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Radio Instruction to Strengthen Education (RISE) Tanzania. Final Report November 2006-May 2010

Dar es Salaam: Education Development Center; USAID (2010), iii, 49, 12 pp.
"The Radio Instruction to Strengthen Education (RISE) in Tanzania project exceeded its targets and deliverables in every aspect of the project: More primary and secondary beneficiaries were reached, more trainings were conducted, and more resources and equipment were distributed than estimated. Thes ... more
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Between Journalism ‘universals’ and Cultural Particulars: Challenges Facing the Development of a Journalism Programme in an East African Context

Terje S. Skjerdal
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 1, issue 1 (2009), pp. 23-34
"One of the main dilemmas facing journalism education across Africa is whether one can argue for a ‘universal’ set of journalistic standards while at the same time maintaining a culturally sensitive journalism practice. Underlying the dilemma is the question of whether there is a need to identif ... more
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Diary of a Participatory Advocacy Film Project: Transforming Communication Initiatives Into Living Campaigns

Emilie Flower, Brigid McConville
Development in Practice, volume 19, issue 7 (2009), pp. 933-937
"In August 2007, the Government of Tanzania committed to doubling the number of training places for skilled midwives following a five-year campaign by the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood in Tanzania (WRATZ), which culminated in the first television screening of a participatory film, ‘Pla ... more
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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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Contemporary Issues in South Africa: A Toolkit for Journalists

Tanya Farber
Open Society Foundation for South Africa (2009), 60 pp.
"In today’s climate in the media industry, reporters are expected to cover a broad range of issues. They no longer have the luxury of concentrating on a small piece of a larger puzzle, and at times, they may feel as if they need a better understanding of the background information before moving fo ... more
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A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis: Media Coverage of the Darfur Conflict in Sudanese and Non-Sudanese Media

Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2009), 54 pp.
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Change at Hand: Web 2.0 for Development

Holly Ashley, Jon Corbett, Ben Garside, Giacamo Rambaldi (eds.)
London; Wageningen: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED); Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2009), 136 pp.
"Web 2.0 for development (Web2forDev) is a way of employing web services to intentionally improve information-sharing and collaborative production of content for development. It is about how development actors can relate and connect to other stakeholders, produce and publish their own material, deci ... 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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Learning and Knowing in Indigenous Societies Today

Peter Bates, Moe Chiba, Sabine Kube, Douglas Nakashima (eds.)
Paris: UNESCO (2009), 127 pp.
"The book is organised into three sections. The first addresses the link between indigenous knowledge and indigenous language, and explores the opportunities this interconnection provides for understanding and countering declines in both. The second section examines how the loss of indigenous knowle ... more
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The Power of Communication: Changes and Challenges in African Media

Kristin Skare Orgeret, Helge Rønning (eds.)
Oslo: Oslo Academic Press (2009), 362 pp.
"This book examines how the media in different parts of Africa plays an important role in the continent's political and social processes of change. The perspective of the book is comparative. It contains overviews of the role of communication, as well as case studies, of the situation in individual ... 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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Südafrikas Medien - zwischen freier Wahlberichterstattung und politischer Beeinflussung

Frank Windeck
KAS Auslandsinformationen, issue 4 (2009), pp. 75-89
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How Hollywood Projects Foreign Policy

Sally-Ann Totman
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2009), xii, 226 pp.
"This book examines US foreign policy toward the so-called 'rogue states' and the products of the Hollywood film industry in relation to these states, which promises to make a significant contribution to our understanding of the 'soft power' that is popular culture." (Publisher description)
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La caricature et le dessin de presse en Afrique

Paris: L'Harmattan (2009), 239 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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Sowing the Seeds: A Study of Media Coverage of Agriculture and Women in the Agricultural Sector in Three African Countries: Mali, Uganda and Zambia

Washington, DC: International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) (2009), 27 pp.
This report documents the scant attention that agriculture and women agriculturalists have received from news media.
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Internationales Handbuch Medien

Hans-Bredow-Institut
Christiane Matzen; Anja Herzog (eds.)
Baden-Baden: Nomos, 28th ed. (2009), 1308 pp.
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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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Panos Southern Africa’s Communicating HIV and AIDS in Southern Africa Project, 2005–2008

Jolly Kamwanga, Richard Mutemwa
Stockholm: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2009), 29 pp.
"The PANOS radio listening clubs have proved to be an effective means of communicating not only HIV and AIDS issues but other development issues within communities. The female radio clubs proved more effective than the male radio clubs. Interviews revealed that communities with the radio listening c ... more
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Reporting Water in Southern Africa: A Media Guide to Managing Our Water Resources

Harare: Southern African Research and Documentation Centre (SARDC); Musokotwane Environment Resource Centre for Southern Africa (IMERCSA) (2009), 120 pp.
"Most of the current water problems in southern Africa arise from inadequate or improper management of water resources, rather than shortages. Thus it is essential to raise awareness of water availability and use, and of management approaches that are sustainable. A challenge for media practitioners ... more