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Mapping the information integrity landscape in West Africa: An annotated bibliography

Zara Schoeder, Liz Orembo, Marie Batista
Cape Town: Research ICT Africa (2025), 26 pp.
"This annotated bibliography is organised into four sections. Section 1 demonstrates how disinformation emerges as the most prominent topic in the literature on information integrity. Several different kinds of agents of disinformation operate within West Africaʼs information sphere. These range fr ... more
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Batswana support press freedom and media’s watchdog role

Mogopodi Lekorwe, Wilford Molefe, Kefentse P. Malele
Afrobarometer (2025), 12 pp.
"Three-fourths (74%) of Batswana say they are gsomewhat freeh or gcompletely freeh to say what they think, although 24% disagree. The share who feel free to speak their minds is up by 6 percentage points since 2022 (68%) but remains below the historic high of 93% in 2008. Botswana ranks abov ... more
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Digital Violence Against Women

Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) (2025)
"ARIJ published in-depth reports addressing digital violence against women in Egypt and in conflict-affected countries such as Yemen, Palestine, and Sudan. The female journalists behind these reports participated in specialized workshops that enhanced their expertise in tackling gender-based violenc ... more
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Ugandans support free media that holds government accountable

Jane Mercy Muthoni Kamunyi
Afrobarometer (2025), 10 pp.
"Findings from the Afrobarometer Round 9 survey (2022) show that a strong majority of Ugandans supported media freedom and believed the media should play a watchdog role by investigating and reporting on government mistakes and corruption. Most citizens said the public should have access to governme ... more
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Rethinking Open Source in the Age of Foundational AI Models
Deep Insights

Greg Maly
ICTworks, July 29 (2025)
"As the global artificial intelligence community wrestles with the tension between scale and accessibility, recent work by researchers at Lelapa AI offers a compelling example of what inclusive, efficient AI can look like. Around the world, the push to shrink massive language models into deployable, ... more
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The State of Media Development: Francophone Africa

Jean Claude Bitsure, Jean-Pierre Uwimana
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2025), 22 pp.
"The African media sector embodies both remarkable potential and persistent fragility. Across the continent, journalists and media organizations continue to demonstrate resilience, innovation, and commitment to public interest reporting, and often in environments marked by political interference, ec ... more
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The State of Media Development: Anglophone Africa

Robi Koki Ochieng
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2025), 21 pp.
"This study examines the status of media development in Anglophone Africa and specifically assesses adherence to the OECD’s six Principles that guide donor support for relevant and effective media development. The research draws on qualitative and quantitative data collected through surveys and in ... more
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Media Capture in Africa and Latin America: Power and Resistance

Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara, Bethia Pearson (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), xliii, 388 pp.
"How can current debates on ‘media capture’ be understood within the contexts of Africa and Latin America? This edited collection provides a nuanced exploration of media capture—a critical yet contested concept that examines and illuminates how media can become skewed in favour of power—whil ... more
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State-Sponsored Disinformation Around the Globe: How Politicians Deceive their Citizens

Martin Echeverría Victoria, Sara Garcia Santamaria, Daniel C. Hallin (eds.)
Oxford: Routledge (2025), xiii, 336 pp.
"This book explores the pervasive and globalised trajectory of domestic disinformation. It describes specific operations and general apparatuses of disinformation that are sponsored by the State institutions in several countries around the world, such as governments, political parties, and politicia ... more
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Media Compass: A Companion to International Media Landscapes

Aljosha Karim Schapals, Christian Pentzold (eds.)
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell (2025), xxiii, 502 pp.
"In 'Media Compass: A Companion to International Media Landscapes', an international team of prominent scholars examines both long-term media systems and fluctuating trends in media usage around the world. Integrating country-specific summaries and cross-cutting studies of geopolitical regions, this ... more
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Basotho support media’s watchdog role, but many doubt that their media is free

