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African Media Development Initiative: Nigeria. Research findings and conclusions

Akeem M. Adeyanju; Jenkeri Zakari Okwori

London: BBC World Service Trust (2006), 77 pp.

ISBN 1-906086-09-5

"Nine of the 15 interviewees said the most important change in the media sector in the last five years has been the mix of deregulation/liberalisation/privatisation. Four interviewees said the newly democratic environment has been the key change. All interviewees agreed that media development in the... more

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African Media Development Initiative: research summary report

Gerry Power (dir.)

London: BBC World Service Trust (2006), 137 pp., abbrev. p.iv-vii, bibliogr. p.111-116, tables

ISBN 1-906086-17-6

"This research initiative assessed the key media changes and developments in seventeen African countries over the past five years and aimed at recommending intervention strategies for strengthening an independent, professional media sector. The summary report presents the main findings regarding med... more

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Radio drama for development: ARDA and the Rainbow City experience

Ayegba Adgebe Martins

Journal of African cultural studies, volume 16, issue 1 (2003), pp. 95-105

"While radio drama cannot be considered to be a new practice in Nigeria, the systematic ‘hybridization’ of drama with other analytical tools of development is a more recent practice. The radio drama experience of the African Radio Drama Association (ARDA) encompasses theatre, dialogue and social... more

Development communication in action: building understanding and creating participation

Andrew A. Moemeka

Oxford: University Press of America (2000), 325 pp., tables, index, bibliogr. p.285-313

"Addressing the use of communication (interpersonal, folk, traditional, group, organizational, and mass media) in the development process, this book discusses some of the conceptual and theoretical basis for integrating communication effectively into development plans and execution. It also examines... more

African broadcast cultures: radio in transition

Richard Fardon; Graham Furniss (eds.)

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)

Public libraries in Africa: a report and annotated bibliography

Aissa Isaak (comp.)

Oxford: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) (2000), vi, 199 pp.

ISBN 1-902928-00-8

"The synthesis of literature quoted in the bibliography and the country reports portrays the public library movement in Africa as being very weak, with numerous problems regarding financial constraints, lack of human resources, outdated materials and poor use. The only sector of the African populati... more

Buchlandschaften: das BuchMarktBuch 2

Johannes Seymann Gerlinde Hinterhölzl

Wien: Buchkultur Verlagsgesellschaft (1998), 197 pp.

ISBN 3-901052-36-4

Mass media in sub-Saharan Africa

Louise M. Bourgault

Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana University Press (1995), 294 pp., bibliogr. p.270-287, index

ISBN 0-253-31250-7; 0-253-20938-2

"Bourgault investigates three principal influences: the pre-colonial legacy of the oral tradition, the presence of an alienated managerial class, and the domination of African nations by systems based on political patronage. The first two chapters provide the theoretical framework. Subsequent chapte... more