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"Entreprise de domination par excellence, la colonisation s’est accompagnée et nourrie de représentations savantes, littéraires et artistiques, des sociétés colonisées, qui ont servi à la légitimer, au nom d’une prétendue mission civilisatrice de l’Occident, ou encore d’une soi-disa ... more
"Les Rwandais et les Burundais ont une culture cinématographique et audiovisuelle captivante et centenaire. Elle a été introduite pendant l’époque coloniale allemande et est ensuite tombée dans les mains des Belges qui l’ont développée après. Au Rwanda/Burundi, ils produisaient des films ... more

Politics and Book Publishing in the Pacific Islands

Wollongong: University of Wollongong, Doctoral Thesis (2008), xii, 407 pp.
"This dissertation discusses interactions between politics and book publishing by missions and colonial governments in areas of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia over approximately 200 years [...] From its inception, book publishing in the Pacific Islands has been a significant instrument of ideo ... more

Media and the British Empire

Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2006), 266 pp.
"'The only true history of a country', wrote Thomas Macaulay, 'is to be found in its newspapers'. This book explores how the media shaped and defined the economic, social, political and cultural dynamics of the British Empire by viewing it from the perspective of the colonised as well as the colonis ... more
"Les Congolais ont une histoire et une culture cinématographique et audiovisuelle fascinante. Dès la naissance du cinéma, ils ont été confrontés à cette invention qui était à la fois un art et un instrument de propagande. La politique du gouvernement colonial, dans un premier temps, puis ce ... more
"A narrative of publishing in Kenya from the time of the Berlin Conference of 1884 through to the Lancaster House Conference in 1963, spanning the entire colonial period of Kenyan history. It documents publishing activities during the period, from the earliest information bulletins of the colonial s ... more

La comunicación imposible: Información y comunicación en el Perú (siglo XVI)

Lima: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Fondo Editorial (2002), 141 pp.
"En el presente estudio Juan Gargurevich se remonta a la primera etapa de la Colonia la cual significó no sólo una ruptura en las formas tradicionales de comunicación del mundo prehispánico, sino también el disloque de los instrumentos comunicativos de los conquistadores. El idioma español tuv ... more
"An interesting collection of essays that provide a great deal of insight into the depth, complexity, richness and diversity of African children’s books. The contributors examine the major issues relating to African children’s literature from several directions and from a variety of angles. The ... more

Journaux et radios en Afrique aux XIXe et XXe siècles

Serge Nédélec (collab.)
Paris: Groupe de recherche et d’échanges technologiques (GRET) (1998), 198 pp.
"Ces 200 pages retracent l'évolution de la presse en Afrique, depuis les origines au XVIIIe siècle jusqu'à l'émergence de la " nouvelle presse " privée audiovisuelle et écrite dans les années 1980 et 1990. Analyses par régions, encadrés consacrés à un journal, portraits de journalistes et ... more

The Media History of Tanzania

Ndanda: Ndanda Mission Press (1998), ix, 347 pp.
"The media industry in Tanzania has gone through four major phases. There were the German colonial media established to serve communication interests (and needs) of the German administration. By the same time, missionaries tried to fulfil their tasks by editing a number of papers. There were the med ... more

Journais e rádios em África: Nos séculos XIX e XX

Lisboa; Paris: Intercooperação e Desenvolvimento (INDE);Groupe de recherche et d’échanges technologiques (GRET) (1998), 190 pp.

The Christian Messenger

West Africa, issue 13 (19 January) (1997), pp. 57-61
"Provides a history of one of the publishing products during British colonial rule: The Christian Messenger, a pioneering journal and newspaper (with text in English and in Ghanaian languages) founded by German and Swiss missionaries as a joint venture between the Methodist Church and the Basel Miss ... more

140 anos de imprensa em Moçambique: Estudios e relatos

Maputo: Associção Moçambicana da Língua Portuesa (AMOLP) (1996), 292 pp.

Feuilles d'Afrique: Étude de la presse de l'Afrique subsaharienne

Talence: Maison des Sciences de l'Homme d'Aquitaine (MSHA) (1995), 362 pp.
"En Afrique subsaharienne, la presse écrite à près de deux siècles d'histoire. Longtemps freiné par la faiblesse de l'alphabétisation, son développement fut cependant rapide en Afrique anglophone où elle joua un rôle dans la décolonisation. À la fois cause et conséquence des aspirations ... more

El periodismo en México: 500 años de historia

México, DF: EDAMEX;Loteria Nacional para la Asistencia Pública, 3rd ed. (1995), 373 pp.