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Presse francophone en Afrique de l’Ouest: Expériences et réflexions de pionniers

Gérard Guèdègbé

Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2019), 50 pp.

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Entrepreneurial Journalism in Africa: Opportunities, Challenges and Risks for Media in the Digital Age. Learnings from a Conference Held by KAS Media Africa in Accra, Ghana, 16-19 September 2018

Francis Mdlongwa (ed.)

Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2019), 64 pp.

"[...] there seems to be an understanding that the media is important and that society needs the media. In October 2018, KAS Media Africa, therefore, gathered the CEOs of media houses, publishers and editors-in-chief from 16 different countries, both from Anglophone and Frenchspeaking Africa, in Acc ... more

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La radio comme outil de communication opérationnelle et d’engagement avec les communautés
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Adrien Zerbini

Lausanne; Dakar: Fondation Hirondelle;International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC);Comité international de la Croix-Rouge, Centre régional de Communication (2019), 18 pp.

"Du 21 au 23 novembre 2018, huit chargés de communication d’Afrique francophone du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge (CICR) dont le mandat est de venir en aide aux populations affectées par les conflits armés, se sont réunis à Dakar pour échanger leurs expériences d’utilisation de l ... more

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The Handbook of Diasporas, Media, and Culture

Jessica Retis, Roza Tsagarousianou (eds.)

Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell (2019), xviii, 602 pp.

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Numérique, espaces et sociétés en Afrique

Dabié Désiré Axel Nassa (ed.)

Paris: L'Harmattan (2019), 403 pp.

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Mauritania Violent Extremism & Media Landscape Assessment: Desk Study & Field Analysis

USAID;International Business and Technical Consultants (IBTCI) (2019), 89 pp.

"The primary questions driving this assessment are: What are the principal drivers of extremism in Mauritania? What are the principal social fractures that have been, or could be, exploited by extremists? The table below displays the overall main drivers of VE in Mauritania, as well as the five subn ... more

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Content Analysis of the Reflection of Media Literacy in Communication Curricula of Select Nigerian Universities

Elizabeth Titilayo Aduloju

World of Media: Journal of Russian Media and Journalism Studies, issue 3 (2019), pp. 66-85

"This study analysed the media-literacy content in curricula of nine select universities in Africa’s most populous nation: Nigeria. Some key findings revealed that: (a) media-literacy courses proper were not on the curricula; (b) media-literacy-related courses, which stood as proxies, accounted fo ... more

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Social Accountability on Durable Solutions: Perception Survey in Bossaso and Baidoa

Nairobi: Africa's Voices Foundation (2019), 65 pp.

"Somalia is facing a protracted displacement crisis. Since the new wave of displacement as a result of the 2016/2017 drought, 2.6 million people - one in six Somalis - have been forced to flee their homes.1 Displaced groups in Somalia are extremely vulnerable - lacking in sustainable livelihoods, pe ... more

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Big Brother is Watching: Surveillance Regulation and its Effects on Journalistic Practices in Zimbabwe

Allen Munoriyarwa, Sarah H. Chiumbu

African Journalism Studies, volume 40, issue 3 (2019), pp. 26-41

"In many African countries, including Zimbabwe, journalists have been subjected to various policy regulations that have widely been criticised for making the practice of journalism difficult. Part of the reason has been the advent of competitive politics that have left the ruling regimes scrambling ... more

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How African Economies Work: A Guide to Business and Economics Reporting
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Nixon K. Kariithi (ed.)

Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2019), 220 pp.

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Community Media is 10% Media and 90% Community: A Mapping Project on the Potentials of Community Media in Cameroon in Times of Conflict

Cameroon Community Media Network (CCMN) (2019), 37 pp.

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Trust in the Media

Ipsos (2019), 48 pp.

"People across 27 countries are divided on whether they trust traditional media (magazines and newspapers, TV and radio). These sources are equally trusted as they are distrusted. However, levels of trust in media sources vary greatly at the country level. Trust in traditional media is perceived to ... more

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Mapping the Digital Divide in Africa: A Mediated Analysis

Bruce Mutsvairo, Massimo Ragnedda (eds.)

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2019), 278 pp.

"This is a timely and much-needed collection that fills an important gap in the literature. It offers excellent conceptual tools and a selection of case studies that provide a useful map of the digital divide across the African continent and between Africa and the rest of the world. I especially app ... more

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Creating Evidence-Based Youth Mental Health Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Description of the Integrated Approach to Addressing the Issue of Youth Depression in Malawi and Tanzania

Stanley Kutcher, Kevin Perkins, Heather Gilberds, Michael Udedi, Omary Ubuguyu, Tasiana Njau, Rex Chapota, Mina Hashish

Frontiers in Psychiatry, volume 10, issue 542 (2019), 8 pp.

