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The unfreedom monitor: Tanzania country report

Advox (2022), 22 pp.

CC BY

"Tanzania has exercised authority on digital avenues in three main vital ways:• Surveillance: Data governance in Tanzania has been one area that has had fewer restrictions as there are still laws that adequately speak to things such as data protection and privacy. However, laws such as the Cyb... 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

Digitalisation and civic space: chances and challenges

Kai Schächtele; Ingo Dachwitz; Felix Zimmermann; Chris Köver; Christine Meissler; Martina Hahn; Sven Hilbig

Berlin: Brot für die Welt (2022), 58 pp.

"Multifaceted, uncensored, promoting democracy - that is the internet, many people had long hoped. But from today's perspective, this is not true - or only partially. Because the big digital platforms and the world wide web are both: media of freedom and control. In many places, they support civil s... more

Atlas der Zivilgesellschaft. Freiheitsrechte unter Druck: Schwerpunkt Digitalisierung

Kai Schächtele; Ingo Dachwitz; Felix Zimmermann; Chris Köver; Christine Meissler; Martina Hahn; Sven Hilbig

München; Berlin: oekom Verlag; Brot für die Welt (2022), 86 pp.

ISBN 978-3-96238-379-4

Other Editions: shortened version also published in English

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Language & coloniality: non-dominant languages in the digital landscape

Meital Kupfer; Jason Muyumba

Kampala: Pollicy; Internet Society Foundation (2022), 33 pp., bibliogr. p.26-33

"This white paper seeks to unpack the use of Indigenous or non-majority language in the existing digital landscape. This ties into ideas about digital colonialism (Kwett, 2022), wherein hegemonic, or dominant, languages are threatening and jeopardising the ability for local language speakers to expr... more

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Communications on climate change and biodiversity loss with local populations: exploring best-practices and postcolonial moments in eight case studies from across the globe

Dawud Ansari et al.

Berlin: DIW Berlin (2021), 51 pp., illustr., bibliogr., p.44-51

"... in this article, we present the results of a collective self-assessment exercise for a panel of eight case studies (covering four continents) [Amazon rainforest, Brazil; Colombia; India; Bangaldesh; Egypt; Lake Manyara Basin, Tanzania; Baltic Sea, Germany; Isles of Scilly, UK] ] of communicatio... 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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Media culture in nomadic communities

Allison Hahn

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2021), 222 pp., bibliogr. index

ISBN 978-90-485-5030-2 (ebk); 978-9463723022 (hbk)

"Media Culture in Nomadic Communities examines the ways that new technologies and ICT infrastructures have changed the communicative norms and patterns that regulate mobile and nomadic communities' engagement in local and international deliberative decision making. Each chapter examines a unique com... more

Online durch die Pandemie: Wie sich Glauben und Leben verändern

Evangelisches Missionswerk in Deutschland (EMW)

Hamburg: Missionshilfe Verlag (2021), 228 pp.

ISBN 978-3-946426-28-8

"Mit Covid-19 hat sich eine todbringende Pandemie erstmals global verbreitet, mit weitreichenden Folgen auf allen Ebenen, auch für Mobilität und Kommunikation in Kirche, Mission und weltweiter Ökumene. Partnerschaftsreisen oder Auslandsjahre für junge Freiwillige sind ausgefallen, stattdessen si... 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

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Communication for development: an evaluation framework in action

Jessica Noske-Turner (ed.)

Rugby: Practical Action Publishing (2020), xiii, 124 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-85339-997-8 (pbk); 978-1-78044-996-8 (pdf) CC BY-NC-ND

"This book presents five cases that reflect on the experiences of using practices consistent with the 'Evaluating C4D framework' [published by June Lennie and Jo Tacchi in 2013]. Case studies are important to help move from a set of ideal principles to an understanding of how the framework may be op... more

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Creating evidence-based youth mental health policy in Sub-Saharan Africa: a description of the integrated approach to addressing the issue of youth depression in Malawi and Tanzania

Stanley Kutcher; Kevin Perkins; Heather Gilberds; Michael Udedi; Omary Ubuguyu; Tasiana Njau; Rex Chapota; Mina Hashish

frontiers in psychiatry, volume 10, issue 542 (2019), 8 pp.

