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Global Information Society Watch 2011: Internet Rights and Democratisation. Focus on Freedom of Expression and Association Online

Karen Banks (ed.)
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2011), 273 pp.
"In the year of the Arab uprisings Global Information Society Watch 2011 investigates how governments and internet and mobile phone companies are trying to restrict freedom online – and how citizens are responding to this using the very same technologies. Everyone is familiar with the stories of E ... more
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African Media Barometer: Togo 2010

Windhoek; Cotonou: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2011), 138 pp.
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Mid-Term Review BBC World Service Trust Project ‘A National Conversation’

Mary Myers
DFID Governance and Transparency Fund (2011), 57 pp.
"A National Conversation' is a 5-year project funded by DFID's Governance and Transparency Fund (GTF) delivered by the BBC World Service Trust (BBC WST). Its purpose is to 'enhance media's capacity to cover governance issues by increasing transparency, accountability and citizen participation in med ... more
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Marketing on the Airwaves: Marketing Information Service (MIS) and Radio

Sheila Huggins-Rao
Ottawa: Farm Radio International (2011), 63 pp.
"Farmers require varying marketing information, depending on their location, local market conditions, crops, production activities, and cultural practices. Radio has the capacity to reach a large audience, and can provide an integrated approach to market information, incorporating all these elements ... more
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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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Community Radio, Gender & ICTs in West Africa: How Women Are Engaging with Community Radio Through Mobile Phone Technologies

Frances Fortune, Cindy Chungong, Andrew Kessinger
Washington, DC; Brussels: Search for Common Ground (2011), 38 pp.
"Women on the air are usually viewed through a traditional model - in the context of their relationship to their husbands or children – and not as individual beings with a broad range of interests and needs. As a result, radio does not currently meet the needs of women, and women do not participat ... 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 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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Communication for Development: Strengthening the Effectiveness of the United Nations
Deep Insights

Elizabeth McCall
New York: UNDP, Bureau for Development Policy (2011), ix, 127 pp.
This publication outlines four communication approaches used by United Nations organizations: (i) behaviour change communication; (ii) communication for social change; (iii) communication for advocacy; and (iv) strengthening an enabling media and communications environment. The second part provides ... 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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"Turning the Page": Hopes for Media Freedom in Niger and Guinea

Ambroise Pierre
Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2011), 17 pp.
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Business of the Spirit: Ghanaian Broadcast Media and the Commercial Exploitation of Pentecostalism

Marleen de Witte
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 3, issue 2 (2011), pp. 189-204
"This article takes a critical look at Ghana’s rapidly evolving broadcasting scene and in particular at the expansion and popularity of religious broadcasting. Sketching the developments of the Ghanaian media landscape, it analyses the changing politics of representing religion in this field. The ... 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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Equivocal Resonances: Islamic Revival and Female Radio 'Preachers' in Urban Mali

Dorothea E. Schulz
In: Radio in Africa: Publics, Cultures, Communities
Liz Gunner, Dina Ligaga, Dumisani Moyo (eds.)
Johannesburg: Wits University Press (2011), pp. 63-80
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‘Paroles De Vie’: Christian Radio Producers in the Republic of Benin

Tilo Grätz
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 3, issue 2 (2011), pp. 161-188
"In the Republic of Benin, we are currently witnessing an enormous proliferation of religious radio broadcasting in various forms, especially with regard to Pentecostal churches. Apart from already established Christian broadcasters such as Radio Immaculée Conception, Radio Alléluia or Radio Maran ... more
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Ghanaian Entertainment Brokers: Urban Change, and Afro-Cosmopolitanism, with Neo-Liberal Reform

Oliver Thalén
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 3, issue 2 (2011), pp. 227-240
"This article deals with entertainment in the neo-liberal age. The key aim is to describe the emerging brokering practices of certain entrepreneurs within the entertainment industry in Ghana, and to explore the effects of these practices. On the one hand these entrepreneurs receive sponsorship from ... more
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The Power of Global Community Media
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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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Young People, Computers and the Internet in Niger

Gado Alzouma
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 3, issue 2 (2011), pp. 277-292
"This article explores how computers and the Internet are represented among young, educated people in Niger and the social expectations that are attached to their use. It argues that pre-existing social and economic conditions play an important role in shaping the meanings associated with these devi ... more
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Cinema in Ghana: History, Ideology and Popular Culture

Vitus Nanbigne
Bergen: University of Bergen (2011), 303 pp.
"Cinema in Ghana- History, Ideology and Popular Culture, is an attempt to start a dialogue about national cinema in Ghana. The primary purpose of this thesis is not simply to provide a historical account of cinema in Ghana, but rather to question and dialogue with the history in order to locate the ... more
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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