"Les informations récoltées sur le terrain, dans chacun des neuf pays étudiés, et livrées ici permettent de dessiner un état des lieux d'une région où le pluralisme de l'information et la démocratie nécessitent encore de nombreux débats et avancées. Nous espérons qu'elles constitueront
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autant de clés pour mieux comprendre une région en pleins boulversements au coeur de l'Afrique." (Description de la maison d'édition)
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"The 6th meeting of the African Media Partners Network, which followed on from the meetings held in Paris (1995), Brussels (1996), Bellagio, Copenhagen (1997) and Johannesburg (1998), was organised by the network's technical secretariat in collaboration with the Dutch non-profit association CAF/SCO.
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The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted the meeting in Amsterdam, from 6 to 9 Decem-ber 1999. Gertie Hesseling, Director of the Centre for African Studies and representing CAF/SCO, chaired the opening session. Apart from the various presentations of activities by new members and by Dutch partners, the meeting focussed on three main working themes: issues of professional organisation and structure; law and ethics; the use of new information and communication technologies (NICT), training and pro-duction. Work took place in plenary sessions following a programme designed to allow flexibility and debate. The object of the present report is to provide a faithful (but not exhaustive) record of thepresentations and the debates to which the meeting gave rise. The programme and the list of delegates are provided in annex." (Page 1)
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"An overview of the state of publishing in Africa, reviewing the major problems facing the book industries, and the role of the church and church publishers in book development. Includes some statistics of the number of publishers in Africa: secular, Catholic, and Protestant. Also reports about the
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establishment of the Association of Catholic Publishers in Africa based in Nairobi." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1720)
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"This handbook of source texts for Christian communicators in Africa contains a rich variety of nearly twenty documents from official meetings throughout Africa from 1970 to 1991. The first Pan-African Meeting of the Episcopal Conferences on Social Communications (Ibadan, 1973) and the SECAM Plenary
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Assembly on the theme "Evangelization in Africa through the Communications Media" (Lome, 1990) receive special attention. Other seminal meetings were the Conference on Effective Communication in Development (Lusaka, 1971), the WACC Pan-African Symposium on Christian Communication (Harare, 1987) and the AMECEA_Sonolux Grassroots Communication Symposium (Lusaka, 1988)." (Back cover)
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