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Collective trauma

D+C: development and cooperation, volume 0, issue 1 (2023), pp. 21-31

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Memory and erasure: Gukurahundi and the culture of violence in Zimbabwe

Mandlenkosi Mpofu; Percy F. Makombe (eds.)

Bulawayo; Harare: Centre for Innovation and Technology (CITE); Weaver Press (2022), xxxi, 153 pp., bibliogr. p.137-153

ISBN 978-1-77922-419-4 (pbk); 978-1-77922-421-7 (pdf)

"Memory and Erasure brings together young and established Zimbabwean scholars and activists who explore with fresh eyes the failure to overcome the terrible legacies of this period. At its heart is recognition that justice cannot be achieved while Gukurahundi’s perpetrators remain in power and sti... more

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COVID-19 and the media in Sub-Saharan Africa: media viability, framing and health communication

Carol Azungi Dralega Napakol, Angella

Bingley: Emerald Publishing (2022), xix, 257 pp., illustr., bibliogr. p.215-248, index

ISBN 978-1-80382-272-3 (print) / 978-1-80382-271-6 (online)

"The volume helps us deconstruct COVID-19 discourses on crisis communication and media developments focusing on three areas: Media viability, Framing and Health crisis communication. The chapters unpack issues on marginalisation, gender, media sustainability, credibility, priming, trust, sources, be... more

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The linguistic dimensions of Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe

Maseko; Busani; Dion Nkomo

In: Memory and erasure: Gukurahundi and the culture of violence in Zimbabwe

Mandlenkosi Mpofu; Percy F. Makombe (eds.)

Harare: Weaver Press (2022), pp. 81-95

"This chapter explored the linguistic dimensions of Gukurahundi to show the centrality of language before, during and after the genocide. We drew on online testimonies from survivors and statements from government officials as well as visible language planning and language practices in the post-Guku... more

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The global handbook of media accountability

Susanne Fengler; Tobias Eberwein; Matthias Karmasin (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2022), xviii, 614 pp., illustr., index

ISBN 978-0-367-34628-7 (hbk); 978-1-03-215615-6 (pbk); 978-0-429-32694-3 (pdf)

"The Global Handbook of Media Accountability brings together leading scholars to 'de-Westernize' the academic debate on media accountability and discuss different models of media self-regulation and newsroom transparency around the globe. With examination of the status quo of media accountability in... more

Indigenous language for development communication in the Global South

Abiodun Salawu; Tshepang Bright Molale; Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed; Mohammad Sahid Ullah (eds.)

Lexington Books (2022), 310 pp.

ISBN 978-1-666912029

"This edited collection brings together voices from the margins in underrepresented regions of the Global South, within the context of scholarship focusing on indigenous languages and development communication. Contributors bring together research from often-overlooked parts of the world to engage i... more

The unfreedom monitor: Zimbabwe country report

Kudzai Chimhangwa

Advox (2022), 28 pp.

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"The government of Zimbabwe and the ruling ZANU PF party are bent on ensuring that the status quo is preserved at all costs. As evidenced by findings in the Civic Media Observatory, the digital sphere has been identified as a threat to the country’s national security, insofar as deposing the curre... more

The state of press freedom in Southern Africa 2019-2020

Catherine Anite; Nashilongo Gervasius-Nakale; Izak Minnaar (eds.)

Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2021), 79 pp.

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Routledge handbook of African media and communication studies

Winston Mano; Viola C. Milton (eds.)

Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge (2021), xiv, 286 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-351-27320-6 (ebook); 978-1-138-57477-9 (print)

"The book goes beyond critiques of the marginality of African approaches in media and communication studies to offer scholars the theoretical and empirical toolkit needed to start building critical corpora of African scholarship and theory that places the everyday worlds, needs and uses of Africans ... 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

Gukurahundi: das laute Schweigen

(2021), pp. 5-15

Wie ich lernte, die Welt im Radio zu erklären: von Radio Bremen zur Übersee-Brücke

Klaus Jürgen Schmidt

Bremen: Kellner Verlag (2020), 359 pp.

ISBN 978-3-95651-265-0

"Als die Tonstudios, 1963, noch voll verkabelt sind, beginnt Klaus Jürgen Schmidt, sich durch die Strukturen der Öffentlich-Rechtlichen zu schlagen. Die biografische Erzählung ist ein Einblick hinter die Kulissen von Radio Bremen, aber auch in das Leben des Autors, der immer wieder für sein Idea... more

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Social media and politics in Africa: democracy, censorship and security

Maggie Dwyer; Thomas Molony (eds.)

London: Zed Books (2019), xiii, 299 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-78699-497-4

"Drawing on over a dozen new empirical case studies – from Kenya to Somalia, South Africa to Tanzania – this collection explores how rapidly growing social media use is reshaping political engagement in Africa. But while social media has often been hailed as a liberating tool, the book demonstra... more

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Mapping the digital divide in Africa: a mediated analysis

Bruce Mutsvairo; Massimo Ragnedda (eds.)

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2019), 278 pp., 5 figures, 5 tables, index

ISBN 978-94-6298-685-5

"This is a timely and much-needed collection that fills an important gap in the literature. It offers excellent conceptual tools and a selection of case studies that provide a useful map of the digital divide across the African continent and between Africa and the rest of the world. I especially app... more

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Reporting human rights, conflicts, and peacebuilding: critical and global perspectives

Ibrahim Seaga Shaw; Senthan Selvarajah

Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), xxi, 280 pp.

ISBN 978-3-030-10718-5 (hbk); 978-3-030-10719-2 (ebook)

"This book focuses on the reporting of human rights in broadly defined times of conflict. It brings together scholarly and professional perspectives on the role of the media in constructing human rights and peacebuilding options in conflict and post-conflict environments, drawing on case studies fro... more

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Entrepreneurial journalism in Africa: opportunities, challenges and risks for media in the digital age. Learnings from a conference held by KAS Media Africa in Accra, Ghana, 16-19 September 2018

Francis Mdlongwa (ed.)

Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2019), 64 pp.

ISBN 978-0-9870243-5-0

" ... there seems to be an understanding that the media is important and that society needs the media. In October 2018, KAS Media Africa, therefore, gathered the CEOs of media houses, publishers and editors-in-chief from 16 different countries, both from Anglophone and Frenchspeaking Africa, in Accr... more

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Online supplement to working paper 2018.1. Challenging truth and trust: a global inventory of organized social media manipulation

Samantha Bradshaw; Philip N. Howard

Oxford: Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford; Computational Propaganda Research Project (2018), 81 pp.

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"These are the background case notes complied for MEMO 2018.1: Challenging Truth and Trust: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation. For details on the methods behind this content analysis please see the methodology section of the report. This document contains data from over 500 s... more

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Perspectives on political communication in Africa

Bruce Mutsvairo; Beschara Karam (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xxiii, 272 pp., 12 illustr., index

ISBN 978-3-319-62057-2 (ebook); 978-3-319-62056-5 (print)

"Focusing on sub-Saharan Africa and occasionally drawing comparisons with other regions of the world, this book critically addresses the development of the field focusing on the current opportunities and challenges within the African context. By using a wide variety of case studies that include Moza... more

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Zimbabwe’s state-controlled public media and the mediation of the 1980s genocide 30 years on

Shepherd Mpofu

Journal of African media studies, volume 8, issue 2 (2016), pp. 145-165

"Since the end of genocide in 1987 Zimbabwe has remained a zone of ‘conflicts’, and the enduring debates surrounding this genocide, especially in public-owned but state-Controlled media, call for critical attention. Three years after independence, in 1980, Zimbabwe was plunged into a genocide na... 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