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"The final report of a study of textbook provision in Tanzania, which was part of a wider book sub-sector study financed by ODA and the World Bank. Includes a review of the existing literature, interviews, and reports on field visits to schools. Concludes with an examination of the major issues faci ... more

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Management of Agricultural Information Services: Report of the DSE/ESAMI Training Course for Agricultural Librarians and Documentalists Held in Arusha/Tanzania from 15th - 30th October 1987, in Cooperation with FAO

Augustes Musana, Lutz Hüttemann (eds.)

Bonn; Arusha: German Foundation for International Development (DSE);Eastern and Southern African Management Institute (1988), 109 pp.

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International Handbook of Broadcasting Systems

Philip T. Rosen

New York: Greenwood Press (1988), xvii, 309 pp.

"Twenty-eight experts examine broadcasting in 24 countries in this essay handbook. John Lent takes on Cuba and India; Benno Signitzer and Kurt Luger look at Austria; and Marvin Alisky reports on Chile, Mexico, and Peru. Other included countries are Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, the Fede ... more

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Communication and Domination: Essays to Honor Herbert I. Schiller

Jörg Becker, Göran Hedebro, Leena Paldén (eds.)

Herbert I. Schiller (honoured person)

Norwood, NJ: Ablex (1986), x, 278 pp.

"Scholars from various countries of the socialist and capitalist - the developing and developed - world, and representing many of the disparate areas that make up the interdisciplinary field of communication, have contributed articles centering around Schiller's dominant theme - the use and misuse o ... more

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The African Press

Martin Ochs

Cairo: American University Press in Cairo (1986), 138 pp.

"Although a number of books have been written on African journalism, this, according to Ochs, a professor of mass communication at the American University in Cairo, is the first to take an overall look at the continent as a whole, notwithstanding the lack of data and frequent change of ownership whi ... more

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News Out of Africa: Biafra to 'Band Aid'

Paul Harrison, Robin Palmer

London: Hilary Shipman (1986), 147 pp.

"Frederick Forsyth reveals how he resigned from the BBC to report from Biafra - and attack the British government. Jonathan Dimbleby describes the risks he took in filming 'The Unknown Famine' - which toppled an emperor. Mohamed Amin and Michael Buerk tell how their last-minute partnership in Ethiop ... more

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Making Broadcasting Useful: The African Experience. The Development of Radio and Television in Africa in the 1980s

George Wedell, James Kangwana, Lawrence Lawler (eds.)

Manchester: Manchester University Press;European Institute for the Media (1986), x, 306 pp.

"The second part grew out of the Symposium of Broadcasting Organization and Management held in 1984 at the request of UNESCO, The U.K. Overseas Development Administration, and the British Council, in which a group of directors of broadcasting organizations and permanent secretaries of ministries of ... more

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Fernsehen und ländliche Entwicklung: Der Fall Sudan

Detlef Kalb

Hamburg: Institut für Afrikakunde (1986), vi, 292 pp.

"Diese Studie präsentiert eine empirische Analyse des lokalen Bildungsfernsehsystems in der sudanesischen Provinz Gezira, das in den siebziger Jahren mit deutscher Entwicklungshilfe eingeführt und gefördert wurde [...] Auf der Grundlage seiner Erkenntnisse aus dem Sudan argumentiert der Autor, da ... more

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Books and Reading in Tanzania

Walter Bgoya

Paris: UNESCO, Book Promotion and International Exchanges Division (1986), 76 pp.

"One of a series of national monographs on the state of books and reading in a number of countries, published in order to provide book professionals and the interested public, with detailed surveys of matters relating to authorship, publishing, material production and distribution of books and readi ... more

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Images: The Third World on West German TV and the Federal Republic in the Media of Third World Countries

Will Teichert (ed.)

Bonn: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (1985), 182 pp.

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Neue Informationstechnologien und Entwicklungszusammenarbeit

Rolf Arnold (ed.)

Baden-Baden: Nomos;Deutsche Stiftung für Internationale Entwicklung (DSE) (1985), 252 pp.

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Publishing in the Third World: Knowledge and Development
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Philip G. Altbach, Amadio A. Aroleda, S. Gopinathan (eds.)

Portsmouth, New Hampsh.; London: Heinemann;Mansell (1985), xii, 226 pp.

"An in-depth look at the "state of the art" of book publishing in the Third World which examines not only the nuts and bolts but also its status as an important part of the knowledge distribution system. The first 50 pages discuss the status of textbook publishing, copyright, and distribution; the r ... more

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Publishing and Book Development in Africa: A Bibliography = L'édition et le développement du livre en Afrique: Une bibliographie

Hans M. Zell (comp.)

Paris: UNESCO (1984), 143 pp.

"The earliest version of the bibliography, superseded by the 1996 volume, lists titles by topic and region, and includes author, subject, geographical indexes. Cites 685 references, and includes an introductory essay in English and French. It is now also available online, and contains a number of ci ... more

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The Book Trade of the World. Vol. IV: Africa

Sigfred Taubert, Peter Weidhaas (eds.)

Munich: Saur (1984), 391 pp.

"The fourth and final volume of the Book Trade of the World, a series of books that aimed to provide a convenient reference tool to the world's publishing and bookselling industries, and to the institutions, organizations, and journals which are associated with them. The information on each country ... more

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Die Fremden sehen: Ethnologie und Film. Anläßlich der Filmreihe 'Die Fremden sehen, Ethnologie und Film' des Filmmuseums im Münchner Stadtmuseum vom Januar bis April 1984

Margarete Friedrich, A. Hagemann-Doumbia, Reinhard Kapfer, Werner Petermann, Ralph Thoms, M.-J. van de Loo (eds.)

München: Trickster Verlag;Filmmseum München (1984), 224 pp.

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Media for People in Cities: A Study of Community Media in the Urban Context

Peter M. Lewis (ed.)

UNESCO (1984), 239 pp.

"Although rural development, especially in the Third World, is a major concern of UNESCO, emphasis here is upon those uses of media which support community initiatives in urban settings or were introduced to help resolve tensions and problems. Media are not limited to newspapers and broadcasting; th ... more

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Medienmacht im Nord-Süd-Konflikt: Die Neue Internationale Informationsordnung

Rainer Steinweg (ed.)

Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp (1984), 441 pp.

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Mass Communication in Africa

Graham Mytton

London: Edward Arnold (1983), viii, 159 pp.

"The first half places African mass communications in a broad social context, touching on their history, technology, politics, etc.; the second half consists of three case studies: Zambia, Tanzania and Nigeria. A final chapter discusses roles and controls. The North African countries are not include ... more

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