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News Then, News Now: What Nigerian Catholic Newspaper Industry Can Learn from its U.S. Counterpart

Akodu Peter Kehinde

Champaign-Urbana, Illin.: University of Illinois, College of Media, Master Thesis (2010), iii, 133 pp.

"It's evident that not all aspects of Traber's 1978 report adequately appeal to our present concern in Nigeria, but there are certain proposals that are still very much relevant. An example is its proposal to establish a Catholic National Weekly Newspaper and a National Monthly Magazine. This is dea ... more

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Enhancing Rural Learning, Linkages, and Institutions: The Rice Videos in Africa

Paul Van Mele, Jonas Wanvoeke, Espérance Zossou

Development in Practice, volume 20, issue 3 (2010), pp. 414-421

"Africa Rice Center (WARDA) facilitated the development and translation of 11 rice videos. From 2005 to 2009, WARDA partners translated them into more than 30 African languages. Open-air video presentations enhanced learning, experimentation, confidence, trust, and group cohesion among rural people. ... more

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Shadows of War: A Social History of Silence in the Twentieth Century

Efrat Ben-Ze'ev, Jay Winter, Ruth Ginio (eds.)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2010), ix, 223 pp.

"Silence lies between forgetting and remembering. This book explores the ways in which different societies have constructed silences to enable men and women to survive and make sense of the catastrophic consequences of armed conflict. Using a range of disciplinary approaches, it examines the silence ... more

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Community-Radios in Benin: Rahmenbedingungen, Problemfelder, Potentiale

Tilo Grätz

Aachen: Catholic Media Council (CAMECO) (2010), 35 pp.

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Doing Community Radio: A Toolkit for Nigerian Communities

Ayobami Ojebode

Lagos: Nigeria Community Radio Coalition;Institute for Media and Society (IMS);Panos West Africa (2010), 82 pp.

"This toolkit illustrates what it takes to set up and manage a community radio station in Nigeria. It discusses what community radio is and how it can contribute to the individual (provide relaxation, information, entertainment, promote self-expression and creativity) or to the community as a whole ... more

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Youth Voices Project Radio Magwi FM 92.5: Project Report

Munich; Juba: Xchange Perspectives;DED Programme Southern Sudan (2010), 21 pp.

"This report showcases the six week long setting up of Magwi FM 92.5, a youth-run community radio station, under DED guidance, in South Sudan. As the radio stations' primary objective is to contribute to local peacebuilding, the report begins with the selection of 18 untrained volunteers and their t ... more

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Radios communautaires de Dakar: Communication pour le développement et extraversion

Jeanne Dorelli

Montréal: Université Concordia, Master Thesis (2010), xii, 137 pp.

"Ayant comme source principale des entretiens effectués au cours de l’automne 2009, ce mémoire s’attelle à explorer la réalité des radios communautaires de Dakar, la capitale du Sénégal. Plus particulièrement, il s’agit d’interroger les relations qu’elles entretiennent avec leurs � ... more

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Les radios locales: Un outil de dialogue entre acteurs de la gouvernance

Florent Yipeni Bakouan

Ouagadougou: Laboratoire Citoy (2010), 42 pp.

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L’influence de la radio communautaire dans le développement local : Le cas du Mali

Eric A. Paulhus

Université du Québec en Outaouais (2010), 136 pp.

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Making Our Media: Global Initiatives Toward a Democratic Public Sphere. Vol. I: Creating New Communication Spaces

Clemencia Rodríguez, Dorothy Kidd, Laura Stein (eds.)

Cresskill: Hampton Press (2010), x, 338 pp.

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Citizen Journalism and Democracy in Africa: An Exploratory Study

Fackson Banda

Grahamstown: Highway Africa, School of Journalism & Media Studies, Rhodes University (2010), 81 pp.

"The study identifies and analyses two types of citizen journalism: non-institutional and institutional. Exploratory in nature, the study is underpinned by four specific objectives, namely to: analyse the social context of the practice of citizen journalism in Africa; assess the technological basis ... more

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La couverture de l’actualité régionale par les médias des pays des Grands Lacs: Monitoring conjoint des médias au Burundi, en République démocratique du Congo et au Rwanda

Marie-Soleil Frère (coord.)

Paris: Panos Paris (2010), 87 pp.

"Les conflits qui ont ravagé la région des Grands Lacs durant la décennie 1990 ont été tellement interconnectés que certains analystes n’ont pas hésité à parler d’une « première guerre mondiale africaine ». Pourtant, alors que la guerre a été régionale, elle a longtemps maintenu l ... more

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Racism and the Image of Africa in German Schools and Textbooks

Elina Marmer, Dalia Marmer, Leona Hitomi, Papa Sow

International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities & Nations, volume 10, issue 5 (2010), pp. 1-12

"Poverty, violence and underdevelopment are the prevailing images of Africa in German history and geography textbooks. Pre-colonial African history, African culture and philosophy are not covered by Eurocentric curricula. Classic and modern western literature is interspersed with stereotypes about A ... more

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A Sampler of International Media and Communication Statistics 2010

Sara Leckner, Ulrika Facht (comps.)

Göteborg: Nordicom;University of Gothenburg (2010), 237 pp.

"There is a lack of comparative statistics on media and communication, and this is a fundamental problem. National media statistics are very poor in many countries. But some comparative statistics already available within different international and regional organisations and institutions could be m ... more

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Access to Africa’s Knowledge: Publishing Development Research and Measuring Value

Eve Gray

African Journal of Information and Communication, issue 10 (2010), pp. 4-19

"This paper reviews, critically, the discourse of research publication policy and the directives of the regional and global organisations that advise African countries with respect to their relevance to African scholarly communication. What emerges is a readiness to use the concepts and language of ... more

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Translation, Language and Fiction Publishing in Africa: The Case of Uganda

Bob Lapajian

Utrecht University, Master Thesis (2010), 132 pp.

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Politische Kommunikation

KAS Auslandsinformationen, issue 6 (2010), 114 pp.

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South Africa

Libby Lloyd, Jane Duncan

Jeanette Minnie; Hendrik Bussiek (eds.)

Johannesburg: Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA);Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project (AfriMAP) (2010), xiii, 273 pp.

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Capacity Development in Practice

Jan Ubels, Naa-Aku Acquaye-Baddoo, Alan Fowler (eds.)

London; Washington, DC: Earthscan (2010), xxii, 338 pp.

"Real-life practice is poorly understood and undervalued as a distinct professional domain. Written by practitioners, this innovative publication is designed to make capacity development more professional and increasingly effective in achieving development goals. Practical illustrations draw on expe ... more

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Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Art Films and the Nollywood Video Revolution

Mahir Saul, Ralph A. Austen (eds.)

Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press (2010), vii, 248 pp.