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Mediating Violence from Africa: Francophone Literature, Film, and Testimony after the Cold War
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press (2023), xx, 227 pp.
"Mediating Violence from Africa explores how African and non-African Francophone authors, filmmakers, editors, and scholars have packaged, interpreted, and filmed the violent histories of post–Cold War Francophone Africa. This violence, much of which unfolded in front of Western television cameras
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The Handbook of International Trends in Environmental Communication
New York; London: Routledge (2022), xxv, 514 pp.
"Bringing together theoretical, methodological, and practical chapters, this book presents a unique opportunity for environmental communication scholars to critically reflect on the past, examine present trends, and start envisioning exciting new methodologies, theories and areas of research. Chapte
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Building an Imperial Broadcasting Network as the Empire Disintegrated: The Birth of Radio in the French Sub-Saharan African Colonies During Decolonization
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 29, issue 1 (2022), pp. 120-135
"Whereas France owned the second most important empire in the world in 1945, the colonial domination paradoxically leaned very little on radio broadcasting. It was not until 1954 that the French governement, under the impulsion of Pierre Schaeffer, inventor of the “musique concrète,” launched a
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Politics and Journalism in Francophone Africa: Systems, Practices and Identities
Deep Insights
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2022), xxvii, 347 pp.
"This book provides a comprehensive approach of the media, journalism and politics in Sub-Saharan Francophone Africa. The author argues that there are common features that the media and journalism share in the seventeen countries of Francophone Africa and these make the local media systems different
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La distribution en France des films d'Afrique sud saharienne francophone
Présence Francophone: Revue Internationale de langue et de littérature, volume 95, issue 1 (2020), 23 pp.
"Depuis leur apparition apres les independances politiques, les films realises par les Africains originaires des anciennes colonies françaises subsahariennes ont ete tres peu diffuses dans les salles de l'ancienne metropole. A de tres rares exceptions pres, ils ont egalement tres peu ete vus par le
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Post-Coloniality and Path Dependency: Challenges at Stake in Media and Communication Research in Francophone Africa
In: The Palgrave Handbook of Media and Communication Research in Africa
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), pp. 73-94
"In this chapter, we demonstrate the challenges inherent in the process of truly overcoming coloniality in Francophone Africa. As we analyze the progressive institutionalization of the field through the creation of journalism schools and training centers, research networks and academic journals, we
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The Palgrave Handbook of Media and Communication Research in Africa
Deep Insights
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xxix, 497 pp.
"This handbook attempts to fill the gap in empirical scholarship of media and communication research in Africa, from an Africanist perspective. The collection draws on expert knowledge of key media and communication scholars in Africa and the diaspora, offering a counter-narrative to existing Wester
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Imaginaires médiatiques de la résilience pastorale en Afrique subsaharienne
Communiquer, volume 23 (2018), pp. 1-20
"Les médias sont souvent le reflet des idéologies dominantes d’une époque donnée, surtout lorsqu’ils sont portés par des institutions publiques. L’étude présentée dans cet article traite de l’un des grands paradigmes contemporains de l’aide publique au développement, fondé sur le
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Pratiques religieuses africaines et médias numériques: Prolonger la réflexion
Émulations: Revue de Sciences Sociales, issue 24 (2017), pp. 135-144
"Cette série de six articles, tous focalisés sur l’Afrique francophone, traite chacun à leur manière du thème principal de l’usage de l’Internet par des groupes religieux sur le continent africain. Cinq de ces contributions explorent l’usage religieux des médias numériques en Afrique
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The Evolution of Political Blogging in French-Speaking Sub-Saharan Africa
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2017), 8 pp.
"Political blogging in Francophone Africa is quite a recent phenomenon. Most bloggers are journalists and use their blogs to practice writing and/or report affairs they can’t cover in the mainstream media. A blog is therefore a tool for the publication of content to inform the users of development
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Journalismes d'Afrique
Deep Insights
Louvain-la-Neuve: De Boeck (2016), 386 pp.
"Cet ouvrage explore les systèmes médiatiques d’Afrique subsaharienne francophone et propose des clés pour aborder leurs spécificités via nombre d’éléments historiques, politiques, sociologiques, juridiques, économiques et technologiques, indispensables pour les replacer dans leur contex
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"Radio France Internationale" and "Deutsche Welle" in Francophone Africa: International Broadcasters in a Time of Change
Communication, Culture & Critique, volume 9 (2016), pp. 68-85
"For decades international radio broadcasters on the African continent were considered the tools of Western imperialism, ideological weapons in the Cold War. Yet international broadcasters also provided a crucial, alternative supply of information in times of state monopoly of the media and when the
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Book donation programmes for Africa: Time for a reappraisal? Part II: Le don de livre, mais à quel prix, et en échange de quoi? Un regard sur le don de livre en Afrique francophone
African Research & Documentation, issue 127 (2015), 76 pp.
"Dans cet article, je réfléchis à la relation entre don et marché éditorial en Afrique francophone ainsi qu’à son évolution. Comme je l’observe, l’intensification du don et la diffusion de l’idée qu’il n’y a pas de livres en Afrique coïncide avec l’essor de ce que l’on appel
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Médias d'Afrique: Vingt-cinq années de pluralisme de l'information (1990-2015)
Paris: Karthala (2015), 267 pp.
"Un quart de siècle s'est écoulé depuis les « transitions démocratiques » qui, au début des années 1990, ont ramené le pluralisme politique et médiatique en Afrique subsaharienne. Libéralisé, le champ des médias a connu des transformations spectaculaires, avec l'apparition de milliers d
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Francophone Africa: The Rise of 'Pluralist Authoritarian' Media Systems?
African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 1 (2015), pp. 103-112
"From the beginning of the process of opening up in the early 1990s, to the start of the 2000s, Francophone countries in Africa have been seen as ‘in transition‘, ‘emerging democracies‘ or ‘undergoing democratic consolidation‘. Their media were analysed through the lens of the ‘transit
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Le livre en Afrique francophone: Nouvelles perspectives éditoriales
French Studies in Southern Africa, volume 44, issue 2 (2014), pp. 120-143
"Cet article examine les dynamiques de délocalisation qui caractérisent l'économie du livre africain dans le champ littéraire africain francophone, en particulier depuis 1990. Il montre qu'il existe une histoire de l'édition en Afrique - fragmentée certes, mais réelle - loin de tous les mythe
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Cinema and Development in West Africa
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2013), xiv, 222 pp.
"Cinema and Development in West Africa shows how the film industry in Francophone West African countries played an important role in executing strategies of nation building during the transition from French rule to the early postcolonial period. James E. Genova sees the construction of African ident
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