"Addressing depression in young people is a health-care policy need in sub-Saharan Africa. There exists poor mental health literacy, high levels of stigma, and weak capacity at the community level to address this health-care need. These challenges are significant barriers to accessing mental health ... care for depression, soon to be the largest single contributor to the global burden of disease. We here describe an innovative approach that addresses these issues simultaneously while concurrently strengthening key mental health components in existing education and health-care systems as successfully applied in Malawi and replicated in Tanzania. Improving the pathway to care for young people with depression requires the following: improving mental health literacy (MHL) of communities, youth, and teachers; enhancing case identification and linking schools to community health clinics; improving the capacity of community health-care providers to identify, diagnose, and effectively treat depression in youth. Funded by Grand Challenges Canada, we developed and applied a program called “An Integrated Approach to Addressing the Challenge of Depression Among the Youth in Malawi and Tanzania” (IACD). This was an example of, a horizontally integrated pathway to care model designed to be applied in low-resource settings. The model is designed to 1) improve awareness/knowledge of mental health and mental disorders (especially depression) in communities; 2) enhance mental health literacy among youth and teachers within schools; 3) enhance capacity for teachers to identify students with possible depression; 4) create linkages between schools and community health clinics for improved access to mental health care for youth identified with possible depression; and 5) enhance the capacity of community-based health-care providers to identify, diagnose, and effectively treat youth with depression. With the use of interactive, youth-informed weekly radio programs, mental health curriculum training for teachers and peer educators in secondary schools, and a clinical competency training program for community-based health workers, the innovation created a “hub and spoke” model for improving mental health care for young people. Positive results obtained in Malawi and replicated in Tanzania suggest that this approach may provide an effective and potentially sustainable framework for enhancing youth mental health care, thus providing a policy ready framework that can be considered for application in sub-Saharan Africa." (Abstract) more

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“Fake News” and Cyber-Propaganda in Sub-Saharan Africa: Recentering the Research Agenda

Admire Mare, Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara, Dumisani Moyo

African Journalism Studies, volume 40, issue 4 (2019), pp. 1-12

"Dominant narratives about the contemporary problem of “fake news” and cyber-propaganda have focused on how its evolution and manifestation has been closely linked with the rise of populist politics, digital capitalism, the transformation of the public sphere and structural weaknesses of liberal ... more

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Community Media and Media Policy Reform in Anglophone Sub-Saharan Africa

Patrick E. Okon

In: The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media

Chris Atton (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge, paperback ed. (2019), pp. 210-221

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Bad news: Seeing communication for and about development through an exposé of Swedish aid to Zambia

Florencia Enghel, Magnus Danielsson

Journal of International Communication, volume 25, issue 2 (2019), pp. 254-274

"Communication for and about development are significant components of international development cooperation, interlinked in practice though separated in research. This article examines their interaction in donor-driven aid through the lens of journalism. How is bilateral development cooperation com ... more

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Data Journalism in the Global South
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Bruce Mutsvairo, Saba Bebawi, Eddy Borges-Rey (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), xxxv, 334 pp.

"This volume seeks to analyse the emerging wave of data journalism in the Global South. It does so by examining trends, developments and opportunities for data journalism in the aforementioned contexts. Whilst studies in this specific form of journalism are increasing in numbers and significance, th ... more

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Media in the Global Context: Applications and Interventions

Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi (ed.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), xxii, 272 pp.

"This book investigates ways in which global media coverage of conflicts affects the worldviews of the social and cultural values of nationals from the war regions. It identifies the cultural patterns in remote communities that have been 'diluted' by IT and the extent to which the changes impacted t ... more

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Social Media and Journalism in Ethiopia: Setting the Scene for Reform

Christer L. Pettersson, Nigussu Solomon

Kalmar: Fojo Media Institute;Nubia Media & Communications (2019), 28 pp.

"Social media has, in a few years, turned the political landscape in Ethiopia on its head not only as a means of mobilising people, but also as a means of spreading rumours, hate speech and disinformation [...] What ultimately is happening is that digital media has made a more invasive, ultimately p ... more

La radio comme outil de communication opérationnelle et d’engagement avec les communautés Key Guidance

How African Economies Work: A Guide to Business and Economics Reporting Key Guidance

Data Journalism in the Global South Top Insights

La radio comme outil de communication opérationnelle et d’engagement avec les communautés
Key Guidance

How African Economies Work: A Guide to Business and Economics Reporting
Key Guidance

Data Journalism in the Global South
Top Insights