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Trust in international news media in partially free media environments: A case study of five markets in Africa and South Asia

Anne Geniets
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2011), 92 pp.
"This report is focused on attitudes to trust in international media. It collates findings from 36 focus groups and 11 immersion interviews conducted in Nairobi (Kenya), Cairo (Egypt), Dakar (Senegal), Mumbai (India) and Lahore (Pakistan) in the summer and autumn of 2010 [...] The report explores th ... more
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Media Sustainability Index 2010: Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Africa

Leon Morse (ed.)
Washington, DC: IREX (2011), xix, 411 pp.
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MAPs Without Direction: Media Assistance Projects in Post-War Sierra Leone

Rosemary Quipp
Montreal: McGill University, Master Thesis (2011), vi, 86 pp.
"Sierra Leone‘s brutal civil war devastated the country‘s population and left its infrastructure in disarray. Over the last decade, international organizations have provided financial and technical assistance to many areas of society, including journalists and the media. Media assistance program ... more
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Die Lust auf Liebesromane: Ein kleiner Verlag in Lagos holt nigerianische Literatur zurück nach Hause

Katrin Gänsler
welt-sichten, issue 11 (2011), pp. 34-35
"Nigeria hat eine lange Lese- und Literaturtradition und kann sich mit mehreren renommierten Schriftstellern schmücken. Trotzdem werden im Land selbst kaum Bücher von einheimischen Autoren herausgegeben. Der Verlag Cassava Republic will das ändern. Das ist nicht leicht, aber die Verleger lassen s ... 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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The State of Media Freedom in Africa

African Communication Research (St. Augustine University Mwanza), volume 4, issue 2 (2011), pp. 221-388
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Cybercafés de Bamako: Les usages de l'Internet au prisme de la parenté et des classes d'âge

Béatrice Steiner
Paris: Karthala (2011), 286 pp.
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Project ABC: The Impact of CRS' Adult Education and ABC Program on Education, Agriculture and Migration

Jenny C. Aker, Christopher Ksoll
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) (2011), 20 pp.
"This report provides the results of an evaluation of a CRS adult education program and a mobile phone-based adult education pilot program in Niger. The study found that students in the villages where the pilot project was carried out used mobile phones more frequently and in more “active” ways, ... more
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Community Radio im Reality Check

Johannes Preuß
Medienheft, issue 20. April (2011), 4 pp.
"Kritischer Journalismus kann in Gemeinschaftsmedien die zivile Gesellschaft stärken. Voraussetzung dafür wären jedoch ausreichende finanzielle Ressourcen und ein unbestechliches journalistisches Rollenverständnis. Ein Erfahrungsbericht aus der lokalen Radiostation Arise FM in Ghana." (Einleitun ... more
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The Power of Global Community Media
Deep Insights

Linda K. Fuller (ed.)
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, revised paperback ed. (2011), xix, 272 pp.
"Drawing on both theoretical and practical case studies, this collection moves from developing attempts at local media to case studies and on to cyber-examples. The contributors, all distinguished international communications scholars, present a range of perspectives on the ever-burgeoning area of g ... more
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Piratages audiovisuels: Les voies souterraines de la mondialisation culturelle

Tristan Mattelart (ed.)
Brussels: De Boeck (2011), 304 pp.
Souvent considéré comme une activité des plus nuisibles, le piratage des contenus audiovisuels n’en constitue pas moins, depuis des décennies, pour de nombreuses populations aux quatre coins du monde, un moyen majeur d’accéder aux produits des industries culturelles. Nourri d’enquêtes de ... 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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Perceptions of Public Libraries in Africa

EIFL; TNS RMS East Africa (2011), 101 pp.
"The report presents key findings of the research in six countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Findings were that most people believe public libraries have the potential to contribute to community development in important areas such as health, employment and agriculture. ... 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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Radio in Africa: Publics, Cultures, Communities
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Liz Gunner, Dina Ligaga, Dumisani Moyo (eds.)
Johannesburg: Wits University Press (2011), xv, 320 pp.
"Radio has been called ‘Africa’s medium’. Its wide accessibility is a result of a number of factors, including the liberalisation policies of the ‘third wave’ of democracy and its ability to transcend the barriers of cost, geographical boundaries, the colonial linguistic heritage and low l ... more
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Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa
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Herman Wasserman (ed.)
London; New York: Routledge (2011), xiii, 288 pp.
"Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa examines the role that popular media could play to encourage political debate, provide information for development, or critique the very definitions of 'democracy' and 'development'. Drawing on diverse case studies from various regions of the Afric ... more
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The New Age of Radio: How ICTs Are Changing Rural Radio in Africa

Bartholomew Sullivan
Ottawa: Farm Radio International (2011), 138 pp.
"Low cost, modern information and communication technologies (ICTs), including mobile phones, multifunction MP3 recorders, and interactive voice response (IVR) can dramatically increase the capacity of rural radio to help farmers improve food security in Sub-Saharan Africa. Weekly SMS alerts sent to ... more
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From Watchdog to Lapdog? The Impact of Government Intimidation on the Public Watchdog Performance of Peace Media in Processes of Democratisation

London: London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Media and Communications (2011), 36 pp.
"The article explores the case of Radio Ndeke Luka, a UN-backed peace radio in the Central African Republic. It investigates whether government intimidation influences the radio’s public watchdog role and, if so, in what ways and to what extent, and whether and how the support of a European NGO an ... 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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Atlas de l'Afrique

Danielle Ben Yahmed (ed.)
Paris: Éditions du Jaguar, 4. éd. (2011), 255 pp.
"L'Afrique dans son ensemble : 28 chapitres présentant le continent par rapport au reste du monde. Tous les aspects de la géographie physique : relief, hydrographie, climat, végétation, et aussi l'histoire, les religions, les langues. L'Afrique par régions. Les cartes de localisation avec visua ... more