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Ten years of building a movement for Digital Rights in Africa: Impact of the African Declaration on Rights and Freedoms in Africa

Koliwe Majama

Johannesburg; Windhoek: Association for Progressive Communications (APC);NMT Media Foundation (2024), 20 pp.

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‘Journalism in another form’: How exile experiences from Burundi renegotiate key elements of journalism

Louisa Esther, Richard H. Thomas

Media, War & Conflict, volume 18, issue 2 (2024), pp. 273-294

"Since the renewed outbreak of the ongoing crisis in Burundi in May 2015, triggering a media crackdown, over one-third of the country’s reporters have gone into exile. They therefore joined an increasing number of journalists worldwide who are forced into exile. Between 2015 and 2021, many of the ... more

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Press freedom and safety of journalists in Ghana 2024: An assessment based on the African Media Barometer

Gabriel Baglo

Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2024), 26 pp.

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Interactive Radio Shows and the Role of New Information Brokers in the Republic of Benin

Tilo Grätz

Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 14, issue 2 (2024), 21 pp.

"This study investigates interactive forms of public communication in the Republic of Benin (West Africa) with a specific focus on the emergence of new media actors. Benin’s media landscape features a variety of media formats, which are constantly incorporating interactive elements. These developm ... more

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The vexed question of Ethiopian identity-driven politics and the discourse of political communication in the digital media sphere

Dessalegn Yeshambel Wassie, Mulatu Alemayehu Moges, Biset Ayalew Nigatu

Cogent Arts & Humanities, volume 11, issue 1, 2308727 (2024), 18 pp.

"This study aims to examine the interplay between political communication and discursive practices in the emerging new media landscape after the recent political reform in Ethiopia. The study employs interpretative textual analysis in qualitative research approach to analyze political communication ... more

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Media and religion in Ethiopia

Mulatu Alemayehu Moges, Terje Skjerdal

Addis Ababa: Fojo Media Institute (2024), 59 pp.

"The content analysis shows that polarization is still a major problem in the reporting of religion in the Ethiopian media. Stories are often biased towards the journalist’s political and ethnic stance. Claiming that they are ’secular’, the state media (’public media’) tend to ignore impor ... more

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Internet Shutdowns, Sovereignty, and the Postcolonial State in Africa

Nicole Stremlau

Global Policy (2024), 8 pp.

"Despite strong international condemnation, there is growing acceptance of internet shutdowns as a legitimate response to online content that governments—particularly in Africa—find concerning. This article explores government decision- making around internet shutdowns during contentious periods ... more

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Genre, journalisme et pouvir: Rôle des femmes journalistes dans les salles de rédaction d'Afrique francophone

Catherine Gicheru, Khady Sakho (eds.)

Africa Women Journalism Project (AWJP);International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) (2024), 66 pp.

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Looking at Listening: Gender and Race in Commercial Advertising for Radio Sets in Southern Africa from the 1950s to the 1970s

Peter Brooke

Journal of African Cultural Studies, volume 36, issue 1 (2024), pp. 74-93

"This article takes a visual approach to the study of an auralmedium. It argues that the radio set had a powerful visual presence in popular culture in Southern Africa between the 1950s and the 1970s when most people bought their first radio sets. Advertisements for radios carried by the press offer ... more

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Communication et gestion de crise électorale en RD Congo: Analyse des stratégies de communication de la CENI durant le cycle électoral de 2023

Jean-Claude Unyuthowun Ubegiu

Revue Internationale du Chercheur, volume 5, issue 2 (2024), pp. 592-612

"En contexte d’élections hors pair comme en 2023 en RDC, on s’attendrait à une contestation populaire des résultats. Mais le contraire s’est avéré vrai. Comment expliquer ce paradoxe ? A travers une approche herméneutique, sous-tendue par la recherche documentaire et l’observation dire ... more

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The Limits of Governmentality: Call-in Radio and the Subversion of Neoliberal Evangelism in Zambia

Alastair Fraser

Jounal of African Cultural Studies, volume 36, issue 1 (2024), pp. 41-57

"The spread of mobile telephones in Africa has enabled a broad range of citizens to join live conversations on call-in radio shows. Both African governments and foreign aid agencies claim that broadcasting such debates can raise awareness, amplify the voices of the poor, and facilitate development a ... more

