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Healing the Messenger: A Journalist’s Trauma Booklet. Special Edition Kenya

Nairobi; Copenhagen: Kenya Association of Photographers, Illustrators and Designers;Kenya Correspondents Association;Kenya Union of Journalists;International Media Support (IMS) (2009), 38 pp.

"Providing counseling for reporters who have witnessed some of the worst things that can happen to humanity – with no tools to handle the emotional shock – was identified as one of the most imminent and crucial needs for support to Kenyan media practitioners in the aftermath of the disputed Dece ... more

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Untold: Stories in a Time of HIV & AIDS. Audience Reception and Capacity Building Report

Soul City (2009), 24 pp.

"The Untold films bear testimony to the success of the skills development element of this Regional Programme initiative. The fact that these television dramas were developed, written, directed and produced in Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabw ... more

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Cartooning in Africa
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John A. Lent (ed.)

Cresskill: Hampton Press (2009), xi, 383 pp.

"This volume documents from historical and contemporary perspectives, the situations, trends and issues of cartooning in a number of African countries, and profiles the individuals, forms and phenomena that stand out. All types of cartooning are covered, including comic books, comic strips, gag and ... more

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Children's Views Not in the News: Portrayal of Children in South African Print Media 2009

Ronell Naidoo

Melissa Meyer; William Bird (eds.)

Johannesburg: Media Monitoring Africa (2009), 32 pp.

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Media Coverage of HIV/AIDS and TB Issues in Ethiopia: Challenges and Opportunities

Mekuria Meksaha

Kampala: Panos Eastern Africa (2009), viii, 46 pp.

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Global Information Society Watch 2009: Focus on Access to Online Information and Knowledge – Advancing Human Rights and Democracy

Alan Finlay (ed.)

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Hivos (2009), 231 pp.

"GISWatch has three interrelated goals: surveying the state of the field of information and communications technology (ICT) policy at local and global levels; encouraging critical debate; strengthening networking and advocacy for a just, inclusive information society. Each year the report focuses on ... more

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Manual sobre periodismo y justicia transicional: Oportunidades y desafíos para el periodismo regional en Colombia

José Barbeito

Bogotá: Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa (FLIP) (2009), 67 pp.

"Las desmovilizaciones de los grupos paramilitares y la implementación de la Ley de Justicia y Paz, en medio de condiciones muy complejas, han puesto sobre la mesa – nuevamente – la pregunta sobre el papel que juegan los medios de comunicación en Colombia. Y en este punto es importante hacer u ... more

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Understanding Film and Video as Tools for Change: Applying Participatory Video and Video Advocacy in South Africa

Julia Cain

Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University, Thesis (2009), v, 240 pp.

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The South African Trade Book Industry. 2008 Book Sales Yearbook

Woking, Surrey; Cape Town: Nielsen Book Services UK;Nielsen Book Scan South Africa (2009), 155 pp.

"This is the third annual sales analysis issued by Nielsen Bookscan SA, the purpose of which is to obtain an overview of the trade sector of the South African book industry over the twelve months of 2008 compared to the twelve months of 2007, in order to identify the areas of growth during this peri ... more

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Opening Scholarship Project. Case Study 4: UCT Press

Eve Gray, Michelle Willmers

Cape Town: Centre of Educational Technology, University of Cape Town;Shuttleworth Foundation (2009), 20 pp.

"The University of Cape Town (UCT) Press was established in 1994 and is one of four university presses currently operating in South Africa. The modern-day university press presents an interesting mix of challenges and conflicting agendas, and the OpeningScholarship project chose UCT Press as a subje ... more

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Turning Rice Into Pilau: The Art of Video Narration in Tanzania

Matthias Krings

Intermédialités, issue 4 (2009), 32 pp.

"In Tanzania pirated video copies of foreign films are subject to a profound practice of remediation. Video narrators who either perform live simultaneous translations and commentaries on such films in video parlours, or mediatise their interpretations as VHS cassettes and DVDs with Kiswahili voice- ... more

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Doing Digital Media in Africa: Prospects, Promises and Problems

Francis Mdlongwa (ed.)

Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2009), 117 pp.

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Journalism Training in Sudan: A Move Towards Enhanced Cooperation

International Media Support (IMS) (2009), 23 pp.

"One of the major obstacles to the development of a professional media is the lack of qualified education and training and media training remains a neglected area in Sudan. Education and training in journalism and related areas provided by universities are not responding sufficiently to the needs of ... more

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La video dans le developpement: Filmer pour le changement rural

Rico Lie, Andreas Mandler

Wageningen; Rome; Rome: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA);FAO (2009), v, 60 pp.

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Mobile Phones: The New Talking Drums of Everyday Africa

Mirjam de Bruijn, Francis Nyamnjoh, Inge Brinkman (eds.)

Bamenda (CM); Leiden: Langaa;African Studies Centre (2009), vii, 173 pp.

"This book is about the many ways in which mobile phones are being appropriated by Africans and how they are transforming and are being transformed by society in Africa. A case study from Karthoum (Sudan) shows, how mobile phones are reshaping relationships in a Muslim society, where they enable wom ... more

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Media, Elections and Political Violence in Eastern Africa: Towards a Comparative Framework

Nicole Stremlau, Monroe E. Price

Oxford; London: Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford;Center for Global Communication Studies, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania;Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research (2009), 45 pp.

"The problem of post-election violence seems to be ever-more present as complexities of nation-building and democratic development arise. This report deals with some relevant questions. It is based on the outcome of discussions at a December 2008 workshop organized in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia [...] Our ... more

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The Role of the Media in the Upcoming Somaliland Elections: Lessons from Kenya

Nicole Stremlau, Matthew Blanchard, Yusuf Abdi Gabobe, Farhan Ali Ahmed

"This report explores issues of media policy during post-election violence. We examine the case of Kenya, where 1,133 people were killed after the 2007 elections, to distill lessons for Somaliland’s upcoming elections. There are indications the elections in Somaliland will be highly contentious an ... more

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Media and Elections in the SADC Region: Protocols and Policies

Libby Lloyd

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2009), 45 pp.

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Report on Evaluation of "Community Radio Listening Groups Project"

Khartoum: UNICEF;Nutro Health for Development (NHD) (2009), 298 pp.

"In 2002 the UNICEF in collaboration with the Ministry of Information and Communication ( represented by Sudan Radio & TV Corporation –SRTC) launched a pilot project of Community Radio Listening Groups (CRLGs), designed to reach population in hard to reach areas in the country with messages and de ... more

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Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation

Alexander Laban Hinton, Kevin Lewis O'Neill (eds.)

Durham: Duke University Press (2009), 349 pp.

"What happens to people and the societies in which they live after genocide? How are the devastating events remembered on the individual and collective levels, and how do these memories intersect and diverge as the rulers of postgenocidal states attempt to produce a monolithic "truth" about the past ... more

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