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"Addressing depression in young people is a health-care policy need in sub-Saharan Africa. There exists poor mental health literacy, high levels of stigma, and weak capacity at the community level to address this health-care need. These challenges are significant barriers to accessing mental health ...care for depression, soon to be the largest single contributor to the global burden of disease. We here describe an innovative approach that addresses these issues simultaneously while concurrently strengthening key mental health components in existing education and health-care systems as successfully applied in Malawi and replicated in Tanzania. Improving the pathway to care for young people with depression requires the following: improving mental health literacy (MHL) of communities, youth, and teachers; enhancing case identification and linking schools to community health clinics; improving the capacity of community health-care providers to identify, diagnose, and effectively treat depression in youth. Funded by Grand Challenges Canada, we developed and applied a program called “An Integrated Approach to Addressing the Challenge of Depression Among the Youth in Malawi and Tanzania” (IACD). This was an example of, a horizontally integrated pathway to care model designed to be applied in low-resource settings. The model is designed to 1) improve awareness/knowledge of mental health and mental disorders (especially depression) in communities; 2) enhance mental health literacy among youth and teachers within schools; 3) enhance capacity for teachers to identify students with possible depression; 4) create linkages between schools and community health clinics for improved access to mental health care for youth identified with possible depression; and 5) enhance the capacity of community-based health-care providers to identify, diagnose, and effectively treat youth with depression. With the use of interactive, youth-informed weekly radio programs, mental health curriculum training for teachers and peer educators in secondary schools, and a clinical competency training program for community-based health workers, the innovation created a “hub and spoke” model for improving mental health care for young people. Positive results obtained in Malawi and replicated in Tanzania suggest that this approach may provide an effective and potentially sustainable framework for enhancing youth mental health care, thus providing a policy ready framework that can be considered for application in sub-Saharan Africa." (Abstract) 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

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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The new age of radio: how ICTs are changing rural radio in Africa

Bartholomew Sullivan

Ottawa: Farm Radio International (2011), 138 pp., abbrev. p.4

CC BY-NC-ND

"Low cost, modern information and communication technologies (ICTs), including mobile phones, multifunction MP3 recorders, and interactive voice response (IVR) can dramatically increase the capacity of rural radio to help farmers improve food security in Sub-Saharan Africa. Weekly SMS alerts sent to... more

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Tanzania talks climate: the public understanding of climate change

Ed Pauker; Mercy Kimaro; Jimmy Innes

London: BBC World Service Trust; British Council (2010), 27 pp.

CC BY-NC-ND

"From August to October 2009, the BBC World Service Trust’s Research and Learning group, on behalf of the British Council, conducted research in Tanzania to gauge public understanding of climate change. The research consisted of 12 focus-group discussions with Tanzanian citizens, as well as 17 in-... more

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Theatre in/for development in Tanzania: a neoliberal nightmare

Vicensia Shule

In: Trends in twenty-first-century African theatre and performance

Kene Igweonu (ed.)

Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi (2010), pp. 191-215

"This chapter explores the relationship between theatre and neoliberal policies in Tanzania. It analyses the consequences of neoliberalism for the Tanzanian theatre and exposes the challenges it faces as a simulacrum of people’s culture. I also present evidence on why it is important, when analyzi... more

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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Guidebook on sustainability

Bill Siemering; Jean Fairbairn

Washington, DC: Developing Radio Partners (2007), 90 pp., illustr.

"The authors present six local and independent radio stations from Africa - community radio stations, and commercial and NGO run radio stations with strong community participation - showcasing good practices for sustainability, defined as "ability of a radio station to maintain a good quality develo... more