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Connecting People for Development: Why Public Access ICTs Matter

Araba Sey, Chris Coward, François Bar, George Sciadas, Chris Rothschild, Lucas Koepke

Seattle: University of Washington Information School, Technology & Social Change Group (2013), 240 pp.

"Libraries, telecenters, and cybercafés play a critical role in extending the benefits of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to a diverse range of people worldwide. However, their ability to contribute to development agendas has come into question in recent times. The Global Impact S ... more

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Global Hotspots: Media Use in Mali and Somalia 2013

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG);Gallup (2013), 60 slides

"Strategic Considerations for a Mali Communications Strategy: Don't forget the importance of local language to reach broad cross-section of the population. Broadcast media remain paramount; on a national radio is likely to be the key medium. Digital is still mostly a niche phenomenon." (Slide 39) "S ... more

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The Use of Stereotypical Images of Africa in Fundraising Campaigns

Maja Dolinar, Polona Sitar

European Scientific Journal, volume 9, issue 11 (2013), pp. 20-31

"This article critically examines Unicef’s campaign in Slovenia, aimed at helping children in Ruanda, which caused huge public support in terms of the raised finances and visibility, but it also provoked a serious opposition from African people living in Slovenia and some academics. The article in ... more

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Communication for Social Mobilization: An Evaluative Study of the National Immunization Campaign in Nigeria

Grade O. Imoh

IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (IOSR-JHSS), volume 13, issue 6 (2013), pp. 78-88

"This study critically evaluates the communication strategies used in the campaign for social mobilization for the National Programme on Immunization in Nigeria. Its objective is to determine the communication factors that contributed to the participation of individuals and groups in the programme a ... more

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Communication for Peacebuilding Priority Grant Program: Learning Group Report

Lauren Kogen, Nina Sheth

Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2012), 16 pp.

"This report summarizes the findings of the learning group that was formed by the three grantees of USIP’s 2011 Communication for Peacebuilding priority grant program: Radio La Benevolencija in the Democratic Republic of Congo; Internews Network in the Central African Republic; and The World Polic ... more

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Sociologies of Voice and Language: Radio Broadcasting and the Ethnic Imperative

Brilliant Mhlanga

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 4, issue 2 (2012), pp. 209-226

"This article will argue that the conversational approach used by Munghana Lonene FM (ML FM) of mixing music and talk in Tsonga encourages the creation of a sociological natal affiliation; a form of 'we' feeling that translates into notions of ownership and belonging and empowerment. By re-establish ... more

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Kongo, Krieg und unsere Handys

Friedel Hütz-Adams

Aachen: Missio (2012), 8 pp.

"missio setzt sich im Rahmen der Aktion Schutzengel „Für Familien in Not. Weltweit“ mit einer Unterschriftenaktion für saubere Handys dafür ein, dass führende Handyhersteller sicherstellen, dass ihre Handys kein Coltan aus Konfliktregionen der Demokratischen Republik Kongo verwenden, mit dem ... more

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Static: Race and Representation in Post-Apartheid Music, Media and Film

Adam Haupt

Cape Town: HSRC Press (2012), xvi, 240 pp.

"Static: Race and Representation in Post-apartheid Music, Media and Film critically examines music, cinema, social media and the politics of change after apartheid. It cuts across academic disciplines, the creative arts and the media and poses two central questions: Is South Africa changing for the ... more

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Somalia: Media and Telecoms Landscape Guide

infoasaid (2012), 92 pp.

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Developing countries in the e-learning era

Christian Depover, François Orivel

Paris: UNESCO;International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) (2012), 97 pp.

