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Rapport de l'etude sur les radios communautaires au Benin

Clément Edah
Cotonou (DY): UNDP Benin (2002), 26 pp.
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Evaluation of Talking Drum Studio - Sierra Leone

Amr Abdalla, Susan Shepler, Suleiman Hussein
Search for Common Ground (2002), ix, 96 pp.
"Talking Drum Studio - Sierra Leone (TDS-SL) began start-up operations in April 2000. Within a few months TDS-SL created five radio programming strands that are currently airing on eleven stations for a combined airtime of over 10 hours per week. Though each programming strand has a different format ... more
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Internationales Handbuch Medien 2002/2003

Hans-Bredow-Institut (ed.)
Baden-Baden: Nomos, 26th ed. (2002), 1056 pp.
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African Words, African Voices: Critical Practices in Oral History

Luise White, Stephan Miescher, David William Cohen (eds.)
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2002), vi, 322 pp.
"Until the advent of African independence, Africans were not considered fitting subjects for historical research and their words, voices, and experiences were largely absent from the continent's history. In 13 lively and provocative essays focusing on all areas of Sub-Saharan Africa, oral sources ar ... more
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Measuring the Impact on Farmers of Agricultural Radio and Television Programs in Southwest Nigeria

Mohammed Kuta Yahaya, Olabode ldris Badiru
Journal of Applied Communications, volume 86, issue 3 (2002), pp. 24-36
"In Nigeria, as in many other countries, limited numbers of extension agents (one to 4,000 farmers) make it impossible to reach all farmers by interpersonal means. For this reason, radio and, more recently, television have been used by agricultural organizations to disseminate relevant agricultural ... more
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Health Communication in Africa: Contexts, Constraints, and Lessons

Andy Odassu Alali, B. A. Jinadu (eds.)
Lanham, Md.: University Press of America (2002), vii, 357 pp.
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The History and Prospects of the Nigerian Book

Richard Mammah
Lagos: Mace Books for Synergy Educational; French Cultural Centre (2002), 94 pp.
"Charts the history of the Nigerian book and from its earliest days through to the 1980s and 90s - when the publishing industries went into a period of marked decline - and through to the present day. Examines various aspects of the contemporary publishing scene including issues such as copyright an ... more
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Ghana Publishing Market Profile 2002

Jeff Andrew
London: Publishers Association; British Council (2002), 36 pp.
"An analysis of the book markets in Ghana, providing general background, details of the education system, together with overviews of the general, academic and professional, and school book markets, and supported by a range of appendices and tables." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub- ... more
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Accra's Charismatic Screens

Marleen de Witte
Etnofoor, volume 15, issue 2 (2002), pp. 222-228
"In this essay, I will look at and listen to a charismatic TV screen in Ghana, showing a sermon by the popular charismatic pastor Mensa Otabil in Accra. While watching the programme Living Word I will address the relation between charisma and screens and examine the place of screens in the construct ... more
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Community Radio and its Influence in the Society: The Case of Enugu State - Nigeria

Joseph Okechukwu Offor
Frankfurt am Main: IKO Verlag für Interkulturelle Kommunikation (2002), 327 pp.
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‘Enough is Enough’: An ethnography of the struggle against impunity in Burkina Faso

Sten Hagberg
Journal of Modern African Studies, volume 40, issue 2 (2002), pp. 217-246
"This article analyses the ways in which socio-political opposition is expressed by looking into the morally loaded discourse of political legitimacy in Burkina Faso that emerged after the assassination of the journalist Norbert Zongo in December. Through the analysis of different political statemen ... more
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The Anthropology of Media: A Reader

Kelly Askew, Richard R. Wilk (eds.)
Malden, Mass.; Oxford: Blackwell (2002), 416 pp.
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Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain

Faye D. Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod, Brian Larkin (eds.)
Berkeley: University of California Press (2002), xvi, 413 pp.
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Liberté de la presse, responsabilité des médias, l’Afrique sur la voie de l’autorégulation

Domitille Duplat
Paris: Groupe de recherche et d’échanges technologiques (GRET) (2002), 96 pp.
Dans nombre de pays africains, la liberté de la presse est encore toute relative, et surtout vulnérable, menacée par le pouvoir ou fragilisée par les excès dont les médias eux-mêmes se rendent coupables. Dans ce contexte sont apparues les premières instances africaines d'autorégulation des ... more
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The Internet in a Lusophone LDC: Cape Verde Case Study

Marigarida Evora-Sagna, Vanessa Gray, Michael Minges
Geneva: ITU (2002), 53 pp.
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An Information Revolution for Small Enterprise in Africa: Experience in Interactive Radio Formats in Africa

Mary McVay
Geneva: International Labour Organization (ILO) (2002), vii, 44 pp.
"This working paper tells the story of the growth of independent radio for small enterprises in Uganda, and Ghana. It describes how the radio program Nekolera Gyange (I Run My Own Business) was initiated, how it engages and helps small enterprise listeners, and how it achieved commercial viability. ... more
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The Book Chain in Anglophone Africa: A Survey and Directory
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Roger Stringer (ed.)
Oxford: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) (2002), ix, 273 pp.
"A valuable information resource that provides a country-by-country analysis of the “book chain” in 18 English-speaking Africa countries, together with an annotated directory of the major players that make up the book chain within those countries. Four introductory essays provide overviews of bo ... more
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Beitrag der Medien zur Krisenprävention und Konfliktbearbeitung: Eine Analyse der internationalen Diskussion und Implementierungsmöglichkeiten mit Empfehlungen für die Technische Zusammenarbeit

Jörg Becker
Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) (2002), 71 pp.
"Kurze Darstellung und "lessons learned" von 7 Fallbeispielen, v.a. Radiosendern. Der Autor stellt u.a. fest: "Medienprojekte werden von westlichen NGOs erst dann gestartet, wenn ein gewaltsamer Konflikt vorbei ist. Medienprojekte mit ausgesprochenem Präventionscharakter sind nahezu unbekannt, auch ... more
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L'édition au Sénégal

Assane Wade
Paris: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion (2002), 355 pp.
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Public Health Communication: Evidence for Behaviour Change

Robert C. Hornik (ed.)
Mahwah, New Jers.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (2002), xv, 435 pp.
"This volume argues the case that public health communication has affected health behavior. It brings together 16 studies of large-scale communication in a variety of substantive health areas--tobacco, drugs, AIDS, family planning, heart disease, childhood disease, highway safety--prepared by the au ... more