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Media Coverage on Food Security and Climate-Smart Agriculture: A Case Study of Newspapers in Zimbabwe

Innocent Kutyauripo, Nyaradzo Prisca Mavodza, Christopher Tafara Gadzirayl

Cogent Food & Agriculture, volume 7, issue 1927561 (2021), 9 pp.

"Food security is a global concern, as all international and local agencies are putting various efforts to attain the Sustainable Development Goal number 2 of ending hunger by 2030. Nevertheless, achieving food security in the face of climate change seems to be unachievable in the foreseeable future ... more

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Journalism beyond the Coup: Emerging Forms of Digital Journalism Practices in Post-Coup Zimbabwe

Allen Munoriyarwa, Albert Chibuwe

Digital Journalism, volume 10, issue 7 (2021), pp. 1198-1218

"Utilizing a constellation of conceptual tenets drawn from critical digital technology theory, field theory and concepts of digital democracy, this article argues that the post-coup period in Zimbabwe has solidified digital journalism practices in three main ways. These are: (i) the consolidation of ... more

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Supply Chain Analysis: Malawi

Washington, DC: Global Book Alliance;Education Development Center (EDC);USAID (2021), vii, 78 pp.

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Supply Chain Analysis: Zambia

Washington, DC: Global Book Alliance;Education Development Center (EDC);USAID (2021), viii, 26 pp.

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Dealing with the Past: Perspectives from Latin America, South Africa and Germany

Tatjana Louis, Mokgadi Molope, (eds.) Stefan Peters

Baden-Baden: Nomos (2021), 218 pp.

"During recent decades, the question of how societies deal with the past has received increasing attention from political actors, civil society and academia. Yet, dealing with the past continues to be a very controversial issue that causes polemic debates. This book contributes to a cross-regional a ... more

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Youth Participation in National Agenda through Mass Media

Christiaan Keulder

Namibia Media Trust (2021), 28 pp.

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Media and the Coronavirus Pandemic in Africa (Part Two)

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 13, issue 3 (2021), pp. 305-490

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Afrika

Marco Moerschbacher (ed.)

Paderborn et al.: Schöningh (2021), x, 615 pp.

"Das Werk bietet, nach Ländern bzw. Regionen aufgeschlüsselt, einen kompakten und aktuellen Überblick über geschichtliche Herkunft, weitere Entwicklungen und aktuelle Herausforderungen der afrikanischen Kirche aus katholischer Sicht. Dabei liegt ein Akzent auf den Beziehungen der Ortskirche zu a ... more

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The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Journalism

Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Xenia Zeiler (eds.)

Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2021), xv, 441 pp.

"The handbook is divided into five parts, each taking global developments in the field into account: Theoretical Reflections, Power and Authority Conflict, Radicalization and Populism, Dialogue and Peacebuilding, Trends. Within these sections, central issues, debates and developments are examined, i ... more

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Radio Drama as a Tool for Activism in South Africa: The Case of 'Plague in the Time of King Kapital and Queen Corona'

Neroli Price, Laura Garbes

Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 19, issue 1 (2021), pp. 59-77

"How can sound be utilized as a tool for political conscientization? COVID-19 has disrupted face-to-face organizing tactics for progressive movements globally, making it necessary to branch out to more mediated forms of grassroots political organizing. In this article, we explore how sound might be ... more

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Social Media and Everyday Life in South Africa

Tanja E. Bosch

London; New York: Routledge (2021), x, 157 pp.

"This volume explores how, over the past decade, social media platforms have deeply penetrated the fabric of everyday life. The author considers South Africans’ use of wearable tech and use of online health and sports tracking systems via mobile phones within the broader context of the digital dat ... more

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Deutschland postkolonial? Die Gegenwart der imperialen Vergangenheit

Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst, Joachim Zeller (eds.)

Berlin: Metropol Verlag, 2., aktual. und erw. Aufl. (2021), 610 pp.

"Der Umgang mit der Kolonialgeschichte, die hierzulande lange im Schatten der Aufarbeitung des Nationalsozialismus und des Holocaust stand, unterliegt gegenwärtig einem grundlegenden Wandel. Zwar zählt auch Deutschland faktisch zu den postkolonialen Gesellschaften Europas, doch ist diese Tatsache ... more

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Television in Africa in the Digital Age

Gilbert Motsaathebe, Sarah H. Chiumbu (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xxi, 295 pp.

"This book places television in Africa in the digital context. It addresses the onslaught of multimedia platforms, digital migration and implication of this technology for society. The discussions in the chapters contained in this book encompass a wide range of issues such as digital disruption of t ... more

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Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, Anne Schulz, Simge Andi, Craig T. Robertson, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (eds.)

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2021), 163 pp.

"This year's report reveals new insights about digital news consumption based on a YouGov survey of over 92,000 online news consumers in 46 markets including India, Indonesia, Thailand, Nigeria, Colombia and Peru for the first time. The report looks at the impact of coronavirus on news consumption a ... more

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Elections and TV News in South Africa: Desperately Seeking Depth

Bernadine Jones

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xxxii, 244 pp.

"Over the course of nine chapters, Elections and TV News in South Africa shows how six democratic South African general elections, 1994-2019, were represented on both local and international news broadcasts. It reveals the shifting narratives about South African democracy, coupled with changing and ... more

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The Business Environment for News Media in Zimbabwe

Michelle Foster, Jason Lambert

Internews (2021), 22 pp.

"There is a growing market for factual, independent, reliable, and affordable news delivered in diverse languages in southern Zimbabwe. The local revenue sources to fund those efforts are not apparent. In an area of deep poverty, which has only been amplified by natural disasters and pandemic, large ... more

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“In their own words”: Journalistic mediation of electoral conflict in polarized Zimbabwe

Admire Mare, Stanley Tsarwe

In: Media, Conflict and Peacebuilding in Africa

Jacinta Maweu; Admire Mare (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2021), 18 pp.

"This chapter examines Zimbabwean print journalists’ everyday newsmaking experiences during the 2008 disputed harmonized elections. The article is sequel to our article (Tsarwe and Mare 2019), which exclusively relied on qualitative content analysis of a state-owned weekly (The Sunday Mail) and tw ... more

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Radio, Public Life and Citizen Deliberation in South Africa

Sarah Chiumbu, Gilbert Motsaathebe (eds.)

Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2021), xviii, 286 pp.

"As the most widespread and popular form of communication in the country, radio occupies an essential space in the deliberation and the construction of public opinion in South Africa. From just a few state-controlled stations during the apartheid era, there are now more than 100 radio stations, reac ... more

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Social Media Impacts on Conflict and Democracy: The Techtonic Shift

Lisa Schirch (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2021), xv, 239 pp.

"Social media technology is having a dramatic impact on social and political dynamics around the world. The contributors to this book document and illustrate this "techtonic" shift on violent conflict and democratic processes. They present vivid examples and case studies from countries in Africa, So ... more

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Media, Development and Democracy

Heloisa Pait, Juliana Laet (eds.)

Bingley: Emerald Publishing (2021), xviii, 141 pp.

"[...] this book explores the complex construction of democratic public dialogue in developing countries. Case studies examine national environments defined not only by state censorship and commercial pressure, but also language differences, international influence, social divisions, and distinct va ... more

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