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Africa Privacy Report 2023/2024: A Review of Policy Trends and Digital Frontiers in the Data Protection Landscape

Linda Bonyo, Jorge Clarke, Risper Onyango et al.

Nairobi: Lawyers Hub (2024), 46 pp.

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Amplifying voices from the margins: A handbook for building a sustainable and transformative community radio station

Kudzai Kwangwari, Ntando Dumani

Harare: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES);National Association of Community Broadcasters (NACB) (2024), 82 pp.

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Commemorative Newsletter of the ACHPR Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information in Africa

Hlengiwe Dube (ed.)

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2024), 66 pp.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Adoption by Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Zambia. A Survey Report

Internews;FHI 360;USAID (2024), 16 pp.

"The findings reveal that 44% of CSOs are currently utilizing AI tools, with generative AI being the most popular, while 96% of non-users are considering future integration. However, 54% have not yet adopted AI. Perceptions of AI’s impact on job security vary, with 48% seeing no threat, 13% percei ... 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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Same threats, different platforms? Female journalists’ experiences of online gender-based violence in selected newsrooms in Namibia

Itai Zviyita, Admire Mare

Journalism, volume 25, issue 4 (2024), pp. 779-799

"Concerns about the disproportionate levels of online gender-based abuse experienced by female journalists when compared to their male counterparts have attracted sizeable scholarly attention in the last few years. Extant studies have highlighted that female journalists experience online forms of ha ... more

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Radio Kwizera: Media development in crisis regions

Sheila Mysorekar

Deutsche Welle DW Akademie, March 12 (2024)

"Kwizera" means hope. Since 2020, DW Akademie has been supporting a radio station of the same name in northwestern Tanzania. It provides vital information to refugees and the surrounding communities." (Introduction)

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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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Sauti za Waandishi: Journalists’ voices. A survey of Tanzanian media practitioners

Dar es Salaam: Twaweza East Africa (2024), 20 pp.

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South African Media and Politics: Is the Three Models Approach Still Valid After Two Decades?

Bernardine Jones, Adrian Hadland

Media and Communication, volume 12, issue 7723 (2024), 12 pp.

"When Hallin and Mancini (2004) produced their watershed three models theory, South Africa was a new democracy barely a decade old. Even then, along with other countries of the Global South, the experience of a young democracy posed certain critical challenges to Hallin and Mancini's understanding o ... 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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Digital Inclusion for Youth Democratic Participation in Namibia

Josua Hamunyela

Windhoek: Namibia Media Trust (2024), 24 pp.

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The vexed question of Ethiopian identity-driven politics and the discourse of political communication in the digital media sphere

Dessalegn Yeshambel Wassie, Mulatu Alemayehu Moges, Biset Ayalew Nigatu

Cogent Arts & Humanities, volume 11, issue 1, 2308727 (2024), 18 pp.

"This study aims to examine the interplay between political communication and discursive practices in the emerging new media landscape after the recent political reform in Ethiopia. The study employs interpretative textual analysis in qualitative research approach to analyze political communication ... 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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Looking at Listening: Gender and Race in Commercial Advertising for Radio Sets in Southern Africa from the 1950s to the 1970s

Peter Brooke

Journal of African Cultural Studies, volume 36, issue 1 (2024), pp. 74-93

"This article takes a visual approach to the study of an auralmedium. It argues that the radio set had a powerful visual presence in popular culture in Southern Africa between the 1950s and the 1970s when most people bought their first radio sets. Advertisements for radios carried by the press offer ... more

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The Limits of Governmentality: Call-in Radio and the Subversion of Neoliberal Evangelism in Zambia

Alastair Fraser

Jounal of African Cultural Studies, volume 36, issue 1 (2024), pp. 41-57

"The spread of mobile telephones in Africa has enabled a broad range of citizens to join live conversations on call-in radio shows. Both African governments and foreign aid agencies claim that broadcasting such debates can raise awareness, amplify the voices of the poor, and facilitate development a ... more

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Zambia’s Support for the African National Congress’s Radio Freedom in Lusaka, 1967–1992

Peter Sekibakiba Lekgoathi, Thomas Kasonde Mukonde Mukonde

Journal of African Cultural Studies, volume 36, issue 1 (2024), pp. 24-40

"This article explores the contribution Zambia made to the liberation struggle in South Africa by hosting the ANC’s Radio Freedom in Lusaka. It relies on a combination of archival evidence (audio and documentary sources) from both countries, and interviews conducted with the broadcasters and other ... more

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Influence of Digital Media on Radio’s Public Discourse: A Case Study of Gagasi FM and Ukhozi FM

Siphumelele Zondi, Tigere P. Muringa

Communicatio (2024), 29 pp.

"This article examined the effects of digital media on radio’s role in public discourse and civic engagement in South Africa. The study combined a review of existing literature with empirical research using in-depth interviews with 10 participants that included radio producers and listeners from r ... more

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Forte FM’s Programming Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Alice, South Africa

Oluyinka Osunkunle

Communicatio, volume 50, issue 3 (2024), pp. 106-124

"The advent of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in 2019 brought great fear of the unknown to the whole world. It therefore became very important for people and nations around the world to get the needed information on how to cope with the novel virus. Community radio broadcasting was at t ... more

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Effects of Radio-Based Extension Services on farmers’ Adoption of Organo-Mineral Fertilizers, Biofertilizers, and Manure in Lesotho

Nthapeliseng Nthama, O. I. Oladele

Journal of Radio & Audio Media (2024), 17 pp.

"This study examined the effects of radio-based extension services on farmers’ adoption of organo-mineral fertilizer, biofertilizer, and manure in Lesotho using a sample of 1659 farmers extracted from the 2019/2020 agricultural production survey database Bureau of Statistics (BOS). Data were analy ... more