"Written by one of Nigeria’s most distinguished and most widely published novelists – and for many years now Director of the Nigerian Book Foundation – Chukwuemeka Ike here shares his wide experience as a writer of both fiction and non-fiction, using an informal and conversational style. The b
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ook is designed to lend a helping hand to aspiring writers and to assist them to become published. Part 1 of the book is devoted to writing fiction (creating characters, plots, organizing a story, style, etc.), and part 2 deals with non-fiction (articles, essays, book reviews, biography, textbooks, etc.). The final part provides advice how to find a publisher and how to safeguard the author’s interest, and also looks at the prospects for authors contemplating the self-publishing route." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2510)
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"Founded in 1945, the history of Gaskiya Corporation has always been closely associated with the development of book and newspaper publishing in Northern Nigeria, including the establishment of the oldest surviving Hausa-language newspaper, Gaskiya ta fi kwabo. In the 1940s and 1950s the Corporation
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published a total of sixteen weeklies in Hausa and in other Nigerian languages. In 1948 it began the publication of the national daily The Nigerian Citizen. The first part of the book contains historical articles on the Gaskiya Corporation and on publishing in Zaria and Northern Nigeria, by contributors including R.M. East, Husaini Hayatu, Neil Skinner, and Lindsay Barrett. Part two offers biographical information on 26 past and present personalities in the Gaskiya Corporation. Subsequent chapters describe the present [1991] structure and planned future development of the Corporation." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 794)
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"A report on the state of the book sector commissioned by the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Education, funded by the World Bank and Overseas Development Administration, and carried out by the British Council and the Book Development Council." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan
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Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 846)
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"This bibliography contains 501 annotated citations to journal articles, books, conference papers, and reports on the Nigerian press, arranged alphabetically by author. Joseph P. McKerns, Ohio State University School of Journalism and editor of the Biographical Dictionary of American Journalism (ent
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ry 324), gives it high praise in his foreword: "Professor Ogbondah has given to the field of Nigerian media studies what the benchmark works of Warren Price and Calder Pickett, The Literature of Journalism and An Annotated Journalism Bibliography, 1958-1968, gave to the field of American media studies." That may be, but the misspelling in the introduction and introduction notes of the name of a major journalism bibliographer (Wolseley) is disturbing. Users are advised to consult the author/title/subject index for easiest access. See also "Guide to Students' Research: A Bibliography of Mass Communication", which chronicles research studies, many focusing on critical issues in journalism, at five Nigerian universities." (Jo A. Cates: Journalism - a guide to the reference literature. Englewood, Col.: Libraries Unlimited, 2nd ed. 1997 nr. 87)
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"Annotated listings of over 4,600 libraries, publishers, booksellers, magazines and periodicals, and major newspapers throughout Africa." (commbox)
"A volume of essays on government and international agency policies regarding the provision of textbooks in developing countries, analysing problems and constraints, and examining the economic, social, and pedagogic questions involved in textbook writing for both primary and secondary schools and fo
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r tertiary education. The second part of the book considers the content of textbooks and the influence of textbooks in classroom practice, with examples from texts to show how they relate to the life of the audiences for whom they are written, and the relationship between textbook content and state policies or ideology." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 209)
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"Twenty-eight experts examine broadcasting in 24 countries in this essay handbook. John Lent takes on Cuba and India; Benno Signitzer and Kurt Luger look at Austria; and Marvin Alisky reports on Chile, Mexico, and Peru. Other included countries are Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, the Fede
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ral Republic of Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, the Soviet Union, Sweden, and the United States. According to the introduction, "At present no reference work exists where one can readily ascertain what the broadcast structure is in a given nation and how it came to be. By filling this void, we hope that our work will make a substantial contribution to the field of international broadcasting." This they have done. Most essays include a bibliography; information on history, regulation, economic structure, programming, new technologies, and broadcast reform; and a conclusion and/or forecast. What type of information can be found under "broadcast reform"? In Israel, for example: The reaction against the "leftist mafia," a nickname coined for broadcasters, has been strongly felt in programming and personnel appointment policies. A popular TV satirical program was taken off the air in the late 1970s in response to harsh political criticism. The television prime-time weekly news magazine, broadcast on Friday nights, was cancelled in the mid-1980s on the grounds that the Israeli people should not be exposed to "demoralizing" news on the Sabbath eve." (Jo A. Cates: Journalism - a guide to the reference literature. Englewood, Col.: Libraries Unlimited, 2nd ed. 1997 nr. 445)
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"The paucity of textbooks on mass communications in Nigeria, the economic restrictions on the importation of books, the continued increase of mass communications training institutions together with the concomitant increase in the number of trainees and practitioners of this profession, inform the th
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eme of this publication. The sixteen contributions, by experts drawn from both the communications and publishing industry in Nigeria, are divided into four parts: general overview of the publishing industry in Nigeria (4 papers), research needed for communications book production (4), the contents of mass communications books (6) and distribution and production costs (2)." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 749)
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"This book presents the outcome of five case-studies carried out within Unesco's programme on the Contribution of the Media to Promoting Equality between Women and Men and Strengthening Women's Access to and Participation in Communication. More specifically, it forms part of an action centred on the
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Training, Recruitment and Advancement of Women in the Communication Professions. The case-studies on professional women in broadcasting deal with five countries located in both the developing and developed world: Canada, Egypt, Ecuador, India and Nigeria. One of the major preoccupations of Unesco's programme is to increase the access of women to decision-making positions. The obstacles to the movement of women into management and decision-making positions are particularly felt in the field of communication. A comparative analysis of the key issues, personnel policies and practices of five broadcasting organizations in different regions of the world not only furnishes a critique of current policies concerning women but offers proposals for action which could help to overcome barriers to women's access to high-level posts in the media." (Preface)
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"Frederick Forsyth reveals how he resigned from the BBC to report from Biafra - and attack the British government. Jonathan Dimbleby describes the risks he took in filming 'The Unknown Famine' - which toppled an emperor. Mohamed Amin and Michael Buerk tell how their last-minute partnership in Ethiop
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ia created the harrowing film which so moved Bob Geldorf. 'News out of Africa draws on these and other first-hand accounts of reporting famine to explore the random and often accidental way in which news is selected; the exploitation of the media by both individuals and governments, missionaries and revolutionaries; the distrubing implications of television's increasing dependence on satellites and electronic news gathering." (Back cover)
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"Although a number of books have been written on African journalism, this, according to Ochs, a professor of mass communication at the American University in Cairo, is the first to take an overall look at the continent as a whole, notwithstanding the lack of data and frequent change of ownership whi
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ch made his task difficult. The first 50 pages survey the continent, following which are case studies of seven countries offering representative yet contrasting languages and press situations: Tanzania and Nigeria (English-speaking), the Ivory Coast and Senegal (French-speaking), Morocco and Algeria (Arabic and French-speaking), and Egypt (Arabic-speaking). Throughout he has attempted to show the effect on the press of the extreme diversity of peoples, countries, cultures and politics. The term "press" includes broadcast as well as print media, but in the case of the former the "almost monolithic government control makes research here less productive." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 327)
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