"In addition to reducing geographical isolation,distance education, thanks to its more favourable cost structure, allows the monitoring of social and economic remoteness.It may thus have much to offer for developing countries. Digital technologies not only bring remote populations closer, they also ... more

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Book History in the African World: The State of the Discipline

Elisabeth le Roux

Book History, volume 15 (2012), pp. 248-300

"There is a key and oft-repeated assumption that the book is not indigenous to Africa, and has a relatively short history here.1 Thus, to tell the story of the book in Africa, some would start with the coming of the first printing presses, brought to missions, colonies, and trading posts around the ... more

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The Use of Jokes and Mobile Telephony to Create Counter-Publics in Zimbabwe

Kudakwashe Manganga

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 4, issue 2 (2012), pp. 243-255

"This article discusses how ordinary Zimbabweans use jokes and mobile phones to construct their counter-publics. Jokes are an important part of the oral public sphere and have been used as outlets for political expectoration, to navigate and subvert state power and media censorship. Most of the joke ... more

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Lack of Diversity (repeat): Analysis of SABC News and Programming

Lethabo Thebe Dibetso, Thandi Smith

Johannesburg: Media Monitoring Africa (2012), vii, 41 pp.

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Towards a framework of sustainability indicators for ‘communication for development and social change’ projects

Jan Servaes, Emily Polk, Song Shi, Danielle Reilly, Thanu Yakupitijage

International Communication Gazette, volume 74, issue 2 (2012), pp. 99-123

"This article presents an overview of the emergence of sustainability themes in communication for development and argues that there is an urgent need for a framework of sustainability indicators for communication for development and social change projects around the world. It fills a crucial gap in ... more

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Defining the Nation: National Identity in South Sudanese Media Discourse

Ole Frahm

Africa Spectrum, volume 47, issue 1 (2012), pp. 21-49

"This article examines debates about national identity in the media landscape of post-referendum and post-independence South Sudan. Having never existed as a sovereign state and with its citizens being a minority group in Sudan, collective action among South Sudanese has historically been shaped in ... more

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Is peace journalism possible in the ‘war’ against terror in Somalia? How the Kenyan Daily Nation and the Standard represented Operation Linda Nchi

Fredrick Ogenga

Conflict & Communication Online, volume 11, issue 2 (2012), 14 pp.

"This paper concludes that in Africa the non-Western press may have the best chance to employ peace journalism, given its proximity to major conflicts. Nevertheless, the Kenyan press has so far failed to take advantage of an ideal opportunity for such an experiment in reporting on the war against te ... more

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Eine Nacht des Glaubens: Eine Meditation über die Anfänge und die historische Rolle von Présence Africaine im Rahmen der afrikanischen Unabhängigkeiten

Valentin Yves Mudimbre

In: 50 Jahre afrikanische Un-Abhängigkeiten: eine (selbst)-kritische Bilanz

AfricAvenir International (ed.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2012), pp. 154-168

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Tabloid TV in Zambia: A Reception Study of Lusaka Viewers of Muvi TV News

Herman Wasserman, Loisa Mbatha

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 4, issue 3 (2012), pp. 277-293

"The tabloid news genre has been chastized for depoliticizing its public by causing cynicism about the democratic process and lowering the standards of rational public discourse. Counter-arguments point to the alternative public sphere offered by popular media such as ‘tabloid TV’ which is the f ... more

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Perceptions and Sources of Information in the Zemio Region

Patrick Vinck, Jean-Pierre Dushime

Internews;Humanitarian Innovation Fund (2012), 10 pp.

"Between June 30th and July 10th, 2012, a team of four trained interviewers conducted interviews with 400 randomly selected adults, representative of the adult population of the town of Zemio and its surroundings, over 1,000 km east of the capital Bangui in the prefecture of Haut Mbomou, near the bo ... more

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Perceptions and Sources of Information in the Obo Region

Patrick Vinck, Jean-Pierre Dushime

Internews;Humanitarian Innovation Fund (2012), 11 pp.

"Between May 19th-27th, 2012, a team of four trained interviewers conducted interviews with 400 randomly selected adults representative of the adult population in Obo, the capital of Haut-Mbomou, one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic (CAR), and its surroundings [...] Radio is the ... more