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Perpetrators in Documentaries on Genocide

Julian Koch
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2026), 268 pp.
"Perpetrators in Documentaries on Genocide is a wide-ranging comparative study that analyses how numerous genocides and their perpetrators have been presented in documentary film. Spanning seven 20th-century genocides across three continents and combining interviews with filmmakers, distant reading, ... more
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Decolonising Approaches to Users and Audiences in the Global South: Context, Theory and Method

Tarik Sabry, Winston Mano, Andrea Medrado (eds.)
London: Routledge (2026), xvii, 334 pp.
"Including original essays and contemporary case studies spanning Africa, Middle East, Latin America, and Asia, this book provides a nuanced double critique of both local and West‑centric approaches, pushing back against historically extractive audience research logics that have marginalised globa ... more
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Global Screen Worlds: Conversations across Cinema Cultures

Lindiwe Dovey, Kate Taylor-Jones, Georgia Thomas-Parr (eds.)
New York et al.: Bloomsbury Academic (2026), xx, 348 pp.
"Global Screen Worlds brings together scholars from around the world to collaborate on comparative studies of specific African and Asian cinemas and audiovisual narrative media. This open access collection advances the concept of "screen worlds" rather than "world cinema" to acknowledge and recko ... more
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Regulating New Media in Africa: Politics, Law and Governance

Vincent Obia, Sulayman Bah, Yemisi Akinbobola, Oliver Carter (eds.)
Intellect (2026), 242 pp.
"A collection of research on digital media regulatory interventions across Africa, an area that has largely been overlooked in the literature. It considers a range of perspectives from scholars within and outside Africa on the subject, providing a compendium on digital media regulation on the contin ... more
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Global South Creator Cultures

Tugce Bidav, Smith Mehta (eds.)
New Delhi: Routledge India (2026), x, 196 pp.
"Global South Creator Cultures situates creator labour within the geographic specificities of nation-states and examines the working conditions of social media creators and the geographical challenges of their work, offering a four-part conceptual framework for studying creator cultures. Rather than ... more
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Oral Histories of Genocide in Bosnia, Indonesia, and Rwanda: Symbolic Violence and Social Death

Erin Jessee, Annie Pohlman
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2026), 408 pp.
"Grounded in extensive oral historical, archival, and ethnographic research in the aftermaths of the Bosnian (1992-95), Indonesian (1965-66), and Rwandan (1994) genocides, this book investigates the symbolic meanings associated with spectacular forms of torture, murder, and mutilation that perpetrat ... more
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Climate Change Communication in Africa

Tendai Chari, Allen Munoriyarwa (eds.)
Oxford: Routledge (2026), xxv, 328 pp.
"From legacy media’s framing of climate narratives to the mobilising potential of digital media, the volume examines the multi-faceted ways in which climate change is mediated through different communication channels and how different media can be harnessed to amplify African voices on climate cha ... more
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Community Media, Sustainability and Crisis Lessons from Covid and Beyond

Andrew Ó Baoill, Salvatore Scifo (eds.)
Bloomsbury Academic (2026), 214 pp.
"This original collection draws on a truly global set of perspectives, with authors from Asia, Europe, Africa, and both North and South America, who explore a range of ideological, political, economic, and cultural factors that shape how community media projects respond to crises. Contributors analy ... more
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Handbook of Global Oral History
Deep Insights

Mark Cave, Selma Leydesdorff (eds.)
Leiden: Brill (2026), x, 699 pp.
"The Handbook of Global Oral History inspires the reader to be more open in their conception of what oral history is and how it is applied within a variety of disciplines to unlock meaning in human experience. The book brings together scholars from around the world in the areas ranging from memory s ... more
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Le Congo numérique en construction: Plaidoyer pour une structuration cohérente des infrastructures de connectivité

Max Bouhoyi
Brazzaville: L'Harmattan Brazzaville (2025), 138 pp.
"Dans cet ouvrage ambitieux, Max Bouhoyi dresse un état des lieux rigoureux des infrastructures numériques du Congo, en s'intéressant aux deux piliers de la connectivité : le segment spatial (satellites) et le segment maritime (câbles sous-marins et fibre optique). À travers une approche à la ... more
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Parvenir à un développement numérique de la Guinée à l’horizon 2030: Stratégies - actions

