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Faith-Based Radio: Beyond Spirituality, Encompassing Development

Oluyinka O. Osunkunle, Janina Wozniak
African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 2 (2015), pp. 77-94
"This article aims to assess the activities of Kingfisher FM, a faith-based community radio station, and its contribution to development in Port Elizabeth and its environs. A qualitative data collection method, in the form of group interviews, was used to collect data. The analysis of data indicates ... more
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Building Peace Through Social Change Communication: Participatory Video in Conflict-Affected Communities

Valentina Baú
Community Development Journal, volume 50, issue 1 (2015), pp. 121-137
"This paper draws on the experience of conducting participatory video in the Rift Valley of Kenya after the 2007–2008 post-election crisis, when the country underwent a period of intense ethnic violence. By linking development communication to conflict transformation theory, this article offers a ... more
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Participatory Photography for Peace: Using Images to Open Up Dialogue After Violence

Valentina Baú
Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, volume 10, issue 3 (2015), pp. 74-88
"This article begins with a literature review of Participatory Photography (PP) that highlights how this tool has been mostly implemented for action research, advocacy, and public health purposes. It shows how scholars have only quite recently begun to recognise its ability to generate change among ... more
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Influencing the Information Domain: The United Nations’ Information Intervention in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob
In: Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa: Mediating Conflict in the Twenty-First Century
Winston Mano (ed.)
London: Tauris (2015), pp. 178-198
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La régulation des médias en Afrique: Vingt années d'évolution

Renaud de la Brosse
In: Médias d'Afrique: Vingt-cinq années de pluralisme de l'information (1990-2015)
Marie-Soleil Frère (ed.)
Paris: Karthala (2015), pp. 117-127
"La question de l'organisation du secteur des médias, à travers l'élaboration de cadres légaux et réglementaires adéquats, susceptibles de garantir le pluralisme et le respect d'un certain professionnalisme, conduit à se pencher sur les instances indépendantes de régulation de la communicat ... more
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Quand l'Afrique réinvente la téléphonie mobile

Alain Kiyindou, Kouméalo Anaté, Alain Capo-Chichi (eds.)
Paris: L'Harmattan (2015), 259 pp.
"Entre hybridation et réinvention, les pratiques communicationnelles liées à la téléphonie mobile offrent des perspectives de recherche stimulantes. Pour les opérateurs de téléphonie, il s’ouvre un réel champ, où d’observation en expérimentation, se créent de nouvelles offres. Au-del ... more
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African Media Barometer: Namibia 2015

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2015), 68 pp.
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All Answers: On the Phenomenal Success of a Brazilian Pentecostal Charismatic Church in South Africa

Ilana van Wyk
In: Pentecostalism in Africa: Presence and Impact of Pneumatic Christianity in Postcolonial Societies
Lindhardt Lindhardt (ed.)
Leiden: Brill (2015), pp. 136-162
"The UCKG’s phenomenal success in post-apartheid South Africa had been a source of much speculation. Scholars generally attributed the church’s growth to new political and economic processes while the South African media and the church’s critics suspected that the UCKG’s attraction was caref ... more
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Edutainment TV for Disseminating Information About Agriculture

International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) (2015), 2 pp.
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Mediated Communities: Civic Voices, Empowerment and Media Literacy in the Digital Era

Moses Shumow (ed.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2015), xi, 216 pp.
"Mediated Communities brings together a diverse, global cohort of academics and professional communicators to assess the current state of democratic mobilizing around the world and the ways in which protest movements are being transformed in the midst of a communication revolution. The volume’s co ... more
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Where Have All the Textbooks Gone? Toward Sustainable Provision of Teaching and Learning Materials in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Tony Read
Washington, DC: World Bank Group (2015), xxiii, 266 pp.
"The key role of textbooks and other teaching and learning materials (TLMs) in enhancing the quality of learning is almost universally recognized. Numerous factors are involved in provision of TLMs, including curriculum, literacy and numeracy, language of instruction policy, procurement and distribu ... more
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Reflections on Elections in a Dominant Party State

Helge Rønning
African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 1 (2015), pp. 149-155
"In my opinion it is too easy to conclude whether eleetion coverage in the media is balanced, solely based on quantitative data. Although this is obviously important, other aspects are equaliy important, particularly in a country such as Mozambique, where the written press does not penetrate much. A ... more
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Labeling Albinism: Language and Discourse Surrounding People with Albinism in Tanzania

Giorgio Brocco
Disability & Society, volume 30, issue 8 (2015), pp. 1143-1157
"This article is based on a qualitative study that set out to analyze the labels and terms attached to 28 people affected by albinism in villages in Kilolo district, Tanzania. Even though national and international attention to killings of people with albinism has attempted to improve general knowle ... more
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Afrika Filmfestival Leuven 2015

Guido Convents (ed.)
Leuven: vzw Film en Cultuurpromotie (2015), 210 pp.
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Community Radio and Empowerment of Women Among Pastoralist Communities in Northern Kenya

Hezron Mogambi, Abiya P. Ochola
Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies, volume 5, issue 4 (2015), pp. 29-63
"This paper focuses on the contribution of a community radio (Serian Radio) to community empowerment of women among pastoralist communities in Northern Kenya. A multi-stage sampling technique was used to select 4 divisions for the study. Data was gathered to determine the extent to which women parti ... more
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Background Paper: Politics and Interactive Media in Zambia

Nalkui Milano, Neo Simutanyi, Alastair Fraser
Cambridge: Centre of Governance and Human Rights, University of Cambridge (2015), 15 pp.
"This background paper provides an overview of the history and context of interactive media and public opinion in Zambia. It is prepared as part of Politics and Interactive Media in Africa (PiMA) - a collaborative study involving the University of Cambridge, University of Nairobi and University of Z ... more
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Digital Divides: The New Challenges and Opportunities of E-Inclusion

Kim J. Andreasson (ed.)
Boca Raton et al.: CRC Press (2015), xxviii, 300 pp.
"The rapid development of the information society has accentuated the importance of digital divides, which refer to economic and social inequalities among populations due to differences in access to, use of, or knowledge of information and communication technologies (ICT). This book discusses the cu ... more
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In Focus: Studying African Cinema and Media Today

Aboubakar Sanogo
Cinema Journal, volume 54, issue 2 (2015), pp. 114-150
"This author started elaborating aspects of the present synthesis of strains of debates in African cinema following the “Semaphores and Surfaces” conference on African cinema held at Princeton University on November 1–3, 2013—co-organized by Wendy Belcher and Beatriz Leal Riesco and featurin ... more
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Ouverture médiatique, pluralisme et audiovisuel: Ajustements au Sénégal, du monopole au numérique

Guila Thiam
Paris: L'Harmattan (2015), 204 pp.
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The BRICS Journalist: Profession and Practice in the Age of Digital Media

Svetlana Pasti, Jyotika Ramaprasad (eds.)
African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 3 (2015), pp. 1-138