"Annotated listings of over 4,600 libraries, publishers, booksellers, magazines and periodicals, and major newspapers throughout Africa." (commbox)
"The fourth and final volume of the Book Trade of the World, a series of books that aimed to provide a convenient reference tool to the world's publishing and bookselling industries, and to the institutions, organizations, and journals which are associated with them. The information on each country
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is contributed by a leading authority in the field and is presented under 35 thematic headings. The African volume contains an extensive introductory essay by Hans Zell, and an index to all four volumes in the series, compiled by Caroline Bundy. While now inevitably very dated, the books is still useful as source showing the historical development of the book trade in African countries, from the earliest times up to the period of the early 1980s." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 318)
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"The editors attempt to provide "comprehensive, accurate and up-to-date information, in both English and French, on libraries, publishers and the retail book trade, research institutions with publishing programs, book industry and literary associations, major periodicals and newspapers, government a
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s well as commercial printers, throughout Africa, South Africa excepted for the last name group." In all, 4,621 institutions and organizations are represented. Data varies according to the type of organization or institution and completeness and accuracy also vary because, the editors tell us, 45 percent of addresses failed to update their entries or retum the questionnaire. These cases are indicated with a dagger or asterisk. Even so, it provides a formidable amount of information. Librarians proved the best respondents; consequently data about libraries is more likely to be the most complete. Arrangement is alphabetical by country. Appendixes include a subject index to special libraries and to periodicals and magazines, and listings of book clubs, awards and principal dealers in African books in Europe and the U.S. Text is in English and French." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1127)
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"The final report of a regional seminar on reducing the costs of school textbooks in Africa, which took place in Bujumbura, Burundi in 1983, and focussed on raising the awareness of government organizations about textbooks, what measures should be taken regarding the importation of textbooks, the ma
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nufacture and distribution of textbooks, training in the book industry, and regional cooperation. There are contributions from several countries including Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Guinea, Madagascar, Niger, Togo and former Zaïre." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1877)
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"This directory on Christian media institutions in Africa includes: church communication centres, news and information services, publishing houses, printing presses, periodicals, research and training institutes. Listings are by country and the volume also includes an index of names." (commbox)
"Head's knowledge of the structure of television worldwide is monumental, as is his ability to organize it into books. In Broadcasting in Africa 35 authors, including Head himself, have contributed essays which give a comprehensive picture of African broadcasting country by country, and the role whi
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ch non-Africans play in shaping it. Information given for each African nation includes population, receivers per thousand, radio transmitter sites, area per site. Otherwise information varies a bit, with longer discussions for larger countries. The authors discuss the system against the background of such factors as geography, politics, and language, and include broadcasting history and, when available, audience data. The second half of the book is concemed with the ways in which other nations are influencing African broadcasting. Here are discussions of international broadcasting agencies and programs, religious broadcasting, foreign aid, training, research, educational uses to which broadcasting is put, and the commerce of broadcasting. Head concludes with an agenda for further study. Appendixes give technical problems of spectrum utilization, the uses of broadcasting in African political crises, historical and demographic data, a summary of system facilities, and languages used in broadcasting. There is a lengthy bibliography and a comprehensive index." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 650)
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"Les besoins du Cameroun en journalistes — La formation de ces derniers — Organisation des cours de journalisme dans le pays-même." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1494, topic code 110.1)
"A la recherche du bilinguisme — Une méthode adaptée — Groupes d'écoutes — Résultats impressionnants." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1808, topic code 210.321.13)
"Présentation de l'imprimerie pilote de Yaoundé — Son utilisation dans l'optique africaine — Ses publications." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 942, topic code 140)
"Etude, très détaillée, des principaux aspects de l'information au Cameroun — Fournit une masse considérable de renseignements." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1626, topic code 070)
"La République fédérale du Cameroun dispose d'un Ministère de l'Information depuis 1965 — Celui-ci est administré par une double direction: la radiodiffusion et l'information — A l'échelon régional, cette double direction est représentée par quatre stations de radiodiffusion et par six
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bureaux de presse et d'information — Ces derniers éditent des bulletins hebdomadaires d'information, instruments de dialogue avec la population — L'Agence Camerounaise de Presse, placée directement sous la responsabilité du Ministre de l'Information, publie un bulletin quotidien qu'exploitent trois hebdomadaires et deux quotidiens (18.500 exemplaires) — Il existe également divers autres périodiques. Traduction anglaise aux pages 72-73." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 325, topic code 110.1, 131)
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"In diesem sehr detaillierten Werk gibt der Autor einen Überblick über die Bedeutung der Presse in Westafrika sowie über die Probleme, auf die sie dort stößt, zum Beispiel bei der Ausbildung von Journalisten. Nach einer Darstellung der Geschichte der Presse in den verschiedenen Ländern geht de
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r Autor auf das Problem der Pressefreiheit während der Kolonialzeit und seit der Unabhängigkeit ein. In einem letzten Kapitel befasst er sich mit der Zukunft der Presse in Westafrika. In einem Anhang stellt er alle verfügbaren Informationen über die gegenwärtig erscheinenden Zeitungen und Zeitschriften zusammen: Auflage, Erscheinungsort, Preis usw. Der Band schließt mit einer sehr ausführlichen Bibliographie ab." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 214, topic code 110.0)
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"Nach einem kurzen geschichtlichen Abriss untersucht der Autor den Status der Pressefreiheit sowie die zahlreichen Hindernisse, die ihrer Ausweitung entgegenstehen." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 215, topic co
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de 110.31)
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"Présentation de la nouvelle station d'émission radiophonique du Cameroun et évaluation de cette initiative dans l'ensemble du réseau." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1849, topic code 233)
"Darstellung zur Geschichte und aktuellen Entwicklung des kamerunischen Radios (Organisation, Sender, Programme, Empfänger, Nebenindustrien)." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 2424, topic code 210.1)