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The Media in Africa and Africa in the Media: An Annotated Bibliography

London et al.: Hans Zell Publishers (1996), xxv, 291 pp.

Contains index

ISBN 1-873836-81-3

Signature commbox: 100:10-General 1996

"This annotated bibliography is arranged under four major sections: press (579 entries); broadcasting (269 entries); film (381 entries); and general (526 entries), providing a total of 1,755 entries. The bibliography is well laid out, arranged by author and title. The bibliography limits its coverage to those works available at a US or European library. Essential criteria for the author were to prepare annotations and to provide information which is easily accessible to the Western researcher. The selection criteria also preclude most newspaper articles, short reviews and brief articles in news and other popular magazines. The annotations are short, ranging from one to five lines. The coverage, as would be expected, shows a high bias toward South Africa for geographical, political and developmental reasons. It does, however, cover all the countries in Africa. An author index and subject and geographical index are provided which would help the researcher in picking up useful citations. The bibliography also contains a list of journals consulted which includes almost all the important journals in media studies." (K. N. Rao, Collection Building, Vol. 17, No. 1, pages 51-52)
The Press, 1
Broadcasting, 83
Film, 123
General, 179