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Collective memory: visual perspectives from Cameroon, Germany, Ghana, Kenya & South Africa

Ebenezar Acquah; Paul-Henri Souvenir Assako Assako; Patrique deGraft-Yankson; Mary Clare Kidenda; Nicola Pauli; Avi Sooful (eds.)

München: kopaed; Exploring Visual Cultures project (2022), 160 pp.

ISBN 978-3-96848-068-8

"The exhibition focuses on how young people envision their identities in their respective countries: what mental images do they collectively have about their life experiences. Thus, this project seeks to present collective memories from different parts of the world in an exhibition that will promote... more

Politiques éditoriales dans la mission (XIXe-XXIe siécle)

Annie Lenoble-Bart; Bernadette Truchet; Jean-François Zorn; Didier Galibert (eds.)

Paris: Karthala (2022), 405 pp., illustr., index

ISBN 978-2-8111-2427-4

"Les Missions à l’époque contemporaine ont continué de se propager grâce à destechniques éditoriales que les progrès des moyens de communication leur ont procurées. En tout premier lieu, l’imprimerie a permis l’édition de la Bible dans de multiples langues et la multiplication de supp... more

Visual cultures of Africa

Mary Clare Kidenda; Lize Kriel; Ernst Wagner (eds.)

Münster; New York: Waxmann (2022), 255 pp., illustr.

ISBN 978-3-8309-4523-9 (print); 978-3-8309-9523-4 (ebook) CC BY-NC-SA

"This book Visual Cultures of Africa tells stories of the past, present, and future and how intricately linked cultures and identities are. The book explores the complex histories and discusses how people have used images, objects, and artefacts to describe what is going on in society and give expre... more

Widerstand: drei Generationen antikolonialer Protest in Kamerun

Resistance: trois générations de lutte anticoloniale au Cameroun

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb); Initiative Perspektivwechsel (2021), 145, 145 pp., many illustr.

ISBN 978-3-8389-7205-3

"In den Comicgeschichten werden drei Generationen antikolonialen Widerstands in Kamerun skizziert. Das zentralafrikanische Land war 35 Jahre lang deutsche Kolonie. Die Geschichten des kamerunischen Königs Duala Manga Bell, der Anlu-Rebellion der Kom-Frauen sowie des Aktivisten André Blaise Essama ... more

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Situational analysis of digital security in Cameroon

Internews (2021), 14 pp.

"Based on the needs assessment, a high proportion of women in Cameroon face online violence and are increasingly concerned about their safety in digital spaces. However, many of these respondents are unaware of any legal protections offered to them. Additionally, they believe that they lack the appr... more

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Fake news is bad news: hoaxes, half-truths and the nature of today's journalism

Ján Visnovský; Jana Radosinská (eds.)

Intech Open (2021), 260 pp.

ISBN 978-1-83962-422-3 (online); 978-1-83962-421-6 (print); 978-1-83962-423-0 (pdf)

"The publication is focused on the ways fake news, disinformation, misinformation and hateful statements are spread across society, predominantly within the online environment. Its main ambition is to offer an interdisciplinary body of scholarly knowledge on fake news, disinformation and propaganda ... more

Afrika

Marco Moerschbacher (ed.)

Paderborn et al.: Schöningh (2021), x, 615 pp.

ISBN 978-3-506-77701-0 (hbk); 9783657777013 (online)

"Das Werk bietet, nach Ländern bzw. Regionen aufgeschlüsselt, einen kompakten und aktuellen Überblick über geschichtliche Herkunft, weitere Entwicklungen und aktuelle Herausforderungen der afrikanischen Kirche aus katholischer Sicht. Dabei liegt ein Akzent auf den Beziehungen der Ortskirche zu a... more

Digital inclusion: an international comparative analysis

Massimo Ragnedda; Bruce Mutsvairo; Gerard Goggin (eds.)

Lanham: Lexington Books (2018), xx, 223 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-4985-6212-6

"The volume examines the risks and opportunities of a digital society characterized by the increasing importance of knowledge and by the incessant rise and pervasiveness of information and communication technologies (ICTs). At a global level, the pivotal role of ICTs has made it necessary to rethink... more

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If you want to understand how media work, produce your own media! A Cameroonian community radio as conveyer of critical media competences

Alexander Vojvoda

In: Pathways to peace

Christiane Kayser; Flaubert Djateng (eds.)