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Zambia’s Support for the African National Congress’s Radio Freedom in Lusaka, 1967–1992

Peter Sekibakiba Lekgoathi, Thomas Kasonde Mukonde Mukonde

Journal of African Cultural Studies, volume 36, issue 1 (2024), pp. 24-40

"This article explores the contribution Zambia made to the liberation struggle in South Africa by hosting the ANC’s Radio Freedom in Lusaka. It relies on a combination of archival evidence (audio and documentary sources) from both countries, and interviews conducted with the broadcasters and other ... more

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Radio in Africa: Past and Present

Peter Brooke

Journal of African Cultural Studies, volume 36, issue 1 (2024), 5 pp.

"A century after its appearance on the African continent, the radio set has become so ubiquitous and seemingly old-fashioned a technology that it is easily overlooked. But like the automobile - perhaps the only other late-nineteenth century invention to have had a greater impact - radio continues to ... more

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Influence of Digital Media on Radio’s Public Discourse: A Case Study of Gagasi FM and Ukhozi FM

Siphumelele Zondi, Tigere P. Muringa

Communicatio (2024), 29 pp.

"This article examined the effects of digital media on radio’s role in public discourse and civic engagement in South Africa. The study combined a review of existing literature with empirical research using in-depth interviews with 10 participants that included radio producers and listeners from r ... more

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Reconceptualising multilingualism on African radio: A multilingual accommodation theory

Limukani Mathe, Gilbert Motsaathebe

International Journal of Multilingualism (2024), 16 pp.

"Media organisations in radio broadcasting are gradually fine-tuning to accommodate multilingual socio-cultural identities. Africa presents unique challenges of lingual diversity which some of the media, particularly public radio have struggled to accommodate. This article advocates for multilingual ... more

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Forte FM’s Programming Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Alice, South Africa

Oluyinka Osunkunle

Communicatio, volume 50, issue 3 (2024), pp. 106-124

"The advent of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in 2019 brought great fear of the unknown to the whole world. It therefore became very important for people and nations around the world to get the needed information on how to cope with the novel virus. Community radio broadcasting was at t ... more

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Effects of Radio-Based Extension Services on farmers’ Adoption of Organo-Mineral Fertilizers, Biofertilizers, and Manure in Lesotho

Nthapeliseng Nthama, O. I. Oladele

Journal of Radio & Audio Media (2024), 17 pp.

"This study examined the effects of radio-based extension services on farmers’ adoption of organo-mineral fertilizer, biofertilizer, and manure in Lesotho using a sample of 1659 farmers extracted from the 2019/2020 agricultural production survey database Bureau of Statistics (BOS). Data were analy ... more

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Promoting Social Cohesion or an Enabler of Tribalism? A Closer Look at Community Radio Language Policies in Post-Apartheid South Africa’s Malamulele FM and Vuwani FM

Freddy Chauke, Prinola Govenden

Communicatio (2024), 21 pp.

"Tribalism is a social phenomenon polarising South Africa along ethnic lines and undermining democratic efforts for social cohesion in the newly reconfigured inclusive territorial zones. Community radio is expected to play a social cohesion role of uniting cohabiting disparate ethnic groups within t ... more

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Community Radio Content in Print Facebook Posts: Limitations and Opportunities for Indigenous Languages

Limukani Mathe, Gilbert Motsaathebe

Communicatio (2024), 67 pp.

"With the advent of social media, traditional analogue radio has converged to audio-visual with print formats. Using the case of community radio in Zimbabwe, this article explores how radio broadcasters have taken advantage of media convergence to disseminate text as implant on radio. A qualitative ... more

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Trends in political communication on air: Implications for democratic consolidation in Ghana

Samuel Pimpong

Cogent Arts & Humanities, volume 11, issue 1 24338505 (2024), 14 pp.

"The role of media in democratic governance is pivotal, yet its impact on democratic consolidation remains debated. This study investigates the relationship between radio activism and democratic consolidation in Ghana, focusing on the influence of political news production and communication strategi ... more