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Peace and Communication in Post-Conflict Africa

Africa Media Review, volume 17, issue 1-2 (2009), pp. 1-126
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Media Sustainability Index 2008: Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Africa

Leon Morse (ed.)
Washington, DC: IREX (2009), xix, 411 pp.
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Médias et religions en Afrique de l'Ouest

Dakar: Panos Afrique de l'Ouest (2009), 173 pp.
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Nigerian Television: Fifty Years of Television in Africa

Oluyinka Esan
Princeton: AMV Publishing (2009), xvii, 349 pp.
"Appreciating the challenges, role and prospects of the industry was at the very core of the author's raison d'être for writing the text. The research effort informing the book has sought to capture factors shaping the encoding practices of Nigerian television in its five decades of operations. The ... more
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An Assessment of the Role of Community Radio in Peacebuilding and Development: Case Studies in Liberia and Sierra Leone

Brussels; Washington, DC: Search for Common Ground (2009), 5 pp.
"This five-page report details the results of an evaluation of four community radio stations in rural Sierra Leone and Liberia. The evaluation focused on areas still struggling to achieve meaningful development in a post-conflict setting and was designed to assess the relationships between drivers o ... more
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Doing Digital Media in Africa: Prospects, Promises and Problems

Francis Mdlongwa (ed.)
Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2009), 117 pp.
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Islamic Renewal, Radio, and the Surface of Things

Brian Larkin
In: Aesthetic Formations: Media, Religion, and the Senses
Birgit Meyer (ed.)
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2009), pp. 117-136
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Marke „Osama“: Über Kommunikation und Kommerz mit Bin-Laden-Bildern in Nigeria

Matthias Krings
Peripherie, volume 29, issue 113 (2009), pp. 31-55
"Osama" als Marke: Kommunikation und Handel durch Bilder von Bin Laden in Nigeria. Schon bald nach dem 11. September überschwemmten Bin-Laden-Waren die Straßen und Märkte des überwiegend muslimischen Nordnigeria. Später brachten Sänger und Filmemacher Lieder und Filme heraus, die die Kriege in ... more
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Giving Voice: Instigating Debate on Issues of Citizenship, Participation, and Accountability

Samuel Ayedime Kafewo
Development in Practice, volume 19, issue 4-5 (2009), pp. 678-687
"While there is a near unanimity on the need for participation, there is as yet no such agreement on the type and degree of participation to be adopted in projects. One thing that has never been doubted is the fact that local people have not been accorded their rightful recognition and respect by mo ... more
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TV Soap Operas in HIV Education: Reaching Out with Popular Entertainment
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Stuart Adams
Eschborn: German HIV Peer Review Group (PRG); Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) (2009), 38 pp.
"This publication looks closely at cases where Germany has supported the production and broadcast of television soap operas as key components of Behavior Change Communication (BCC) in three very different countries with three very different HIV epidemics: In Kyrgyzstan, the epidemic is largely conce ... more
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Communication for Development: A Glimpse at UNDP's Practice

Elizabeth McCall
Oslo: United Nations; UNDP Oslo Governance Centre (2009), 54 pp.
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Liberia Media Assistance Strategy: A Strategy for Support to the Independent Media Within the Framework of Liberia's Poverty Reduction Strategy

Lanre Arogundade, Lawrence Randall
Monrovia: Liberia Media Center; Media Technical Working Group (2009), 50 pp.
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Liberia: Land der Freien - Last der Freien

Hamburg: Evangelisches Missionswerk in Deutschland (EMW) (2009), 297 pp.
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Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation

Alexander Laban Hinton, Kevin Lewis O'Neill (eds.)
Durham: Duke University Press (2009), 349 pp.
"What happens to people and the societies in which they live after genocide? How are the devastating events remembered on the individual and collective levels, and how do these memories intersect and diverge as the rulers of postgenocidal states attempt to produce a monolithic "truth" about the past ... more
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Fundamentalisms and the Media

Stewart M. Hoover, Nadia Kaneva (eds.)
London: Continuum (2009), xii, 223 pp.
"Outside the West, religion is an ever more prominent force in social and political movements of both reform and retrenchment. Across these contexts, no issue in religion is of as much concern as fundamentalism - or rather the fundamentalisms within various traditions - which are seen to be fomentin ... more
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Aesthetic Formations: Media, Religion, and the Senses

Birgit Meyer (ed.)
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2009), xiv, 278 pp.
"This book examines the incorporation of newly accessible mass media into practices of religious mediation in a variety of settings including the Pentecostal Church and Islamic movements, as well as the use of religious forms and image in the sphere of radio and cinema." (Publisher description)
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La loi et les medias en Mauritanie

Legon (GH): Fondation pour les Médias en Afrique de l’Ouest (2009), 44 pp.
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Building Commitment to Reform Through Strategic Communication: The Five Key Decisions
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Cecilia Cabañero-Verzosa, Helen Garcia
Washington, DC: World Bank (2009), xiii, 133 pp.
"The Five Communication Management Decision Tool helps reformers and their teams develop a framework for their communication strategies. This decision tool helps managers see change initiatives through the eyes of those who will be affected by the reforms. When the decision tool is used in the early ... more
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Learning to Live Together: Using Distance Education for Community Peacebuilding
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Rawwida Baksh, Tanyss Munro (eds.)
Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2009), viii, 244 pp.
"The book brings together a range of community peacebuilding experiences that apply open and distance learning. The emphasis on community requires distance educators to change focus. The book addresses how to help a community articulate its own purposes for learning and then support it in achieving ... more
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Accès aux nouvelles technologies en Afrique et en Asie: TIC et service universel

Annie Chéneau-Loquay (coord.)
Paris: L'Harmattan (2009), 252 pp.