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Assessment of Communication, Community Engagement and Accountability in Sudan

CDAC Network; UNICEF (2022), 22 pp.
"The humanitarian Communication, Community Engagement and Accountability (CCEA) coordination structures in Sudan are primarily led by UN agencies with governmental counterparts at the sector level in Khartoum and field sites. These coordination structures have a relatively low level of representatio ... more
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Lugara #2: Humanitarian Bulletin, April 1-30, 2022

Internews (2022), 8 pp.
"The Lugara Humanitarian Bulletin is an output of Internews in South Sudan. Under the global Rooted in Trust project, Internews in South Sudan aims to address concerns of diverse communities, including IDPs, refugees, cattle communities, youth, through online and face to face social listening." (Pag ... more
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Kenyan Media Coverage of the 2022 Elections

Kampala: African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) (2022), viii, 83 pp.
"This report examines at Kenyan news media coverage of the 2022 elections, focusing on four key publications, nine television stations, 11 radio stations, and three digital media channels. The report further pays particular attention to the coverage of the four presidential candidates, focusing on w ... more
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UNESCO's Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP) Action in Kenya: 2018-2021 Quadrennial Report, Country Summaries

Paris: UNESCO (2022), 4 pp.
"During the reporting period 2018-2021, UNESCO has worked closely with Kenyan youth leaders, media professionals, parliamentarians and religious leaders to encourage the government to adopt a Draft National Media and Information Literacy Strategy. The first outcome realized during this period was th ... more
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Reframing Africa? Reflections on Modernity and the Moving Image

Cynthia Kros, Reece Auguiste, Pervaiz Khan (eds.)
Cape Town; Bethlehem, PA: African Minds; Media Studies Press (2022), ix, 246 pp.
"Reframing Africa is at root a project about the African archive broadly defined. It asks questions pertaining to this archive as a repository of historical knowledge, its systems of classification, and what strategies should be developed to ensure its preservation in light of state negligence. In a ... more
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Age-Inclusive ICT Innovation for Service Delivery in South Africa: A Developing Country Perspective

Vera Roos, Jaco Hoffman (eds.)
Cham: Springer (2022), xxi, 257 pp.
"Worldwide, it is anticipated that care needs of older populations will outstrip available resources. Sub-Saharan Africa lacks relevant long-term care systems for older persons, and technology could play a crucial role in supporting families, communities and government in vital care management. This ... more
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Dez anos da lei de acesso à informação: Limites, perspectivas e desafios

Elen Geraldes, Alessandra Durante, Barros Dirlene, Gabriela Kaya et al.
São Paulo: Intercom – Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação (2022), 260 pp.
"Este livro surge em defesa da Lei de Acesso às Informações Públicas, que completa dez anos da entrada em vigor em 16 de maio de 2022. A Lei 12.527/11 ou LAI, como é conhecida, é inegavelmente um instrumento importante para a promoção da participação e da cidadania para a constituição de ... more
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Manuscript and Print in the Islamic Tradition

Scott Reese (ed.)
Berlin, Boston: Walter de Gruyter (2022), viii, 374 pp.
"This volume explores and calls into question certain commonly held assumptions about writing and technological advancement in the Islamic tradition. In particular, it challenges the idea that mechanical print naturally and inevitably displaces handwritten texts as well as the notion that the so-cal ... more
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African Media Barometer: Namibia 2022

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2022), 83 pp.
"On the surface, Namibia’s stellar reputation as the beacon of media freedom remains intact, but the role of the Fourth Estate in speaking truth to power is gradually being eroded as state officials become increasingly intolerant of the media in Namibia. The perceptible decline in the media landsc ... more
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Stronger Digital Voices from Africa: Building African Digital Foreign Policy and Diplomacy

Sorina Teleanu, Jovan Kurbalija
DiploFoundation (2022), 201 pp.
"As Africa’s digital dynamism grows, its participation in global digital policy must increase. In this transition, African countries have to navigate the geopolitical realities of our times. This study provides a snapshot of Africa’s digital diplomacy by examining the holistic representations of ... more
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Vulnerable People and Digital Inclusion: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives

Panayiota Tsatsou (ed.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2022), xxvii, 346 pp.
"This edited collection explores the role of digital inclusion in the welfare and social inclusion of vulnerable people. With interdisciplinary contributors from six continents, working in diverse fields such as digital media studies, social computing, community informatics and cultural studies, the ... more
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Deploying the Common Social Accountability Platform (CSAP) to Support the Strength Through Tolerance Project That Aims at Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (PCVE) in Somalia

Nairobi: Africa’s Voices Foundation (2022), vi, 20 pp.
"The following are the key insights identified across all three weeks of the radio dialogue: In week one of radio dialogue, 36.2% of the participants (n=125) and week 3 55.1% (n=266) of participants agreed that there should be unity and cooperation among all members of the community. They stated tha ... more
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Rooted in Trust: The Humanitarian Bulletin. Zimbabwe, June, 2022

Internews (2022), 6 pp.
"Internews in Zimbabwe collected 276 rumors on-line and 36 offline in the communities of Masvingo, Matabeleland South, Matabeleland North, Bulawayo, and Midlands. The most trending rumors include that COVID-19 vaccines are unsafe for children (35%), COVID-19 vaccines cause death (31%), COVID-19 vacc ... more
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Gender Equality and Media Regulation Study: Zimbabwe

Virginia Muwanigwa, Fadzai Traquino
Fojo Media Institute (2022), 26 pp.
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Open Learning as a Means of Advancing Social Justice: Cases in Post-School Education and Training in South Africa

Tabisa Mayisela, Shanali C. Govender, Cheryl Ann Hodgkinson-Williams (eds.)
Cape Town: African Minds (2022), xi, 396 pp.
"This volume investigates the uptake of 'open learning' in South African Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges and higher education institutions. Comprised of 16 studies focused on activities at a range of colleges and universities across the country, these chapters aim to prom ... more
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Africa Entertainment & Media Outlook 2022-2026

Alinah Motaung, Charles Stuart, Elenor Jensen
Price Waterhouse Coopers (pwc) (2022), 16 pp.
"Entertainment and media (E&M) revenue across South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya grew strongly in 2021 as all three markets, like the rest of the world, recovered from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Industries that were more severely impacted in 2020, such as live music and B2B trade shows, made ... more
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A 10+10+30 Radio Campaign is Associated with Increased Infant Vaccination and Decreased Morbidity in Jimma Zone, Ethiopia: A Prospective, Quasi-Experimental Trial

Bernard Appiah, Lakew Abebe Gebretsadik, Abebe Mamo, Brittany Kmush, Yisalemush Asefa,
Plos Global Public Health, volume 2, issue 11: e0001002 (2022), 19 pp.
"To date, no study has evaluated the effect of a radio-only campaign on infant vaccination coverage, timeliness, and related morbidity in a low-income country. We implemented the "10+10+30" radio campaign involving broadcasting a weekly 10-minute radio drama series on vaccination, followed by a 10-m ... more
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Digital Migration and Access to Information: The Southern African Experience

Norah Appolus
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2022), 8 pp.
"This document concludes that 1. Digital broadcasting migration is generally a process in which broadcasting services offered on traditional analogue technology are replaced with digital networks. It is the transition or switch from analogue broadcasting to digital broadcasting; 2. Most Southern Afr ... more
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A Dark Place for Women Journalists & Women Human Rights Defenders: Documenting the Experiences of Online Violence in Anglo & Francophone Countries

Nyamwire Bonnita, Metial Kupfer, Siba Yahaya Mardiya
Internews; Pollicy (2022), 46 pp.
"All respondents had experienced online violence. Misogynistic hate speech, sexists’ comments, body shaming as well as slut shaming was common among the women journalists and WHRDs interviewed. These threats were also extended to their families, friends, relatives and networks. Another frequently ... more
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Endline Report on Ugandan Media Coverage of Road Safety

Kampala: African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) (2022), v, 35 pp.
"This study looks at Ugandan news media coverage of road safety, focusing on the country's three main daily newspapers, three television stations, and two online platforms. The study explores the attention and the nature of coverage these media platforms paid road safety (including road traffic cras ... more