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Global Report on the Status of Women in the News Media

Carolyn M. Byerly

Washington, DC: International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) (2011), 393 pp.

"There is abundant evidence of underrepresentation of women as subjects of coverage, but until now there were no reliable, comprehensive data on which to make a clear determination about where women currently fit into the news-making operation or in the decision-making or ownership structure of thei ... more

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The Bongo Flava Industry in Tanzania and Artists' Strategies for Success

Uta Reuster-Jahn, Gabriel Hacke

Mainz: Johannes Gutenberg University, Department of Anthropology and African Studies (2011), 21 pp.

"Bongo Flava is a Tanzanian category of contemporary urban youth music related to four simultaneous developments: democratization, privatization, globalization and media digitalization. Stylistically, it comprises Hiphop and R&B as well as other styles which have been appropriated by local artists w ... more

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National Studies on Assessing the Economic Contribution of the Copyright-Based Industries

Geneva: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (2011), 352 pp.

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Participatory Radio Campaigns and Food Security: How Radio Can Help Farmers Make Informed Decisions

Kevin Perkins, Doug Ward, Mark Leclair

Ottawa: Farm Radio International (2011), 88 pp.

"The African Farm Radio Research Initiative (AFRRI) was a 42-month action research project implemented by Farm Radio International (FRI) in partnership with World University Service of Canada (WUSC), and with the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. An estimated 40 million farmers in five ... more

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Marketing on the Airwaves: Marketing Information Service (MIS) and Radio

Sheila Huggins-Rao

Ottawa: Farm Radio International (2011), 63 pp.

"Farmers require varying marketing information, depending on their location, local market conditions, crops, production activities, and cultural practices. Radio has the capacity to reach a large audience, and can provide an integrated approach to market information, incorporating all these elements ... more

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The New Age of Radio: How ICTs Are Changing Rural Radio in Africa

Bartholomew Sullivan

Ottawa: Farm Radio International (2011), 138 pp.

"Low cost, modern information and communication technologies (ICTs), including mobile phones, multifunction MP3 recorders, and interactive voice response (IVR) can dramatically increase the capacity of rural radio to help farmers improve food security in Sub-Saharan Africa. Weekly SMS alerts sent to ... more

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News Broadcasting on South African Community Radio: In Search of New Public Spheres

Franz Krüger

African Journalism Studies, volume 32, issue 3 (2011), pp. 61-79

"The South African community station movement, consisting now of around 100 such stations, situates itself explicitly in the international tradition of alternative, grassroots and (in some cases) radical media. The stations aspire - and are mandated to - cater for poor and marginalised communities, ... more

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Public Service Broadcasting: A Comparative Legal Survey

Toby Mendel

Paris: UNESCO, 2nd ed., revised and updated (2011), ix, 96 pp.

"This book explores the legal and regulatory systems governing public service broadcasters in eight different countries around the world, looking at the services they provide, the way in which their mandates are defined, their internal governance systems, mechanisms of oversight or accountability an ... more

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The Image of Women in African Media

African Communication Research (St. Augustine University Mwanza), volume 4, issue 3 (2011), pp. 389-536

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The State of Media Freedom in Africa

African Communication Research (St. Augustine University Mwanza), volume 4, issue 2 (2011), pp. 221-388

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A New Frontier, an Old Landscape: A Report for the Ford Foundation About the Impact of Digital Communications on Media and Communications, and on Human Rights

Andrew Puddephatt, Dixie Hawtin, Laura Zommer, João Brant, Lina Attalah, Nagla Rizk, Ramnath Bhat, Merlyna Lim, Grace Githaiga, Rebecca Zausmer

London: Global Partners (2011), 270 pp.

Examines the impact that the rise of digital communications is having on the media, and on human rights activism. The report goes on to explore the main policy issues which must be addressed at the national and international levels to shape an enabling environment. The report combines global level a ... more

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An Exploratory Investigation Into the Status of Reading Promotion Projects in South Africa

Sabelo Ransome Chizwina

University of Pretoria, Master Thesis (2011), 171 pp.

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Sudan and South Sudan: Media and Telecoms Landscape Guide

infoasaid (2011), 92 pp.

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Can it Tweet its Way to Democracy? The Promise of Participatory Media in Africa

Abiye Megenta

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2011), 103 pp.

Offers a policy-focused overview of the state of online political participatory media in Tunisia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Uganda.

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The Fences of Silence: Systematic Repression of Freedom of the Press, Opinion and Expression in Sudan. A Report on Press Freedom in Sudan in the Interim Period (5 July, 2005 - July 9, 2011)

Abdelgadir Mohammed Abdelgadir

[author] (2011), 89 pp.

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Media and Post-Election Violence in Kenya

Mark Fackler, Levi Obonyo, Mitchell Terpstra, Emmanuel Okaalet

In: The Handbook of Global Communication and Media Ethics

Robert S. Fortner; Mark Fackler (eds.)

Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2011), pp. 626-654

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The Economic Contribution of Copyright-Based Industries in South Africa

Anastassios Pouris, Roula Inglesi-Lotz

Geneva; Pretoria: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO);University of Pretoria, Institute for Technological Innovation (2011), 76 pp.

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Commercial Rural Radio Program: The Emerging Effective Means to Improving Rural Livelihoods. The Case of INUKA

Ralph Engelmann, Terry Gilead, William Mato, Maja Rueegg, Braison Salisali

Dodoma (TZ): Rural Livelihood Development Company (RLDC);Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) (2011), 32 pp.

"INUKA’s primary objective was to address the interests and needs of the rural producers in the CC. Capacity building of radio staff proved to be an essential element to overcome the shortage of tailored expertise on agriculture and rural related radio programming and marketing. Listeners gave a p ... more

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The Trans-Saharan Book Trade: Manuscript Culture, Arabic Literacy and Intellectual History in Muslim Africa

Graziano Krätli, Ghislaine Lydon (eds.)

Leiden; Boston: Brill (2011), xii, 422 pp.

"As the manuscript treasures in the libraries of Timbuktu and throughout the northwestern quarter of Africa become known, many questions are raised. How did a manuscript culture flourish in the Sahara and in Muslim Africa more generally? Under what conditions did African intellectuals thrive, and ho ... more

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Mid-Term Review BBC World Service Trust Project ‘A National Conversation’

Mary Myers

DFID Governance and Transparency Fund (2011), 57 pp.

"A National Conversation' is a 5-year project funded by DFID's Governance and Transparency Fund (GTF) delivered by the BBC World Service Trust (BBC WST). Its purpose is to 'enhance media's capacity to cover governance issues by increasing transparency, accountability and citizen participation in med ... more