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"This study is currently the most comprehensive survey of textbook distribution in sub-Saharan Africa. If offers a detailed survey and analysis of the key policy issues affecting book distribution in Africa today. The study was organized and co-ordinated by International Book Development Ltd. in Lon ... don, and Danaé-Sciences, a Paris-based consultancy company specialising in editorial support, training and written communication. It draws on a series of major case studies carried out in Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria and Uganda, together with mini case studies from Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Senegal, Tanzania and Togo, undertaken by book practitioners in these countries, most from the private sector. All of the case studies cover some common elements, including, for example, information on the national education system (including basic education statistics), and a discussion of the main players and mechanisms in the book distribution chain; they also review regional trade in books, and most case studies comment upon the impact of funding, agency investment, and government policies affecting national book development. In addition to the case studies, a useful feature is the inclusion of a fold-out chart “Critical issues on upgrading book distribution in Africa – A decision tree for policy-makers”, which shows the key options that policy makers need to consider in developing a national framework for textbook delivery. An extensive glossary of common terms and acronyms used in education, development and the book trade, completes the volume. The survey concludes “there is already a policy change underway among a number of governments and funding agencies in their approaches toward national textbook distribution. This change is more apparent in Anglophone than in Francophone countries and is by no means universal even in Anglophone countries. But the reaction against the inefficiencies, the lack of a service culture and the typically high cost operations of state centralist policies is now almost ten years old.” It also notes that times are changing, and that senior government officials in many countries now openly acknowledge and welcome the increasing involvement of the private sector in educational book provision activity." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1515) more

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Child Abuse on the Internet: Ending the Silence

Carlos A. Arnaldo (ed.)

Paris; New York: UNESCO;Berghahn (2001), 220 pp.

"Child pornography and the sexual abuse of children through misuse of the media and the internet are complex yet closely related issues. Not only do they necessitate complex solutions, they also demand a social response from all sectors of society. This volume records the response of these various s ... more

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Michel Ben Arrous (dir.)

Paris: Panos Afrique de l'Ouest;Karthala (2001), 223 pp.

"Les articles sont issus de trois conférences organisées à Accra en 1996, Kampala en 1997 et Accra en 1999 sur le thème "Les médias et la construction de la paix en Afrique". Le comportement et la coresponsabilité des médias pendant le génocide rwandais de 1994 ont été à l'origine de cett ... more

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Towards an Integrated Media Support Strategy for (English-Speaking) Sub-Saharan Africa

Rolf Freier

Frank Priess (contrib.)

Sankt Augustin: Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) (2001), 35 pp.

"The Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAF) is in the process of restructuring its media support programmes in sub-Saharan Africa. In November 2000, Frank Priess (KAF, Buenos Aires) and I presented the concept for a revised media support strategy. Based on a critical revision of the political framework an ... more

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Public Libraries in Africa: A Report and Annotated Bibliography

Aissa Isaak (comp.)

Oxford: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) (2000), vi, 199 pp.

"The synthesis of literature quoted in the bibliography and the country reports portrays the public library movement in Africa as being very weak, with numerous problems regarding financial constraints, lack of human resources, outdated materials and poor use. The only sector of the African populati ... more

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Entertainment-Education and HIV/AIDS Prevention: A Field Experiment in Tanzania

Peter W. Vaughan, Everett M. Rogers, Arvind Singhal, Ramadhan M. Swalehe

Journal of Health Communication, volume 5, issue 1, Supplement 1 (2000), pp. 81-100

"Entertainment-education is the process of designing and implementing an entertainment program to increase audience members' knowledge about a social issue, create more favorable attitudes, and change their overt behaviors regarding the social issue. The results of a field experiment in Tanzania to ... more

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African Youth on the Information Highway: Participation and Leadership in Community Development

Osita Ogbu, Paschal Mihyo (eds.)

Ottawa: International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2000), 110 pp.

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Media Status Report: Ethiopia

Maria Tsega, Genamow Abebe

Groupe de recherche et d’échanges technologiques (GRET) (2000), 12 pp.

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Media & HIV/AIDS in East and Southern Africa: A Resource Book

UNESCO (2000), 147 pp.

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Neue Medien und Öffentlichkeiten: Politik und Tele-Kommunikation in Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika. Bd.1

Stefan Brüne (ed.)

Hamburg: Deutsches Übersee-Institut (2000), 451 pp.

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Mehr als nur eine Chance: Erfahrungsbericht über die neue Informations- und Bildungsarbeit (IBA) des Deutschen Entwicklungsdienstes (DED) in Uganda

Erhard Brunn

epd-Entwicklungspolitik, issue 14-15 (2000), pp. 22-26

"In 1996, the German Development Service (DED) adopted a new strategy paper with the aim of promoting more active information and education work. The author Erhard Brunn was the first DED development worker to take up this new task in Uganda in 1997. He was in charge of preparing German development ... more

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Déontologie des médias: Institutions, pratiques et nouvelles approches dans le monde

Henri Pigeat, Jean Huteau

Paris: UNESCO (2000), 574 pp.

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Media Culture and Performance in Kenya

Mitch Odero, Esther Kamweru (eds.)

Nairobi: Eastern Africa Media Institute (EAMI);Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2000), 246 pp.

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Case Studies of Non-Formal Education by Distance and Open Learning

Richard Siaciwena (ed.)

Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning (2000), 149 pp.

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So This is Democracy? State of the Media in Southern Africa 1999

Raashied Galant, Jeanette Minnie, Zach Wales (eds.)

Windhoek: Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2000), 252 pp.

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Books for Schools: Improving Access to Supplementary Reading Materials in Africa

Diana Rosenberg (ed.)

London: Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), Working Group on Books and Learning Materials (2000), xii, 200 pp.

"The aim of this study was to examine some of the models through which the school population in Africa gain access to supplementary reading material, and to reach some conclusions which methods work best, and in which circumstances, and to recommend strategies that are affordable and sustainable. Gi ... more

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