Mamadi Kaba
Paris: L'Harmattan (2025), 163 pp.
"Ce livre est à la fois un diagnostic des politiques publiques antérieures du secteur de l’économie numérique du pays et un conteneur de solutions inductrices de changements axés sur des réformes structurelles pouvant permettre au pays de réussir sa transformation numérique. Cet ouvrage es ... more
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Ruanda 1994 bis heute: Vom Vorhof der Hölle zum Modell für Afrika - Wahrheit und Schein in Ruanda

Gerd Hankel
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2025), 170 pp.
"1994 kam es in Ruanda zu einem Völkermord, bei dem radikale Angehörige der Bevölkerungsgruppe der Hutus innerhalb von drei Monaten Hundertausende Menschen aus der Tutsi-Minderheit wie auch viele gemäßigte Hutus umbrachten. Gut 30 Jahre später gilt Ruanda vor allem in Europa und den USA als Vo ... more
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Camera in Times of Crisis: Focus on Africa

Kehinde Christopher Adewumi, Folasayo Enoch Olalere, Gambo Giles Duniya (eds.)
Bingley (UK): Emerald Publishing (2025), 208 pp.
"The presence of cameras, at the forefront of crises, either in the hands of journalists, bystanders or passers-by and sometimes even parties to the crises, has inspired multiple visual notations, commentaries and perspectives. Thus, efforts and resources are channelled towards documenting crises, t ... more
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Media Capture in Africa and Latin America: Power and Resistance

Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara, Bethia Pearson (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), xliii, 388 pp.
"How can current debates on ‘media capture’ be understood within the contexts of Africa and Latin America? This edited collection provides a nuanced exploration of media capture—a critical yet contested concept that examines and illuminates how media can become skewed in favour of power—whil ... more
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Navigating Trauma in African Journalism, Volume 2

Chikezie E. Uzuegbunam, Kealeboga Aiseng (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), xxiii, 262 pp.
"This second volume focuses on primary trauma experienced by journalists, with a particular focus on the gendered dimensions, as shared by female journalists and researchers. By focusing on female journalists’ firsthand encounters, the book explores the complex psychological, emotional, and profes ... more
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The Sustainability Imperative in Media Development: A Critical Analysis of a Self-Serving Myth

Michel Leroy
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), xxiv, 396 pp.
"This book critically examines how the media assistance and broader "development" sectors have appropriated the catch-all concept of sustainability, originally rooted in economic and environmental fields, to suit their agendas. Analysing 289 project evaluations conducted globally between 1999 and 20 ... more
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L' économie numérique au Tchad: état des lieux, opportunités et défis

Michel Boukar
Paris: L'Harmattan (2025), 149 pp.
"L’originalité de ce livre est d’aborder l’écosystème africain du numérique dans sa réalité complexe. Le cas spécifique du Tchad met en lumière tous les ressorts de l’inscription du numérique dans ce pays sahélien, pour valoriser le potentiel et porter les défis face aux contraint ... more
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Why do people spread fake news? Modelling the factors that influence social media users’ fake news sharing behaviour

Yan An, Yinan Huang, Ndonima Uhwe Danjuma, Oberiri Destiny Apuke, Elif Asude Tunca
Information Development, volume 41, issue 1 (2025), pp. 48-60
"This study modelled the factors that influence fake news spreading behaviour among social media users. To gather our data, we used an online survey to sample 385 social media users in Nigeria, using a chain referral approach. Smart PLS structural equation modelling was used to analyse the data (SEM ... more
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The risks and resilience in reporting violent extremism

Abdullahi Tasiu Abubakar
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 17, issue 2 (2025), pp. 131-147
"This article examines the lived experiences of conflict reporters to unpick the pitfalls and perseverance in journalism practice in dangerous places. It uses the case of covering the Boko Haram conflict to unpack the risks journalists encounter in reporting on violent extremism. Drawing on individu ... more
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Télévision et santé: Conditions de production des émissions télévisées de santé à Kinshasa

Mireille Lusiense Zena
Paris: L'Harmattan (2025), 138 pp.
"La production d’émissions de santé publique à la télévision à Kinshasa contribue à la sensibilisation, la diffusion et l’éducation de la population sur des thématiques et des informations sanitaires : les maladies transmissibles, la santé maternelle et infantile… Cependant, pour lâ ... more