Asafika Mpako, Stephen Ndoma
Afrobarometer (2025), 9 pp.
"According to the 2024 Afrobarometer survey, strong majorities of Basotho value media freedom and say the media should act as a watchdog over the government, constantly investigating and reporting on government mistakes and corruption. But on whether media freedom exists in practice in their country ... more
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Media and Communication Systems for Sustainability in Nigeria

Nelson Okorie, Oluyinka Osunkunle, Kehinde Oyesomi (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), xxix, 541 pp.
"The aim of this book is to advance a research agenda on the potential role of media in promoting the UN Sustainable Development Goals in Nigeria. It provides a theoretical and empirical framework for explicating the potential place of media structures and institutions in tackling issues affecting s ... more
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Parvenir à un développement numérique de la Guinée à l’horizon 2030: Stratégies - actions

Mamadi Kaba
Paris: L'Harmattan (2025), 163 pp.
"Ce livre est à la fois un diagnostic des politiques publiques antérieures du secteur de l’économie numérique du pays et un conteneur de solutions inductrices de changements axés sur des réformes structurelles pouvant permettre au pays de réussir sa transformation numérique. Cet ouvrage es ... more
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Reconceptualising Multilingualism on African Radio: Language and Identity
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Limukani Mathe, Gilbert Motsaathebe (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), 262 pp.
"This book redefines multilingualism via the concept of radio in Africa. Africa presents unique challenges of lingual diversity which the media still struggles to accommodate, particularly when it comes to indigenous languages. Contributors argue that the linguistic realities of African radio reflec ... more
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Building AI-based advisory services for smallholder farmers: Technical learnings from the AIEP Initiative

Stewart Collis, Florence Kinyua, Vikram Kumar, Howard Lakougna, Christian Merz, Kirti Pandey, Christian Resch
AIEP Initiative; Gates Foundation; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internat (2025), 18 pp.
"We report technical learnings from five AI agricultural advisory minimum viable products (MVPs) deployed in Kenya and Bihar under the AIEP Initiative. A 800-farmer study found high user satisfaction (net promoter score ∼60). All solutions implement a modular two-part architecture: (i) an interfac ... more
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Examining Perceptions of ‘peacebuildings’ in Radiophonic Debates: A Narrative Analysis of Media Talk in the Central African Republic

Fabíola Ortiz dos Santos
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 32, issue 2 (2025), pp. 241-260
"Within [the radio debate programme) Patara, there was no explicit intention to reach a final conclusion on any given issue. The overall aim of the Ndeke Luka’s debate was to display arguments from different angles about certain specific matters without necessarily having to reach unanimous agreem ... more
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African Media and Communication: Foundational Conversations

Viola C. Milton, Winston Mano (eds.)
Oxford; New York: Routledge (2025), 380 pp.
"This book provides an important set of critical reflections from a selection of foundational scholars of African media and communication studies through biographical method. The book interrogates the center of mainstream academic scholarship by providing the foundational history and origins of an A ... more
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The African Book Industry: Trends, Challenges & Opportunities for Growth
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Paris: UNESCO (2025), 249 pp.
"Thanks to its outstanding literary talent and growing number of success stories, Africa’s book industry holds immense potential. Although the continent as a whole still relies heavily on imports and foreign publishing houses, it accounted for 5.4% of the global publishing market in 2023, generati ... more
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Women Journalists, Proximity Radios and Conflicts in Burkina Faso: Weaving the Social Fabric for Peace

Viviane Schönbächler
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), xix, 328 pp.
"This book explores the complex relationships between proximity radio and conflict in Burkina Faso from the perspective of female radio journalists. The study is based on in-depth qualitative field research, including interviews, audio diaries, and radio content analysis, using an analytical framewo ... more
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African Radio and Minority Languages: Participation and Representation

Limukani Mathe
London; New York: Routledge (2025), 96 pp.
"Within Africa, radio provides an important platform for accommodating diverse linguistic groups and enabling speakers to express themselves in their own local languages. This book investigates how radio broadcasting across the continent provides a platform for the cultural participation and the rep ... more