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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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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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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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Names U Ma Puce: Multilingual Texting in Senegal

Kristin Vold Lexander
European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) (2011), 16 pp.
"Multilingualism is an important aspect of African urban life, also of the lives of students in Dakar. While the students usually write monolingual texts, mainly in French, their text messages involve the use of African languages too, in particular of the majority language Wolof, as well as Arabic a ... more
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Nigeria Talks Climate: The Public Understanding of Climate Change

Susan Cooke, Anu Mohammed (comps.)
London: BBC World Service Trust; British Council (2010), 27 pp.
"From May to September 2008, The BBC World Service Trust’s research and Learning group, on behalf of the British Council, conducted research in Nigeria to gauge public understanding of climate change. The research consisted of 24 focus-group discussions with Nigerian citizens, as well as 31 in-dep ... more
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Ghana Talks Climate: The Public Understanding of Climate Change

Lucy Neville, Anu Mohammed et al.
London: BBC World Service Trust; British Council (2010), 31 pp.
"Many Ghanaians do not understand the science of climate change, although they have noticed changes in the weather and seasons. They tell of rising temperatures, extended periods of drought and increasing variability in seasonal rainfall. Most people, however, do not connect these with global climat ... more
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Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Art Films and the Nollywood Video Revolution

Mahir Saul, Ralph A. Austen (eds.)
Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press (2010), vii, 248 pp.
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Broadcasting in UN Blue: The Unexamined Past and Uncertain Future of Peacekeeping Radio
Deep Insights

Bill Orme
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2010), 73 pp.
"For almost twenty years, United Nations peacekeeping missions have set up local radio stations in conflict-prone countries - 14 to date, seven of which remain in operation. According to this report, some of the fourteen peacekeeping radio stations implemented by the United Nations contributed more ... more
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Community-Radios in Benin: Rahmenbedingungen, Problemfelder, Potentiale

Tilo Grätz
Aachen: Catholic Media Council (CAMECO) (2010), 35 pp.
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Barometre des Médias Africains: Mali 2010

Bamako; Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2010), 130 pp.
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Pentecostalism and Modern Audiovisual Media

Birgit Meyer
In: Media and Identity in Africa
Kimani Njogu, John Middleton (eds.)
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2010), pp. 114-123
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Media Parenting and the Construction of Media Identities in Northern Nigerian Muslim Hausa Video Films

Abdalla Uba Adamu
In: Media and Identity in Africa
Kimani Njogu, John Middleton (eds.)
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2010), pp. 171-184
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A Literature Review: Nigerian and Ghanaian Videos

Jonathan Haynes
Journal of African Cultural Studies, volume 22, issue 1 (2010), pp. 105-120
"The main purpose of this review of the published academic literature on Nigerian and Ghanaian video films is to foster self-awareness in this new field of study. This literature has been produced on three continents and out of many academic disciplines; in consequence, scholars tend to make few ref ... more
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Guidelines for Religious Broadcasting

Accra: Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) (2010), viii, 8 pp.
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Nigeria

Akin Akingbulu, Hendrik Bussiek
Johannesburg: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA); Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project (AfriMAP) (2010), xi, 120 pp.
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Winds from the East: How the People’s Republic of China Seeks to Influence the Media in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia

Douglas Farah, Andy Mosher
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2010), 32 pp.
"The People's Republic of China is seeking to influence the media in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia through a variety of means: direct aid to state-run media in the form of radio transmitters and financing for national satellites; the provision of content and technology to allies and pote ... more
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Bribery and Corruption in African Journalism
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African Communication Research (St. Augustine University Mwanza), volume 3, issue 3 (2010), pp. 367-575
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Interactive Radio for Justice: Mid-Project Impact Assessment Analysis

Interactive Radio for Justice (IRFJ) (2010), 70 pp.
This report details the results of the first year of a two-year impact assessment being conducted on the Interactive Radio for Justice project at its sites of operation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Central African Republic (CAR). Interactive Radio for Justice is a project designed t ... more
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Media Component Start-up Assessment

Washington, DC: IREX (2010), 30 pp.
"A description of the radio landscape in Liberia, and recommendations for the IREX Civil Society and Media Leadership Program." (commbox)
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Applying Local Solutions to Local Problems: Radio Listeners as Agents of Change. An Evaluation of the Impact on Listeners of Radio Programming in Chad and Niger Under the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Peace Through Development Project (PDEV)

Karen Greiner
USAID (2010), 45, 7 pp.
"This report documents the results of a two-month field research evaluation in Niger and Chad on the media component of the Peace Through Development (PDEV) program funded by USAID under the Trans-Saharan Counterterrorism Partnership (TSCTP). Equal Access, a non-governmental organization (NGO) speci ... more