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The Asaba Massacre: Trauma, Memory, and the Nigerian Civil War

S. Elizabeth Bird, Fraser M. Ottanelli
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2017), xvii, 239 pp.
"In October 1967, early in the Nigerian Civil War, government troops entered Asaba in pursuit of the retreating Biafran army, slaughtering thousands of civilians and leaving the town in ruins. News of the atrocity was suppressed by the Nigerian government, with the complicity of Britain, and its sig ... more
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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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Global Pop: Das Buch zur Weltmusik

Claus Leggewie (ed.)
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2017), 392 pp.
"Der Begriff "Weltmusik" war in den 1980er Jahren die gängige Beschreibung für Musikstile, die aus westlicher Perspektive "exotisch" wirkten. Er stand für unterschiedlichste musikalische Traditionen, die oftmals nicht viel mehr gemein hatten, als dass sie plötzlich für den westlichen Markt inte ... more
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Étude quantitative et qualitative des médias au Mali et de leur impact sur le processus de paix

Free Press Unlimited; IMMAR Research and Consultancy (2017), 170 pp.
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Expanding Influences Research to Insecure Democracies: How Violence, Public Insecurity, Economic Inequality and Uneven Democratic Performance Shape Journalists’ Perceived Work Environments

Sallie Hughes et al.
Journalism Studies, volume 18, issue 5 (2017), pp. 645-665
"Democracies with sharp violence and public insecurity have proliferated in recent decades, with many also featuring extreme economic inequality. These conditions have not been explicitly considered in comparative research on journalists’ work environments, an omission that may obscure important r ... more
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Pattern of Community Radio Ownership, Regulation and Usage for Development in Anglophone West African Countries

Emmanuel Ufuophu-Biri
Journal of Research and Development, volume 3, issue 2 (2017), pp. 30-38
"The findings show that community radio stations in Anglophone West African countries are owned and controlled by the community; the community radio in Anglophone West African countries is regulated along the broad guidelines that guide broadcasting in those countries; and community radio is used fo ... more
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Baseline Report on Women's Rights Online Issues in Ghana

Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) (2017), 31 pp.
"The study found that among women, access to and use of the internet is highly dependent on the type of mobile device used and on level of education. Connecting with friends and family, entertainment and education emerged as the main reasons why the female respondents used the internet. Unreliable y ... more
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Using Digital and Social Media to Monitor and Reduce Violence in Kenya’s Elections

Caitriona Dowd
Brighton: Institute of Development Studies (IDS) (2017), 4 pp.
"Social media and digital technology offer immense potential for citizens, policymakers and practitioners to raise awareness of, monitor, and respond to violence. With Kenya’s elections approaching, technology can help to raise awareness of insecurity, support early warning, combat incitement of v ... more
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Etude sur le développement des médias à Madagascar basée sur les indicateurs de développement des médias de l'UNESCO

Raharinirina Rabaovololona
Paris: UNESCO (2017), 137 pp.
"Cette étude présente une évaluation du développement des médias à Madagascar dans un contexte de retour au fonctionnement démocratique des institutions suite à la crise politique des années 2009-2013 qui s’est traduite par une forte instabilité politique et un marasme économique. Elle ... more
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Reporting Humanitarian Narratives: Are We Missing Out on the Politics?

Suzanne Franks
In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
Robin Andersen, Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)
London: Routledge (2017), pp. 189-199
"Suzanne Franks discusses how the visually dominated storytelling of famines in Africa distorted the causes of famine and therefore obscured the most effective solutions. As journalists struggled to document the depths of human suffering, humanitarian communication in these early stages raised compa ... more
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Médias 2.0 et Églises chrétiennes au Burkina Faso: Évangélisation numérique et contrôle du message

Louis Audet Gosselin
Émulations: Revue de Sciences Sociales, issue 24 (2017), pp. 71-85
"La diffusion progressive d’Internet au Burkina Faso a entraîné récemment un foisonnement de l’utilisation des réseaux sociaux, principalement Facebook, par les Églises catholique et évangéliques. Cette utilisation est toutefois fortement conditionnée par un nombre restreint de gatekeepe ... more
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Journalists in Malawi

Levi Zeleza Manda, Nelson Nyirenda, Chimwemwe Tsitsi
Worlds of Journalism Study (2017), 7 pp.
"Malawian journalists are ambivalent in their roles. They perceive themselves as faithful reporters and objective analysts of current affairs, who not only help their audiences make informed decisions, but also give voice to the people (see Table 1). They also perceive themselves as monitors and scr ... more
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Press Freedom and Nigeria's Cybercrime Act of 2015: An Assessment

Raymond Adibe, Cyril Chinedu Ike, Celestine Uchechukwu Udeogu
Africa Spectrum, volume 52, issue 2 (2017), pp. 117-127
"This study assesses the Cybercrime Act 2015 and its implications for online press freedom in the liberal authoritarian state of Nigeria. Specifically, the study examines how the character of political leadership in Nigeria leads to wrongful application of the act to undermine the independence of th ... 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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Disability and Social Media: Global Perspectives
Deep Insights

Katie Ellis, Mike Kent (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2017), xxii, 340 pp.
"Social media is becoming an increasingly important part of our lives yet the impact on people with disabilities has gone largely unscrutinised. Similarly, while social media and disability are often both observed through a focus on the Western, developed and English-speaking world, different global ... more
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Connecting Communication: Using Video to Open Spaces and Mediate Exchange Between Kenyan Grass-Roots Activists

Jackie Shaw
Institute of Development Studies (IDS) (2017), 21 pp.
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15. Afrika Film Festival Köln, 21. September bis 01. Oktober 2017. Fokus: Landgrabbing & Migration

Cologne: FilmInitiativ Köln (2017), 163 pp.
"Going to the cinema means going on a journey” reads one of the banners in Ouagadougou that have been put up to promote the legendary pan-African FESPACO film festival. Afrika Film Festival Köln has also been taking its guests on audiovisual journeys through African cinescapes for 25 years. More ... more
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Media Development Policy

Lusaka: Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Services (2017), vii, 16 pp.
"I am proud to present the first ever Media Development Policy. This is the first time in the history of the country that Government has come up with a policy that sets out its vision and mission to promote freedom of expression by guaranteeing press freedom. The Policy is anchored on four main pill ... more
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Mouvement interreligieux et usages d’Internet au Burkina Faso: Le cas de l’Union Fraternelle des Croyants (UFC) de Dori

Koudbi Kaboré
Émulations: Revue de Sciences Sociales, issue 24 (2017), pp. 23-35
"L’arrivée d’Internet provoque des évolutions dans le rapport aux médias des communautés religieuses. Il y a une volonté de visibilité externe grâce à l’usage d’Internet comme moyen de communication et comme mode de présence. À partir de l’exemple de l’Union fraternelle des cro ... more
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Watching Out for Media: An Institutional Ethnographic Perspective on the Feminist Democratic Media Activism of "Media Monitoring Africa"

Giuliana Sorce
Pennsylvania State University, Doctoral Thesis (2017), xi, 180 pp.