"The author reviews the present and foreseeable influence of newspapers, radio and television respectively on the people of Black Africa — He emphasises the success of those periodicals which concentrate on local news as well as the important part played by the increasing numbers of transistor sets in the interior — This could prove very important in the field of economic development, provided there is good programming of broadcasts from the stations in the capitals or important urban centres — However there is still a long way to go before Africa, Asia and Latin America are brought into line with the more developed nations in all the fields of modern information." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 515, topic code 172, 262, 452)