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Youth, Deprivation and the Internet in Africa

Chenai Chair, Ariane De Lannoy
Research ICT Africa; International Development Research Centre (IDRC); SALDRU (2018), 38 pp.
"The potential for young people to strengthen and grow the continent’s economies is only possible if they are adequately supported and provided with the tools they need to create a sustainable livelihood. Economic opportunities are a significant concern for young people globally, with youth three ... more
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Examining diffusion to understand the how of SASA!, a violence against women and HIV prevention intervention in Uganda

Elizabeth Starmann, Lori Heise, Nambusi Kyegombe et al.
BMC Public Health, volume 18, issue 616 (2018), 20 pp.
"This paper is based on a qualitative study of couples living in SASA communities and secondary analysis of endline quantitative data collected as part of a cluster randomised control trial designed to evaluate the impact of the SASA! intervention. The primary trial was conducted in eight communitie ... more
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African Media Barometer: Botswana 2018

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2018), 61 pp.
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Chinese Media Engagement in South Africa

Dani Madrid-Morales, Herman Wasserman
Journalism Studies, volume 19, issue 8 (2018), pp. 1218-1235
"China’s footprint in Africa’s media sector over the last decade has reached dimensions that make it impossible to go unnoticed. In South Africa, one of the countries where this imprint is most diversified, Chinese media have been engaged in a varied range of activities, including content produc ... more
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Bridging Theory and Practice in Entertainment Education: An Assessment of the Conceptualization and Design of Tsha Tsha in South Africa

Blessing Makwambeni, Abiodun Salawu
Sage Open, issue January-March (2018), 12 pp.
"The entertainment–education (E-E) strategy in development communication has been widely described as the panacea to development challenges in Africa. However, despite its growing application on the continent, E-E is still argued to be inhibited from contributing meaningfully toward development ef ... more
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Media Coverage of Child Rights Issues in Uganda: The Case of 'The New Vision'

Ivan Ashaba, Marlon Agaba
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 10, issue 2 (2018), pp. 149-168
"Despite having a robust child protection framework and a burgeoning media, child rights abuse still occurs in Uganda. This takes the form of child neglect, defilement, torture, trafficking. The researchers set out to investigate media coverage of child rights issues in Uganda. A triangulation of me ... more
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Public Engagement in Malawi Through a Health-Talk Radio Programme ‘Umoyo Nkukambirana’: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation

Deborah Nyirenda, Tamara Chipasula Makawa, Chapita, Greyson, Chisomo Mdalla, Nkolokosa, Mzati et al.
Public Understanding of Science, volume 27, issue 2 (2018), pp. 229-242
"Radio is an effective source of health information in many resource poor countries. In Malawi, 53% of households own radios however few radio programmes in Malawi focus on health issues in the context of medical research. An interactive health-talk radio programme ‘Umoyo nkukambirana’ was intro ... more
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African Language Digital Media and Communication

Abiodun Salawu (ed.)
London; New York: Routledge (2018), xi, 236 pp.
"This book analyses the online presence of African language media. The chapters in the book focus on the speed, structure, content, navigation and interactivity, operations and performance, and audience of the online media. They also pay particular attention to how social media such as Facebook, Twi ... more
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Participatory Communication, Theatre and Peace: Performance as a Tool for Change at the End of Conflict

Valentina Baú
Communicatio: South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research, volume 44, issue 1 (2018), pp. 34-54
"This article presents insights on a participatory theatre initiative implemented in Kenya, with the aim of understanding the changes that were initiated towards the re-establishment of peace between communities. The project was carried out in the aftermath of the post-election violence that took pl ... more
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Women in News Somalia

Kalmar: Fojo Media Institute (2018), 5 pp.
"Women in News Somalia aims to increase women’s leadership and voices in the media. It does so by equipping women journalists and editors with the skills, strategies, and support networks to take on greater leadership positions within their media. Through a two-year programme (2015-2017) twelve wo ... more
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Private Print Media, the State and Politics in Colonial and Post-Colonial Zimbabwe

Sylvester Dombo
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xvii, 277 pp.
"This book examines the role played by two popular private newspapers in the struggle for democracy in Zimbabwe, one case from colonial Rhodesia and the other from the post-colonial era. It argues that, operating under oppressive political regimes and in the dearth of credible opposition political p ... more
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African Media Barometer: South Africa 2018

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2018), 65 pp.
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Report on the Evaluation of the Level of Knowledge and Skills Acquired Under the Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) Transparency and Accountability Project

African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) (2018), 29 pp.
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News in Botswana: Themes in Contemporary Journalism

Richard Rooney
SMC Online Publishers (2018), 228 pp.
"This book is about news and journalism in Botswana, which is an underresearched topic. It is aimed at students of journalism or media studies but is also useful to media practitioners interested in learning about the environment in which they work. The idea for the book came to me after I left the ... more
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Ethiopia in Transition: Hope Amid Challenges

Rashweat Mukundu, Finn Rasmussen
International Media Support (IMS) (2018), 22 pp.
"This report presents the findings of a media environment assessment in Ethiopia led by International Media Support (IMS) within the context of the present socio-political developments in the country [...] The specific objective of the mission was to carry out an assessment of the media landscape in ... more
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State of the Newsroom 2017: Fakers and Makers

Alan Finlay (ed.)
Johannesburg: University of the Witwatersrand, Wits Journalism (2018), iv, 60 pp.
"The fourth annual report looks at jobs in the newsroom, fake news and fact-checking journalism, and highlights the problem of threats to media freedom in South Africa. In a survey conducted across a range of newsrooms both big and small, it found that young, black women journalists are more likely ... more
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Overview of the Ethiopian Media Landscape

Bent Nørby Bonde
Media Progress (2018), 68 pp.
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Ugandan Women Online: A Quantitative Survey on Digital Literacy in Uganda

Pollicy; Internews (2018), 21 pp.
"We found that knowledge around digital security amongst women in Kampala is quite low. A high proportion of women have been victims of cyberbullying without any obvious routes to seeking justice against perpetrators. There is an urgency for law enforcement and government to hand down stricter penal ... more
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Financial Inclusion Youth Toolkit

Cape Town: Children’s Radio Foundation (CRF) (2018), 121 pp.
"Between August 2017 and July 2018, CRF implemented the Kilimo Mtaji project (“agriculture makes sense” in Swahili) in Tanzania and DRC. The aim of the project was to seize the power of youth-produced radio shows and outreach events in order to share key messages that raise awareness around fina ... more
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Do East Africans Still Want a Free Media? Afrobarometer Finds Weakening Popular Support

Accra: Afrobarometer (2018), 5 pp.
"Popular support for a free news media has declined significantly in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania – three countries currently making headlines for government attempts to limit press freedom. Recent Afrobarometer surveys show that the proportion of respondents who say the government “should have t ... more