciaux de ce public « particulier » (P. Piron, préface). 1st ed. 1950, 59 pp., 2nd ed. 1952, 62 pp." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 2358, topic code 310.1)
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"The article is based on a report of the information service of the government of the Belgian Congo — It defines the conditions of making and presenting films which make them more effective." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CI
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DESA, 1971 Nr. 1959, topic code 331)
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"Report of a congress held in London in January 1948 under the chairmanship of Mr A. M. Crawley, MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the Secretary of State for the Colonies — Opening discussion: the film and primitive peoples — The commercial aspect of films intended for the colonies — Making films
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for illiterate people in Africa — Some special aspects of colonial film production — Financial problems and prospects for the film in the British colonies." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 825, topic code 320)
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"Rapport préparatoire au Congrès Colonial National, Ve session. L'auteur fait un rapport succinct sur la presse coloniale belge — Il distingue: 1) La presse paraissant au Congo et 2) La presse coloniale publiée en Europe — Pour la première, il en montre la nécessité, et les difficultés de
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sa tâche, notamment — Pour la seconde: les buts, à savoir entre autres: la propagande." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 587, topic code 110.0, 110.6)
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