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Tuberculosis Advocacy Communication and Social Mobilization

Sarbani Sengupta, Wilfred Nkhoma et al.

African Health Monitor, issue 15 (2012), pp. 4-6

"This paper looks at the status of tuberculosis advocacy communication and social mobilization (ACSM) activities in selected national tuberculosis control programmes in the WHO African Region. The findings are from an assessment of tuberculosis ACSM activities in Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi and So ... more

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Theatre for Development: A Tanzanian Road Towards Citizenship and Cultural Renewal

Hilde Kvam

Journal of Urban Culture Research, volume 5 (2012), pp. 44-52

"During the 60s, Theatre for Development was introduced into several states in Africa. The focus at that time was to utilize theatre as a tool of communication in development projects. During the 80s Tanzania developed their own variant of this genre through the initiative of the University of Dar e ... more

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Landraub: Reisen ins Reich des neuen Kolonialismus

Stefano Liberti

Alexander Knaak (transl.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2012), 254 pp.

Mozambique: Media and Telecoms Landscape Guide

infoasaid (2012), 150 pp.

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Media Regulation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Trends and Stakes in French-Speaking Countries

Renaud de la Brosse, Marie-Soleil Frère

African Journalism Studies, volume 33, issue 3 (2012), pp. 74-92

"After independence since the 1960s, the legacies and traditions in the field of media policy led African countries from the three distinct European linguistic spheres (French, English and Portuguese) to draw on the institutional models in use by the former colonial powers. Media policy is a fundame ... more

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The Magic of Bollywood: At Home and Abroad

Anjali Gera Roy (ed.)

New Delhi; Thousand Oaks: Sage (2012), xviii, 334 pp.

"This anthology aims to portray the “soft” power of Bollywood, which makes it a unique and powerful disseminator of Indian culture and values abroad. The essays in the book examine Bollywood's popularity within and outside South Asia, focusing on its role in international relations and diplomacy ... more

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Al Jazeera English: Global News in a Changing World

Philip Seib (ed.)

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), 204 pp.

"For Al Jazeera English (AJE), the Arab revolutions of 2011 offered an opportunity that news executives dream about. It was the biggest story of the century, it was happening on home territory, and the channel had the expertise and the reportorial staff on the ground at levels its competitors could ... more

Revisiting the Media Freedom Debate at Uganda's Independence Golden Jubileee

Michael Kakooza

Kampala: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS);Uganda Media Development Foundation (2012), 96 pp.

"The history of Uganda from the days of Colonial Rule, when modern mass media was introduced was revisited. The thesis of this study was that the substance of the political governance model inherited from Uganda’s colonial past continues in the postindependence period to define the relationship be ... more

Information Technology and Farm Households in Niger

Jenny C. Aker, Christopher Ksoll

UNDP Regional Bureau for Africa (2012), 17 pp.

"This technical report seeks to understand the impact of improved access to information technology on farmers’ agricultural production and marketing practices in sub-Saharan Africa, with a specific focus on Niger. Related research suggests in that access to mobile telephony can reduce communicatio ... more

Technologies éducatives et développement : Une brève histoire de la télévision scolaire au Niger

Gado Alzouma

Tic & Société, volume 5, issue 2-3 (2012), pp. 163-188

"The history of development in Africa is littered with all sorts of experiments and projects centred on new technologies often presented as a panacea to the problems of health, education, or agricultural production. The failure of some of those projects shows the limits of the technocentrist approac ... more

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Global and Local Televangelism

Pradip Thomas, Philip Lee (eds.)

Basingstoke et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xiv, 250 pp.

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Shielding Marginalized Groups from Verbal Assaults Without Abusing Hate Speech Laws

Yared Legesse Mengistu

In: The Content and Context of Hate Speech: Rethinking Regulation and Responses

Michael Herz; Peter Molnar (eds.)

Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press (2012), pp. 352-277

"There is immense difficulty in regulating hate speech on the ground of ethnicity when ethnicity is a prime cehicle for political organization and mobilization. On the one hand, substantive (real) equality demands that certain marginalized ethnic gropus be shielded from hate speech in order to have ... more

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"Citizen Access to Information": Capturing the Evidence Across Zambia, Ghana and Kenya

Gerry Power, Samia Khatun, Klara Debeljak

In: The Handbook of Global Media Research

Ingrid Volkmer (ed.)

Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Blackwell (2012), pp. 245-275

"In this chapter, we argue that citizen access to information is a catalyst to the achievement of the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) [...] We examine how citizen access to information varies across a range of population sub-groups, different countries, and across a variety of topics and the exte ... more

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Les cinémas d'Afrique des années 2000: Perspectives critiques

Olivier Barlet

Paris: L'Harmattan (2012), 439 pp.

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Entwicklung oder Profit? Die staatliche und private Presse in Ghana

Daniel Kuehnhenrich

Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag (2012), 146 pp.

"Im subsaharischen Afrika orientieren sich die Medien am Entwicklungsjournalismus und am westlichen Journalismusverständnis. Daniel Kuehnhenrich untersucht mit verschiedenen Methoden die Ausprägung dieser Konzepte in den ghanaischen Zeitungen. Seine umfassende Analyse beruht auf der ersten Journal ... more

Chad: Media and Telecoms Landscape Guide

infoasaid (2012), 97 pp.

The Sudanese Press After Separation: Contested Identities of Journalism

Anke Fiedler, Anja Wollenberg, Magdi El Gizouli, Roman Deckert

Berlin: Media in Cooperation and Transition (MiCT) (2012), 47 pp.

"This volume seeks to impart a deeper understanding of the political nature of the Sudanese press. Through observation, research and analysis, it also conveys a multifaceted impression of Sudanese journalists’ working conditions. It tries to paint an authentic and differentiated picture of their s ... more

Freedom of the Press 2012: Breakthroughs and Pushback in the Middle East. Selected Data from Freedom House's Annual Press Freedom Index

Karin Deutsch Karlekar, Jennifer Dunham

Washington, DC: Freedom House (2012), 40 pp.

"The improvements in the Arab world were the most significant findings of Freedom of the Press 2012: A Global Survey of Media Independence, the latest edition of an annual index published by Freedom House since 1980. The gains came on the heels of eight consecutive years of decline in the global ave ... more