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The Ethiopian Journalist: Loyalist and Change Agent

Terje Skjerdal

Addis Abeba: [author] (2017), 27 pp.

"The report is based on interviews with 350 journalists from all parts of the Ethiopian media. The study detects some important changes which have occurred in the Ethiopian journalist fraternity recently. In just a few years, the local journalist population has become one of the most educated in the ... more

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2017 Global NGO Online Technology Report

Nonprofit Tech for Good;Public Interest Registry (2017), 15 pp.

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Enabling the Digital Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa: What Role for Policy Reforms?

Jose Lopez-Calix, Michel Rogy et al.

World Bank Group (2017), 61 pp.

"I am glad to introduce the third edition of a series of reports aimed at discussing macroeconomic developments in the Central African Republic, Chad, Guinea, Mali, and Niger. This series intends to foster public debates on key macroeconomic and fiscal policy options in support of poverty reduction. ... more

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Searching for Sharing: Heritage and Multimedia in Africa

Daniela Merolla, Mark Turin (eds.)

Open Book Publishers (2017), 149 pp.

"In a world where new technologies are being developed at a dizzying pace, how can we best approach oral genres that represent heritage? Taking an innovative and interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores the idea of sharing as a model to construct and disseminate the knowledge of literary her ... more

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Music Activists: A Participatory Film Project. Facilitator's Guide

Musola C. Kaseketi, John Chiti, Elaine Maane

Cape Town; Livingstone: Steps;Vilole Images Productions (2017), 12 pp.

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Community Networks: The Internet by the People, for the People. Official Outcome of the UN IGF Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity
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Luca Belli (ed.)

Rio de Janeiro: Escola de Direito do Rio de Janeiro da Fundação Getulio Vargas (2017), 244 pp.

"This volume is structured in two sections exploring benefits, challenges and opportunities for community networks and analysing a series of community network case studies and forward-looking proposals, from which useful recommendations can be drawn. As a conclusion, this book includes the updated v ... more

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Late Capitalism, Urbanisation, and Cultures of Economic “survivalism” in the BBC’s 'Welcome to Lagos'

Aghogho Akpome

Africa Spectrum, volume 52, issue 1 (2017), pp. 101-113

"This article examines the depiction of three impoverished Lagosian slums in the controversial British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) documentary, Welcome to Lagos, which highlights the negative impacts of globalised capitalism on urban culture in Nigeria’s commercial centre and biggest city. In r ... more

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Mobile Internet Skills Training Toolkit: Tigo Rwanda Pilot Evaluation

Alex Smith

GSMA (2017), 37 pp.

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Image de soi et discours électoraux: Analyse des stratégies de communication électorale des présidentiables de 2011 en RDC

Célestin Katubadi Mputu

Paris: L'Harmattan (2017), 206 pp.

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How journalists survived to report: Professionalism and risk management in the reporting of terror groups and violent extremism in North East Nigeria

Umaru A. Pate, Hamza Idris Idris

In: The Assault on Journalism. Building Knowledge to Protect Freedom of Expression

Ulla Carlsson; Reeta Pöyhtäri (eds.)

Göteborg: Nordicom (2017), pp. 159-170

"The Boko Haram terrorism and violent extremism that ravaged North East Nigeria and Republics of Chad, Niger and Cameroons from 2009-2015 exposed weaknesses in the safety policy and protocols for local journalists in times and zones of tension in Nigeria. Boko Haram terrorists killed 30,000 people a ... more

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Needs Assessment: Strengthening Indigenous Academic and Digital Publishing in Tanzania

Oxford: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) (2017), 7 pp.

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Controversies and Restrictions of Visual Representation of Prophets in Northern Nigerian Popular Culture

Abdalla Uba Adamu

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 9, issue 1 (2017), pp. 17-31

"Generally, images in art forms occupy a controversial position in the Islamic world. The Sunni branch of Islam, considered more conservative and strict does not approve or condone representational art of the human form for fear that it would eventually turn into an object of worship. The Shi’ite ... more

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Listening Groups Module South Sudan. Part I: Context, Part II: Case Studies

Arcata, Calif.: Internews (2017), 39 pp.

"The Listening Groups Module contains the collective knowledge of the Internews South Sudan team gained over three years’ experience managing more than 700 Listening Groups across the country [...] “Part I. Context” describes the information and media landscape in South Sudan, and the value of ... more

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Der neue Fischer Weltalmanach 2018: Schwerpunkt Pressefreiheit

Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag (2017), 736 pp.

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Listening In: An Internews Assessment of Community Radio in Tanzania

Brice Rambaud

Internews (2017), 52 pp.

"Internews set out to take stock of community radio stations (CRS) in Tanzania through a rapid, structured assessment. We were determined to understand the extent to which CRS across the country were providing a valuable public information service, and what barriers could be overcome and opportuniti ... more

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The Zambian Press Freedom Conundrum: Reluctance Rather Than Resilience

Twange Kasoma, Greg Pitts

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 9, issue 1 (2017), pp. 129-144

"As different governments have assumed power in Zambia since the democratic tide that swept across Africa in the early 1990s, the conundrum of a free press continues to complicate governance and journalistic practices. This study investigated how members of Parliament (MPs) felt about press freedom. ... more

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Stylistic Features of Rural Print Media in Ghana

Paul Anyidoho

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 9, issue 1 (2017), pp. 195-213

"Rural print media journalists in Africa tap into perceptions about their readers to produce newspapers. The evolving aesthetic perceptions of the rural print media in Ghana have in turn produced social domains of consumption and affiliation with the newspapers and print media. The style of Ewe-lang ... more

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"The Woman You Want to Be": The Changing Face of Fairlady Magazine, 1985–2005

Aimee Carelse, Martha Evans

African Journalism Studies, volume 38, issue 2 (2017), pp. 115-140

"Feminine identity has always been complicated by race and class in South Africa. The history of beauty pageants, like sporting contests, demonstrates the extent to which culture and contemporary politics intertwine. Examining the cover model choices of women’s magazines offers a fruitful means of ... more

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Citizen Journalism and Democratisation of Mainstream Media in Rwanda

Dominique Nduhura, Michael Prieler

African Journalism Studies, volume 38, issue 2 (2017), pp. 178-197

"This paper explores the role that citizen journalism is playing in democratising the mainstream media in Rwanda. Through in-depth interviews with journalists from two radio stations and by using the public sphere theory as a theoretical framework, this research sought to answer the question as to w ... more

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Global Media and Local Verbal Art Representations of Northern Mali Touareg

Susan J. Rasmussen

African Studies Review, volume 60, issue 1 (2017), pp. 77-100

"This article offers a critique of widely disseminated portrayals of northern Malian Tuareg by outside media, which tend to portray all Tuareg as warriors and criminals and to project pseudo-scientific concepts of “race” onto relationships between Tuareg and other Malians, recalling the now disc ... more

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