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Addressing Mistrust Between Humanitarians and Local Media: Baseline Assessment for “Integrating Local Media and ICTs Into Humanitarian Response in CAR”

Patrick Vinck, Jean-Pierre Dushime

Internews;Humanitarian Innovation Fund (2012), 8 pp.

"Internews' project to integrate local media and ICTs into humanitarian response in CAR takes place in a context of distrust between journalists and humanitarians. According to this report, humanitarians view the media as lacking credibility, depth, independence and fairness, and as monetizing news ... more

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Global Nollywood: The Nigerian Movie Industry and Alternative Global Networks in Production and Distribution

Jade Miller

Global Media and Communication, volume 8, issue 2 (2012), pp. 117-134

"While Nollywood, Nigeria’s video industry, is largely separate from dominant global cultural industry networks of production inputs and distribution, it is an industry that is still globally linked in a number of ways. In this article, I investigate the nature and layout of these connections via ... more

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Storytelling in World Cinemas. Vol. 1: Forms

Lina Khatib (ed.)

London; New York: Wallflower Press (2012), xi, 208 pp.

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Medias et démocratie au Burkina Faso

Serge Théophile Balima, Augustin Loada, Nestorine Sangaré

Dakar; Leiden: CODESRIA;African Studies Centre (2012), 108 pp.

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Diásporas, migrações, tecnologias da comunicação e identidades transnacionais;Diásporas, migraciones, tecnologías de la comunicación e identidades transnacionales;Diaspora, Migration, Communication Technologies and Transnational Identities;Diasporas, migrations, technologies de la communication et identités transnationales

Denise Cogo, Mohammed ElHajji, Amparo Huertas (eds.)

Barcelona: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Institut de la Comunicació (InCom-UAB) (2012), 527 pp.

"While the empirical emphasis of this book is on diasporic groups and their experiences with mainly new communication technologies, the topic is embedded in a broader set of questions that inform social sciences today. The book speaks to and analyses convergence cultures, community building, transna ... more

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The Media and the Political Crisis in Côte D’Ivoire

Zio Moussa

Legon; Copenhagen: Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA);International Media Support (IMS) (2012), 62 pp.

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Global Information Society Watch 2012. The Internet and Corruption: Transparency and Accountability Online

Karen Banks (ed.)

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Hivos (2012), 273 pp.

"GISWatch 2012 explores how the internet is being used to ensure transparency and accountability, the challenges that civil society activists face in fighting corruption, and when the internet fails as an enabler of a transparent and fair society. The eight thematic reports and 48 country reports pu ... more

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Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana

Jenna Burrell

Cambridge, Mass; London: MIT Press (2012), xi, 235 pp.

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A Pilot Study for GFMD’s Media Development Toolkit: Testing Standards, Strengthening Professionalism. An Assessment of Ghana’s Media Landscape

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA);IREX;Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) (2012), 49 pp.

"The study did not aim to carry out new surveys or collect information that was not already publicly available. Since the toolkit is aimed at providing media development organizations with a tool to assess media landscapes without having to carry out extensive new research, the Ghana study worked on ... more

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Muslims and New Media in West Africa: Pathways to God

Dorothea E. Schulz

Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2012), xviii, 306 pp.

"Although Islam is not new to West Africa, new patterns of domestic economies, the promise of political liberalization, and the proliferation of new media have led to increased scrutiny of Islam in the public sphere. Dorothea E. Schulz shows how new media have created religious communities that are ... more

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A Bibliography of Academic Work on Nigerian and Ghanaian Video Films

Jonathan Haynes

Journal of African Cinemas, volume 4, issue 1 (2012), pp. 99-133

"This reckoning of the academic work that has been published on Nigerian and Ghanaian video films does not include theses and dissertations, of which many have been written. I have included as many books on the subject as possible whatever their character, but in order to make the project manageable ... more

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The Global Information Technology Report 2012: Living in a Hyperconnected World

Soumitra Dutta, Beñat Bilbao-Osorio (eds.)

Geneva: World Economic Forum;INSEAD (2012), 413 pp.

"The Report is composed of four thematic parts. Part 1 describes the conceptual framework and relates the findings of the Networked Readiness Index (NRI) 2012. In addition, Part 1 features selected expert contributions on the general theme of hyperconnectivity. Part 2 includes two case studies showi ... more

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The Historic "Core Curriculum" and the Book Market in Islamic West Africa

Bruce Hall, Charles Stewart

In: The Trans-Saharan Book Trade

Bruce S. Hall; Charles C. Stewart (eds.)

Brill (2011), pp. 109-174

"Much work has been done to map out the contours of Islamic intellectual production in West Africa before the twentieth century. However, we still do not understand very well the process by which ideas and texts circulated in the region. Lists of specific books imported by West Africans during the n ... more

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The Trans-Saharan Book Trade: Manuscript Culture, Arabic Literacy and Intellectual History in Muslim Africa

Graziano Krätli, Ghislaine Lydon (eds.)

Leiden; Boston: Brill (2011), xii, 422 pp.

"As the manuscript treasures in the libraries of Timbuktu and throughout the northwestern quarter of Africa become known, many questions are raised. How did a manuscript culture flourish in the Sahara and in Muslim Africa more generally? Under what conditions did African intellectuals thrive, and ho ... more

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Poverty Reduction with Strategic Communication: Moving from Awareness Raising to Sustained Citizen Participation

Masud Mozammel (ed.)

Washington, DC: World Bank, Communication for Governance and Accountability Program (CommGAP) (2011), x, 92 pp.

"This publication updates a 2005 review of communication in Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRS). It includes four country case studies (Ghana, Tanzania, Moldova, and Nepal) and a regional analysis of Latin America and the Caribbean. It explores how the use of strategic communication has expanded beyo ... more

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Global Flows, Media and Developing Democracies: The Ghanaian Case

Seyram Avle

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 3, issue 2 (2011), pp. 7-23

"This article presents a combination of factors as a framework for examining how globalization and media impact developing democracies in the Global South. In particular, it pays attention to the interplay of changing technologies, regulatory regimes and local entrepreneurs with global expertise (ob ... more

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The Representation of African Traditional Religion and Culture in Nigeria Popular Films

Innocent Ebere Uwah

Politics and Religion, volume 5, issue 1 (2011), pp. 81-101

"One of the ways by which religious rituals communicate in African society is by maintaining cohesion in the culture. They connect participants to richer meanings and larger forces of their community. Even in representational models, rituals create solidarity in the form of subjective experiences of ... more

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Barometre des Médias Africains: Guinee 2011

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2011), 120 pp.

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Radio Content in the Digital Age: The Evolution of a Sound Medium

Angeliki Gazi, Guy Starkey, Stanislaw Jedrzejewski (eds.)

Bristol: intellect (2011), 254 pp.

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Côte D’Ivoire: Media and Telecoms Landscape Guide

infoasaid (2011), 87 pp.