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Routledge Handbook on Arab Cinema
Deep Insights

Noha Mellor (ed.)
London: Routledge (2024), xix, 440 pp.
"The collection includes contributions from academics and filmmakers from across the Arab region, Europe, and North America, and fills a gap in media studies by examining the entire Arab region, rather than focusing on one country or theme. The Handbook also sheds light on the heterogeneity of Arab ... more
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AI and natural disaster analysis: Needs analysis during disaster using Artificial Intelligence by Citibeats, February 2018 - September 2021

Citibeats; UNESCO (2024), 21 pp.
"The main conclusions drawn from the analysis of online opinions during natural disasters in Africa are highlighted below: ● Climate change is one of the main concerns of the African population in recent years. This climate problem is considered to be causing more and greater natural disasters on ... more
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Health information systems in extreme contexts: Using mobile phones to fight AIDS in Uganda

Livingstone Njuba, Juan Gómez-Morantes, Andrea Herrera, Sonia Camacho
Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC), issue e12314 (2024), 16 pp.
"The HIV/AIDS pandemic is a global issue that has unequally affected several countries. Due to the complexity of this condition and the human drama it represents to those most affected by it, several fields have contributed to solving or at least alleviating this situation, and the information syste ... more
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The Top TV and Radio Stations in Kenya

Frankline Kibuacha
GeoPoll, February 18 (2024)
"The media landscape in Kenya continues to evolve, with television and radio remaining key sources of news, entertainment, and engagement for millions of people. GeoPoll’s Audience Measurement (GAM) data from January to December 2024 offers insights into the most-watched television stations and mo ... more
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Communication Rights in Africa: Emerging Discourses and Perspectives

Tendai Chari, Ufuoma Akpojivi (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2024), xxiii, 257 pp.
"Drawing on a broad range of case studies across the continent, the volume considers what constitutes communication rights in Africa, who should protect them, against whom, and how communication rights relate to broader human rights. While the case studies highlight the variation in communicative ri ... more
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Freedom of the Press, and Journalism Practices in Times of Uncertainty in the Case of Ethiopia

Mulatu Alemayehu Moges
Journalism Practice (2024), 19 pp.
"Ethiopia has been in a new transition since 2018 which resulted in changes in political arenas. In this period, the country has also been experiencing internal conflict and political instabilities. This article assesses how the political environment is convenient for the journalists to freely repor ... more
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Recommendations: Combating Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence in Ethiopia

Centre for Information Resilience (CIR) (2024), 9 pp.
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Communication, community engagement and accountability in Sudan’s regional response. Outcomes of the high-level meeting to discuss elevating collective CCEA in the regional Sudan conflict response

London: CDAC Network (2024), 4 pp.
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Indigenous African communication and media systems in a digitized age

Unwana Samuel Akpan, Eddah M. Mutua (eds.)
Des Wilson (honoured person)
New York: Bloomsbury Publishing (US) (2024), xxvi, 252 pp.
"Through a meticulous exploration of oral traditions and community-based media practices, Unwana Samuel Akpan, Eddah Mutua, and the contributors of Indigenous African Communication and Media Systems in a Digitized Age explore the intricate interplay between traditional African communication methods ... more
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Using social media for agricultural information dissemination: The role of informant-recipient homogeneity

Ryo Takahashi, Yasuyuki Todo, Yu Ri Kim, Yuzuka Kashiwagi, Denu Lemma Tsegaye
Journal of Developpment Effectiveness (2024), 28 pp.
"This study uses a randomised experiment targeting wheat producers in Ethiopia to examine the impact of providing market price information through Facebook on farmers’ sales behaviour. To identify the effect of informant homogeneity, we distinguished the informants’ nationality as either Ethiopi ... more
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Decolonizing Maasai History: A Path to Indigenous African Futures

Meitamei Olol Olol Dapash, Mary Poole
London; New York: Zed Publications; Bloomsbury Publishing (2024), 264 pp.
"In this open access book, Maasai leader and activist Meitamei Dapash teams with historian Mary Poole to offer a new version of Maasai history based on Maasai memory and concerns. Through their rich and detailed narrative, we learn not only about the history of the Maasai as they understand it, but ... more
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Digital Media Utilization by Catholic Archdiocese of Nyeri for Evangelization During COVID-19 Pandemic

Joseph Kibuthu Waithaka
Nairobi: Daystar University, Master Thesis (2024), xii, 119 pp.
"Tied on New Media Theory, this study came up with three objectives. First, to explore how the Catholic Archdiocese of Nyeri utilized digital media to reach its congregants during the COVID-19 pandemic. Secondly, to examine the views of congregants of the Catholic Archdiocese of Nyeri regarding the ... more
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Digitalization & Gender Norms: Learnings from CARE's Digital Pilot for VSLA Members in Rwanda & Uganda

Eric Kaduru, Julia Arnold
Care (2024), 10 pp.
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Indigenizing Emerging Technologies

Cultural Survival Quarterly, volume 48, issue 1 (2024), pp. 8-25
"Addressing a rarely-examined intersection, the magazine features eight articles highlighting the use of technology in Indigenous communities. These include AI’s role in exacerbating violence and inequality, the use of AI in tracking salmon migration, Indigenous representation in video games, and ... more
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Performing Technocapitalism

Alev Coban
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag; Hans Böckler Stiftung (2024), 298 pp.
"In Kenya, technology entrepreneurs and makers have to employ their work and emotions in order to re-script their peripheral positionalities within technocapitalism and make Kenya a place for technology development. Based on ethnographic research in makerspaces and co-working spaces in Nairobi, Alev ... more
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Environmental Communication

Anabela Carvalho, Tarla Rai Peterson (eds.)
Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton (2024), xx, 600 pp.
"This handbook reviews extant research and offers critical summaries of key topics and issues in the field, enriched by authoritative analyses of specific cases and examples. It displays pluralism across a number of axes: epistemological, theoretical, geographical, cultural, and thematic. The first ... 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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Reading Justice Claims on Social Media: Perspectives from the Global South

Phillip Santos, Cleophas T. Muneri (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xxi, 326 pp.
"This book explores how unresolved questions of social justice shape the character of the political terrain and political actors, through the lens of social media. It treats communication as the medium through which social issues and processes are made visible. Given the rise and spread of populist ... more
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Mauritians strongly endorse media freedom and public access to government information

Asafika Mpako, Stephen Ndoma
Afrobarometer (2024), 11 pp.
"Mauritians take a strong stand on freedom of information: Overwhelming majorities value the media’s role as a watchdog on government, think the media should be free of government interference, and demand public access to information held by the government, such as budgets and contracts. A majorit ... more
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Kenya Media Landscape Guide

London: CDAC Network; Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2024), 31 pp.