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The World’s Most Neglected Displacement Crises 2024
Deep Insights
Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) (2025), 31 pp.
"To reflect the neglect faced by both displaced people and their host countries, NRC (Norwegian Refugee Council) revised the report’s methodology this year to include refugee-hosting nations experiencing severe crises of their own. As a result, Iran, home to more than six million refugees, and Uga
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"Artificial intelligence has the potential to improve the daily lives of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) in Africa in practical, cumulative ways—transcribing, translating, summarizing, personalizing, and predicting to reduce routine frictions in school, work, health, mobility, and access to publi
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WhatsApp in the World: Disinformation, Encryption, and Extreme Speech
Deep Insights
New York: New York University Press (2025), vii, 375 pp.
"Known by the popular nickname “ZapZap” in Brazil and synonymous with the Internet across Africa and South Asia, WhatsApp has emerged as a major means of communication for millions of people around the world. Unlike social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, WhatsApp offers a closed, e
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Contemporary African Screen Worlds
Deep Insights
Durham: Duke University Press (2025), xvii, 356 pp.
"Contemporary African Screen Worlds brings together a new generation of African screen media scholars who explore and theorize the dynamic, interactive screen worlds that have arisen in contemporary Africa due to dramatic global changes in technology. Drawing on long-term fieldwork, extensive interv
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Mapping the information integrity landscape in West Africa: An annotated bibliography
Cape Town: Research ICT Africa (2025), 26 pp.
"This annotated bibliography is organised into four sections. Section 1 demonstrates how disinformation emerges as the most prominent topic in the literature on information integrity. Several different kinds of agents of disinformation operate within West Africaʼs information sphere. These range fr
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Camera in Times of Crisis: Focus on Africa
Bingley (UK): Emerald Publishing (2025), 208 pp.
"The presence of cameras, at the forefront of crises, either in the hands of journalists, bystanders or passers-by and sometimes even parties to the crises, has inspired multiple visual notations, commentaries and perspectives. Thus, efforts and resources are channelled towards documenting crises, t
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Technical study on telecommunication and ICT infrastructure data, costs and analysis in Nigeria
Geneva: ITU (2025), ix, 72 pp.
"This study analyses the costs of connecting to the Internet and providing Internet services in Nigeria for fibre-optic network connectivity, microwave links, mobile broadband cellular links, and cellular communications. The analysis has focused on the capital expenditure (capex) of telecommunicatio
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"Several UN peacekeeping operations communicate with the populations in their host state through radio, which remains the most popular medium in many countries. UN strategic communications via radio can help reduce violence against civilians, both during and after armed conflict. This protective eff
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Shaping Global Cultures Through Screenwriting: Women Who Write Our Worlds
Bristol: Intellect (2025), 658 pp.
"This volume, Shaping Global Cultures through Screenwriting: Women Who Write Our Worlds, tells stories of women who have worked with and within communities to bring the communities’ stories to life through screenwriting. In gathering these examples, we asked for stories that achieved some level
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Intelligence artificielle et robotique autonome: Enjeux et défis contemporains dans l’espace francophone
Paris: L'Harmattan (2025), 358 pp.
"Cet ouvrage propose une analyse nuancée des transformations induites par l'IA et la robotique autonome dans l'espace francophone. Il insiste sur son potentiel à façonner durablement les sociétés contemporaines. S'appuyant sur des exemples concrets et des études de cas, l'ouvrage fournit un ca
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The African Book Industry: Trends, Challenges & Opportunities for Growth
Deep Insights
Paris: UNESCO (2025), 249 pp.
"Thanks to its outstanding literary talent and growing number of success stories, Africa’s book industry holds immense potential. Although the continent as a whole still relies heavily on imports and foreign publishing houses, it accounted for 5.4% of the global publishing market in 2023, generati
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Why trust the media? Research-based explanations for a high level of trust in Radio Ndeke Luka in the Central African Republic
St. Gallen (CH): Universität St. Gallen, School of Economics and Political Science (2025), 56 pp.
"While several contextual factors in the Central African Republic militate against the high trust in media outlets, especially those that receive foreign funding, a large share of the population trusts Radio Ndeke Luka (RNL). Trust describes a relationship between the media (i.e., the trustee) and
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Digital Surveillance in Africa: Power, Agency, and Rights
London: Zed Books; Bloomsbury Publishing (2025), xxii, 214 pp.
"Comparatively little is known about the millions of dollars now being spent on digital technologies for use in the illegal and illegitimate surveillance of citizens in Africa. In this open-access third volume of Bloomsbury s Digital Africa series, a broad range of African and European scholars and
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Journalism as the Fourth Emergency Service: Trauma and Resilience
Deep Insights
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2024), xviii, 257 pp.
"Journalists have often been considered the "fourth emergency service". They are first on the scene, alongside paramedics, fi re and police, running towards danger rather than away, and providing independent, veritable and crucial information in the public interest. And yet, unlike frontline workers
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Reaching Hard-To-Reach Communities: Using WhatsApp to Give Conflict-Affected Audiences a Voice
International Journal of Social Research Methodology, volume 27, issue 1 (2024), pp. 107-121
"This article provides an original and timely contribution to current cutting-edge methodological debates by discussing the ongoing need to ensure communities in zones which are inaccessible through war, conflict or disease still have a voice and are not side-lined. As seen during Covid-19, traditio
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Radio and Women's Empowerment in Francophone West Africa
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xiii, 239 pp.
"This open access book breaks new ground by examining the significant role played by radio in empowering women in three Francophone West African countries: Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. It examines the representation and perception of key themes broadcast by radio and associated with women's empower
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L’immobilisation pour horizon. Fabrique et enjeux d’un instrument européen de dissuasion migratoire en Afrique de l’Ouest : les « campagnes d’information et de sensibilisation »
Bruxelles: Université Libre de Bruxelles, Doctoral Thesis (2024), 450 pp.
"Cette thèse porte sur les « campagnes d’information et de sensibilisation » sur la migration financées par l’Union européenne (UE) et ses États membres (EM) en Afrique de l’Ouest. Il s’agit d’un instrument de dissuasion migratoire, utilisé par l’UE depuis les années 1990, dont l
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Indigenous African communication and media systems in a digitized age
New York: Bloomsbury Publishing (US) (2024), xxvi, 252 pp.
"Through a meticulous exploration of oral traditions and community-based media practices, Unwana Samuel Akpan, Eddah Mutua, and the contributors of Indigenous African Communication and Media Systems in a Digitized Age explore the intricate interplay between traditional African communication methods
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The Global Faith and Entertainment Study: A Study of Attitudes and Perceptions Regarding Faith and Religion in Entertainment
HarrisX; Faith & Media Initiative (2024), 25 pp.
"The study seeks to understand consumers’ and decisionmakers’ perspectives on how current entertainment media treats themes of faith, religion and spirituality in its narratives and characters, if there is a market for more accurate and diverse representation of faith, and what opportunities exi
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