"The author presents material from interviews with journalists in Benin and Cote d'Ivoire that defy the belief of some observers that the press in Africa is newly emerging without any traditions [...] Campbell, a former wire service reporter in Europe and Africa, said [at the National Press Club in Washington] that both nations have a lively press history that foreign observers often ignore and that print journalism is expanding outside the control of their governments [...] "My experience as a reporter in West Africa and now my researches show that there is an ethos of independent journalism in both West African nations on which one can build", he said." (Website International Journalists' Network 2000)