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Africa: Foreign Media Representation & Image Abroad
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Narratives, Narrative Structures
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Development Aid Reporting
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Development Journalism & Media Representation of Development Issues
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Foreign News, International News
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Stereotypes in Media & Communication
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Youth, Adolescents
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Storytelling
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Conflict Reporting, Armed Conflict Reporting
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Creative & Cultural Industries
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TikTok
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Instagram
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Foreign Investments
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Climate Change Communication, Climate Journalism
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Water Resources Management, Water Access & Supply
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Ethics in Media & Communication
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COVID-19 Communication
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Foreign Countries: Reporting & Media Representation
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Business & Economics Journalism
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Election Reporting
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Youth Cultures, Youth Milieus, Youth Identities
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Youth: Media Representation & Reporting
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Global Media Index for Africa 2024
Africa No Filter; Africa Center (2024), 46 pp.
"The Global Media Index for Africa assesses and ranks online news stories of the 20 leading news providers that offer primary coverage of Africa for the world. It is also a tool that aims to provide much needed regular 'health checks' on how Africa is framed in the media. The outlets selected are th
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The cost of media stereotypes to Africa: The relationship between media, investment and economic development
Africa No Filter; africapractice (2024), 32 pp.
"Africa could be losing up to $4.2 billion annually in interest payments on its
loans primarily due to stereotypical narratives that dominate global media
coverage of the continent. The media’s portrayal of Africa has long been dominated by persistent stereotypes. This report explores the economic
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Who is Influencing Who? Unpacking Youth and Influence in Africa. A Summary of a Nine-Country Survey
Africa No Filter (2023), iv, 18 pp.
"Africa is a diverse and complex continent, consisting of 54 countries, 5 regions and about 2,000 languages. This report identifies what influences African youths' attitudes and decisions. It is based on a survey of 4,500 people, aged 18–35, in nine African countries: Egypt, Morocco, Ghana, Ivory
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Redefining Global Citizenship Through Young African Digital Narratives: African Digital Cosmopolitanism on Instagram and TikTok
Africa No Filter (2022), iii, 14 pp.
"The trending hashtags analysed in this study all appeared at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, when a range of Western media suggested that the African continent would be hit worst. However, as Western nations (such as the US and the UK) struggled under increased disease burden, content s
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The Business in Africa: Narrative Report
Africa No Filter; AKAS (2022), 56 pp.
"The report found seven significant frames to stories about business in Africa:
1 More negative coverage: International media are more likely to negatively frame issues that impact on business in Africa while African media are twice as likely to reference corruption in their coverage of business in
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How to Write About Africa in 8 Steps: An Ethical Storytelling Handbook
Key Guidance
Africa No Filter (2021), 31 pp.
"Storytelling is the most powerful way for donor and non-governmental organisations to convey their work because stories allow audiences to connect on both intellectual and emotional levels. However, much of the storytelling about development work in Africa is unethical and perpetuates harmful and s
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How African Media Covers Africa
Johannesburg: Africa No Filter (2021), 29 pp.
"One-third of all African stories in news outlets on the continent are sourced from foreign news services. As a result, stories about Africa continue to be told through the same persistent and negative stereotypes and frames of poverty, disease, conflict, poor leadership and corruption. To understan
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African Narratives: A Gloomy Picture, with Some Emerging Positive Trends. Literature Review of Academic Writing on African Narratives
Africa No Filter (2020), 12 pp.
"In 2018 the fictional country Wakanda from the film Black Panther was the fourth most mentioned African country on Twitter, after Egypt, South Africa and Kenya. The fact that Africa’s 4th most talked about country doesn’t exist tells us two things: pop culture is a powerful tool for narrative w
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"The literature on African youth narratives about Africa is sparse. Only one report in the literature review focussed on youth narratives, and it indicated that youth did not value their own stories, but relied on western tropes in storytelling. We came across nine recent reports based on attitudina
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