Brot für die Welt; Civil Peace Service (CPS) (2017), pp. 30-42

"... The CBS Radio 95.3 MHz in Buea with the support of the CPS Programme in Cameroon, developed a training curriculum for voluntary programme producers to enable local communities and individuals to produce new radio programmes and guide them in their learning-bydoing process and practical acquisit... more

Langues et médias en Afrique noire francophone: analyse (socio) linguistique et didactique

Louis Martin Onguéné Essono

Paris: Connaissances et savoirs (2017), 347 pp., bibliogr. p.319-345

ISBN 978-2-7539-0434-7

Thirty rising media markets 2016

Anne Austin; Jonathan Barnard; Nicola Hutcheon

London: ZenithOptimedia (2016), 51 pp.

"The markets we do include are a very diverse bunch, from the very closed and politically tightly controlled such as Laos; through a large number of nations on the African continent which have seen a sudden improvement in digital infrastructure thanks to the landing of several new submarine intercon... more

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Mobilities, ICTs and marginality in Africa: comparative perspectives

Francis Nyamnjoh; Ingrid Brudvig (eds.)

Cape Town: HSRC Press (2016), ix, 244 pp.

ISBN 978-0-7969-2516-9 (pbk); 978-0-7969-2531-2 (pdf)

"The book aims to situate the cultural, social and, in some cases, transnational context of ICT appropriation and virtual connectivity so as to reposition Africans from various countries and contexts as active agents of social change. The intricacies of local ICT use and the dynamics of mobility in ... more

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Racism, ethnicity and the media in Africa: mediating conflict in the twenty-first century

Winston Mano (ed.)

London: Tauris (2015), xviii,347 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-78076-706-2 (hbk); 978-1-86064-194-7 (pbk); 978-0-75561-903-0 (online)

"In today's Africa racism and ethnicity have been implicated in serious conflicts - from Egypt to Mali to South Africa - that have cost lives and undermined efforts to achieve national cohesion and meaningful development. Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa sets about rethinking the role of me... more

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Women and ICT in Africa and the Middle East: changing selves, changing societies

Ineke Buskens; Anne Webb (eds.)

London: Zed Books (2014), 338 pp.

ISBN 978-1-7836-0042-7 (pbk); 978-1-3502-2402-5 (online)

Mass media and democratisation in Cameroon in the early 1990s

Francis B. Nyamnjoh

Bamenda: Langaa (2011), xiv, 193 pp., bibliogr. p.187-193

ISBN 978-9956-717-81-1 (online); 978-9956-717-18-7 (print)

"In the on-going democratic debate, the Cameroonian media have not played the role of objective mediators. A one-party logic, of which government, opposition and the public are guilty, has prevented Cameroonian multipartyism from addressing the major issue: that of how best to bring about real parti... more

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Racism, ethnicity and the media in Africa: reflections inspired by studies of xenophobia in Cameroon and South Africa

Africa spectrum, volume 45, issue 1 (2010), pp. 57-93

ISSN 1868-6869 (online) CC BY-ND

"This paper demonstrates the extent to which the media and belonging in Africa are torn between competing and often conflicting claims of bounded and flexible ideas of culture and identity. It draws on studies of xenophobia in Cameroon and South Africa, inspired by the resilience of the politicizati... more

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L’état de la liberté de la presse en Afrique centrale. Rapport annuel 2009

Donat M'Baya Tshimanga (ed.)

Kinshasa: Journaliste en Danger (JED) (2009), 110 pp.

Mobile phones: the new talking drums of everyday Africa

Mirjam de Bruijn; Francis Nyamnjoh; Inge Brinkman (eds.)

Bamenda (CM); Leiden: Langaa; African Studies Centre (2009), vii, 173 pp., illustr., bibliogr.

"This book is about the many ways in which mobile phones are being appropriated by Africans and how they are transforming and are being transformed by society in Africa. A case study from Karthoum (Sudan) shows, how mobile phones are reshaping relationships in a Muslim society, where they enable wom... more

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Textbooks and school library provision in secondary education in sub-Saharan Africa

Washington, DC: Africa Region Human Development Department Secondary Education in Africa (SEIA) World Bank (2008), xxxii, 98 pp., 12 tables, abbrev. p.xi-xv, bibliogr. p.97-98

ISBN 978-0-8213-7344-6 (print); 978-0-8213-7345-3 (ebook) CC BY

"This World Bank study discusses secondary textbook and school library availability in Africa, its cost and financing, and its distribution and publishing. The study’s objective was to analyze the issues and provide some options and strategies for improvement. Reforms are urgently required in the ... more

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The media and conflicts in Central Africa

Marie-Soleil Frère

Boulder, Colo.; London: Rienner; Panos Paris (2007), vii, 287 pp., abbrev. p.253-262, bibliogr. p.263-267, index

ISBN 978-1-58826-489-3; 978-1-58826-465-7

"This in-depth investigation of the role that local news media play in Central African conflicts combines theoretical analysis with case studies from nine African countries: Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republi... more