African broadcast cultures: radio in transition
Oxford:
James Currey Publishers
(2000), xvi, 256 pp., 8 illustr., abbrev. p.xiv-xvi, index
ISBN 0-85255-828-7
"Radio has played a pivotal role in situations of conflict, crisis, change and development on the African continent. Local radio stations are as important as international broadcasters being both the barometers and agents of change. This text examines African radio broadcast cultures." (Publisher)
"African broadcast cultures, Radio in transition is the result of a workshop that was held at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London on 12 and 13 June 1997." (Review in South African Theatre Journal, Vol. 16, No. 1)
Contents
1 African Broadcast Cultures / Richard Fardon and Graham Furniss, 1
I. SUB-SAHARAN SURVEYS
2 From Saucepan to Dish Radio and TV in Africa / Graham Mytton, 21
3 Prospects for Rural Radio in Africa Strategies to Relate Audience Research to the Participatory Production of Radio Programmes / Jean-Pierre Ilboudo, 42
4 National & International Broadcasters Policies & Practices / Ibrahima Sane, Roger Nouma & Elizabeth Ohene, 72
II. LOCAL RADIO, LOCAL RADIO CULTURE & THE CULTURE OF RADIOS
5 The Evolution of Radio Broadcasting in Burkina Faso: 'From Mother Radio to Local Radios' / Urbain Nombre, 83
6 Community Radio & Development: Issues and Examples from Francophone West Africa / Mary Myers, 90
7 Radio in Niger: Central Control versus Local Cultures / Christine Nimaga Ceesay, 102
8 New Local Radio Stations in African Languages & the Process of Political Transformation: The Case of Radio Rurale Locale Tanguieta in Northern Benin / Tilo Grätz, 110
9 Popular Culture in Advertising: Nigerian Hausa Radio / Mansur Abdulkadir, 128
10 Documenting Radio Culture as Lived Experience: Reception Studies & the Mobile Machine in Zambia / Debra Spitulnik, 144
III. RADIO, CONFLICT & POLITICAL TRANSITION
11 The Future of Community Radio in Africa: The Case of Southern Africa / Aida Opoku-Mensah, 165
12 The Growth of Independent Broadcasting in South Africa: Lessons for Africa? / Jeanette Minnie, 174
13 Is Radio Pluralism an Instrument of Political Change? Insights from Zambia / Jean-Pascal Daloz & Katherine Verrier-Frechette, 180
14 Broadcasting & Political Transition: Rwanda & Beyond / Richard Carver, 188
15 The Multiple Voices of Sudanese Airspace / Wendy James, 198
16 Local Radio Conflict Moderation: The Case of Sierra Leone / Paul Richards, 216
I. SUB-SAHARAN SURVEYS
2 From Saucepan to Dish Radio and TV in Africa / Graham Mytton, 21
3 Prospects for Rural Radio in Africa Strategies to Relate Audience Research to the Participatory Production of Radio Programmes / Jean-Pierre Ilboudo, 42
4 National & International Broadcasters Policies & Practices / Ibrahima Sane, Roger Nouma & Elizabeth Ohene, 72
II. LOCAL RADIO, LOCAL RADIO CULTURE & THE CULTURE OF RADIOS
5 The Evolution of Radio Broadcasting in Burkina Faso: 'From Mother Radio to Local Radios' / Urbain Nombre, 83
6 Community Radio & Development: Issues and Examples from Francophone West Africa / Mary Myers, 90
7 Radio in Niger: Central Control versus Local Cultures / Christine Nimaga Ceesay, 102
8 New Local Radio Stations in African Languages & the Process of Political Transformation: The Case of Radio Rurale Locale Tanguieta in Northern Benin / Tilo Grätz, 110
9 Popular Culture in Advertising: Nigerian Hausa Radio / Mansur Abdulkadir, 128
10 Documenting Radio Culture as Lived Experience: Reception Studies & the Mobile Machine in Zambia / Debra Spitulnik, 144
III. RADIO, CONFLICT & POLITICAL TRANSITION
11 The Future of Community Radio in Africa: The Case of Southern Africa / Aida Opoku-Mensah, 165
12 The Growth of Independent Broadcasting in South Africa: Lessons for Africa? / Jeanette Minnie, 174
13 Is Radio Pluralism an Instrument of Political Change? Insights from Zambia / Jean-Pascal Daloz & Katherine Verrier-Frechette, 180
14 Broadcasting & Political Transition: Rwanda & Beyond / Richard Carver, 188
15 The Multiple Voices of Sudanese Airspace / Wendy James, 198
16 Local Radio Conflict Moderation: The Case of Sierra Leone / Paul Richards, 216
