"The editors attempt to provide "comprehensive, accurate and up-to-date information, in both English and French, on libraries, publishers and the retail book trade, research institutions with publishing programs, book industry and literary associations, major periodicals and newspapers, government a
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s well as commercial printers, throughout Africa, South Africa excepted for the last name group." In all, 4,621 institutions and organizations are represented. Data varies according to the type of organization or institution and completeness and accuracy also vary because, the editors tell us, 45 percent of addresses failed to update their entries or retum the questionnaire. These cases are indicated with a dagger or asterisk. Even so, it provides a formidable amount of information. Librarians proved the best respondents; consequently data about libraries is more likely to be the most complete. Arrangement is alphabetical by country. Appendixes include a subject index to special libraries and to periodicals and magazines, and listings of book clubs, awards and principal dealers in African books in Europe and the U.S. Text is in English and French." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1127)
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"It would be a mistake to imagine that reporting from southern Africa is a special case. One of the points that must be made is that newsagency correspondents are expected to and expect to be able to report in many different types of social, political and economic situations. This was certainly a po
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int expressed to the author by the agency correspondents working in southern Africa. While clearly this is essential if the newsmen are to carry out their jobs, it is also fraught with problems. It means that the world is reduced to a unidimensionality which it does not have. Different situations demand different treatments. However, realization of this must also be accompanied by an awareness of the particular types of official control practised by the southern African regimes. This control impinges directly upon the newsmen stationed in southern Africa, in a manner that affects the types of output they are able to produce. As outsiders looking in upon the world of journalism, we are perfectly entitled to criticize the ways in which the agency newsmen operate in situations we find personally abhorrent. As outsiders looking in, however, we must not lose sight of the very severe constraints placed upon these newsmen by regimes determined to control the flow of news and information both to and from their countries." (Conclusion, page 144)
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"La SWAPO (Organisation du Peuple Sud-Ouest African) a vu supprimer ses publications par le Gouvernement Sud-Africain — La contribution des pays africains pour faciliter à la SWAPO son travail d'information au sein du peuple sud-ouest africain." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use
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of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1171, topic code 110.1)
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