"Dans le cadre africain dit « francophone », les langues locales sont le parent pauvre de la réflexion sur la communication. Pourtant, une majorité d’Africains de ces pays ne maîtrisent pas le français. Les promoteurs (nationaux ou internationaux) de campagnes d’information et de conseil o
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nt bien été obligés de le constater sur le terrain. Ils font donc doubler leurs discours en français par des traductions improvisées ou non contrôlées en langues africaines. Avec une telle procédure, les concepts un peu délicats sont évacués et les phrases non comprises sont sautées, ou on leur substitue un remplissage quelconque. Le présent ouvrage rend compte d’une recherche menée au Cameroun septentrional avec le soutien de l’Agence nationale de recherche sur le sida et les hépatites virales. On y trouvera aussi bien les résultats d’enquêtes sur la conception et la perception du sida et du préservatif que des études sur les divers discours que tiennent les intervenants du domaine (personnels de santé, hommes d’Église, personnalités islamiques, agences spécialisées). Une attention particulière a été accordée à l’étude d’affiches, de dépliants et de films éducatifs. A titre de contribution pratique, l’ouvrage offre également un guide de communication sur le sida, le texte d’une chanson en langue peule, destinée à populariser un nom du VIH, ainsi qu’une proposition de normalisation du fulfulde véhiculaire du Cameroun." (Dos de couverture)
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"The book was written mainly to inform rural development professionals, practitioners and decision-makers in a variety of organisations – from NGOs and farmer associations to government departments and research and educational institutions – about the diverse uses of video in development. Specif
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ically, it seeks to give decision-makers greater insight into the subject in order to support decisions on the strategic use of video in development. As such, it draws extensively on practical experiences to illustrate the potential of this powerful communication tool for development." (Introduction, page 1)
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"This volume documents from historical and contemporary perspectives, the situations, trends and issues of cartooning in a number of African countries, and profiles the individuals, forms and phenomena that stand out. All types of cartooning are covered, including comic books, comic strips, gag and
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political cartoons, and humour magazines. The contributors are scholars, writers, and practitioners of comic art who are either residents of or research visitors to Africa. Their approaches run the gamut from historical/contemporary overviews, to problem analysis of the profession and cartoonists, to textual analysis." (Publisher description)
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"GISWatch has three interrelated goals: surveying the state of the field of information and communications technology (ICT) policy at local and global levels; encouraging critical debate; strengthening networking and advocacy for a just, inclusive information society. Each year the report focuses on
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one particular theme. GISWatch 2009 focuses on access to online information and knowledge – advancing human rights and democracy. It includes several thematic reports dealing with key issues in the field, as well as an institutional overview and a reflection on indicators that track access to information and knowledge. There is also an innovative section on visual mapping of global rights and political crises. In addition, 48 country reports analyse the status of access to online information and knowledge in countries as diverse as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mexico, Switzerland and Kazakhstan, while six regional overviews offer a bird’s eye perspective on regional trends." (Back cover)
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"This book is about the many ways in which mobile phones are being appropriated by Africans and how they are transforming and are being transformed by society in Africa. A case study from Karthoum (Sudan) shows, how mobile phones are reshaping relationships in a Muslim society, where they enable wom
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en to organize their lives more independently. In Cameroon, the mobile allows traditional healers to assist sick people who are originally from their area but are now far away, sometimes even in Europe or the USA. Another study from Burkina Faso highlights the growing importance of text messaging - as contrary to the overstated orality both of African societies and of the mobile phone. The nine chapters in this volume all show aspects of an emerging mobile culture, be it the linkage between the rural and the urban in Burkina Faso, the youth in Ghana or traders in Tanzania. In all of these, the authors observe a reshaping of social and economic hierarchies in society. Based on the illustrative case studies and its multi-dimensional approach this book is highly recommended reading." (CAMECO Update 3-2009)
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"In dem folgenden Artikel soll es exemplarisch um den Aufstieg und Niedergang des westafrikanischen Pastors Dr. Martin Tsala Essomba gehen, dessen beispielhafter Karriereverlauf in nicht unerheblichem Maße durch die populären Medien Buch und Internet beeinflusst wurde. Die als Taschebuchformat ers
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chienene Konversionsgeschichte des Pastors, „Va, et raconte ce que j'ai fait pour toi ! Comment Jésus-Christ m'a arraché à ma double vie d'homme démon", beschreibt seine Transformation vom Hexer zu einem born again Christen. Er nutzte sein Buch als wirksames Medium zur Rekrutierung, Missionierung und Anbindung von Anhängern für seine neu gegründete Kirche. Außerdem unterstützte seine Geschichte die Popularität seiner Person, half bei der Verbreitung seiner religiösen Vorstellungen und diente der Werbung für seine religiösen Kompetenzen. Das Buch wurde im World Wide Web (u. a. bei Amazone UK) zum Verkauf, aber auch zum kostenlosen download angeboten. Daneben richtete er auch eine persönliche Website ein und warb mit seiner Konversion, spirituellen Seminaren und dem globalen Evangelisationsziel." (Seite 129-130)
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"This World Bank study discusses secondary textbook and school library availability in Africa, its cost and financing, and its distribution and publishing. The study’s objective was to analyze the issues and provide some options and strategies for improvement. Reforms are urgently required in the
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secondary school systems of most African countries in order to: (i) reduce the number of textbooks and reference books required by secondary education curricula; (ii) reduce the unit costs of textbooks; (iii) increase the target book life thus increasing cost amortization and reducing annual textbook fees/budgets; (iv) increase the financing allocated to textbook provision from either government or parents, and (v) ensure that curricula change does not make expensive materials redundant too early or too often. The authors of the study believe that if a reliable market exists local publishing can develop to service it, even in direct competition with multinationals; and that the market does not necessarily have to be large, but that the critical factor is predictability. If publishers are confident that funding will be available, from whatever source, year after year, then local publishing will emerge to serve that market. This, it is argued, is perhaps most clearly demonstrated in Botswana where a tiny but reliable and reasonably predictable secondary school sector has five competing approved textbooks in some secondary subjects." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2556)
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