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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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Subordinating Freedom of Expression to Human Dignity: Promoting or Undermining Journalism—A Case of Zimbabwe

Danford Zirugo
African Journalism Studies, volume 42, issue 2 (2021), pp. 43-58
"Motivated by a 2014 Constitutional Court opinion that under Zimbabwe’s new constitution of 2013, freedom of expression might have to be considered as subordinate to human dignity, the study analyses the implications of this on journalistic practice. The study argues that such a move would undermi ... 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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Digital Rights in Zimbabwe, UPR Submission, Session 40

Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2021), 10 pp.
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Privacy and Personal Data Protection in Africa: A Rights-Based Survey of Legislation in Eight Countries

Hlengiwe Dube, Avani Singh (eds.)
African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms Coalition (2021), 372 pp.
"Of the eight countries surveyed here, only four have comprehensive data protection privacy acts in place: Kenya, South Africa, Togo and Uganda. But as these research reports suggest, this is not necessarily a strong indicator of whether a country is committed to privacy rights, or of the efficacy o ... more
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National Consultations on Solutions to Promote Media Viability While Preserving Media Independence: Consultations on Media Viability in Brazil, El Salvador, Indonesia, Jamaica, Lebanon, Namibia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Senegal and Tunisia
Deep Insights

Amsterdam: Free Press Unlimited (2021), 33 pp.
"The intersection between media and politics remains very strong in several countries under study. In these conditions, there is often little transparency on media ownership and a lack of transparency on local funding sources of media. Relatedly, in some cases, a change in government policies was ra ... more
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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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The State of Press Freedom in Southern Africa 2019-2020

Catherine Anite, Nashilongo Gervasius-Nakale, Izak Minnaar (eds.)
Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2021), 79 pp.
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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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Demystifying the COVID-19 Infodemic: Conspiracies, Context, and the Agency of Users

Iginio Gagliardone, Stephanie Diepeveen, Kyle Findlay, Samuel Olaniran, Matti Pohjonen, Edwin Tallam
Social Media + Society, volume 7, issue 3 (2021), 16 pp.
"This article presents new empirical insights into what people do with conspiracy theories during crises. By suppressing the impulse to distinguish between truth and falsehood, which has characterized most scholarship on the COVID-19 “infodemic,” and engaging with claims surrounding two popular ... more
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The 10 Most Under-Reported Humanitarian Crises of 2020

Care International (2021), 25 pp.
"The analysis is based on online media coverage in five languages throughout the year. CARE sees a concerning trend of crises being neglected year after year. Six out of the ten crises are located on the African continent. The Central African Republic has appeared in the ranking for five consecutive ... more
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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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An Assessment of Malawi Media in Disaster Risk Reduction: The Case of Cyclone Idai

Mwayi Chipambali (comp.)
Harare: UNESCO; Southern African Research and Documentation Centre (SARDC) (2021), 32 pp.
"A number of issues have been raised in this report that will help the media to improve on service delivery in disaster-related issues and to be prepared in disaster management. Not only the media has vowed to improve but also government institutions, humanitarian response organizations and media st ... more
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Media Law Handbook for Southern Africa, Vol. 1
Key Guides

Justine Limpitlaw
Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), 2nd ed. (2021), xl, 416 pp.
"Media Laws on the African continent have been amended, revised and rewritten since the first edition of the SADC Media Law Handbook was first published nearly a decade ago. The reasons for new media laws range from the advent of social media to the realisation of the powers-that-be that, with new t ... more
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Digital News Report 2021

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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Handbook of Communication and Development

Srinivas R. Melkote, Arvind Singhal (eds.)
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing (2021), xvii, 397 pp.
"This incisive Handbook critically examines the role and place of media and communication in development and social change, reflecting a vision for change anchored in values of social justice. Outlining the genealogy and history of the field, it then investigates the possible new directions and obje ... more
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Investigating the Prevention and Mitigatory Role of Risk Communication in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of Bloemfontein, South Africa

Olivia Kunguma, Mosekama Osia Mokhele, Mercia Coetzee
Jàmbá - Journal of Disaster Risk Studies, volume 13, issue 1: a1130 (2021), 11 pp.
"The South African disaster response activities surpass risk reduction since the implementation of the Disaster Management Act 57 of 2002 (DMA) and the National Disaster Management Framework of 2005 (NDMF). Risk reduction, in particular risk communication, remained unexploited until the occurrence o ... more
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Archival Silences

Michael S. Moss, David Thomas
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xiv, 257 pp.
"Archival Silences demonstrates emphatically that archival absences exist all over the globe. The book questions whether benign ‘silence’ is an appropriate label for the variety of destructions, concealment and absences that can be identified within archival collections. Including contributions ... more
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The African Film Industry: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities for Growth
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Marie Lora Mungai, Pedro Pimenta et al.
Paris: UNESCO (2021), 271 pp.
"For the first time, a complete mapping of the film and audiovisual industry in 54 States of the African continent is available, including quantitative and qualitative data and an analysis of their strengths and weaknesses at the continental and regional levels. The report proposes strategic recomme ... more
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Supply Chain Analysis: Malawi

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