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Food Security Communication: An Investigation Into the Influence of Radio Programmes on Irish Potato Farming in Nakuru County, Kenya

Hillary Sang, Mary Mogute

Journal of Development and Communication Studies, volume 8, issue 2 (2021), 11 pp.

"The Government of Kenya recognizes Irish potato as one of the food security and nutrition crops together with maize and rice (GoK, 2017). This study sought to investigate the influence of radio programmes in promoting Irish potato farming as a contributor to food security in Nakuru County. The stud ... more

Shamba Shape Up Series 11: Knowledge, Attitude and Practices Report

GeoPoll (2021), 65 pp.

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Digital News Report 2021
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Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, Anne Schulz, Simge Andi, Craig T. Robertson, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (eds.)

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2021), 163 pp.

"This year's report reveals new insights about digital news consumption based on a YouGov survey of over 92,000 online news consumers in 46 markets including India, Indonesia, Thailand, Nigeria, Colombia and Peru for the first time. The report looks at the impact of coronavirus on news consumption a ... more

State of the Media Survey Report 2023

Nairobi: Media Council of Kenya (2021), xii, 54 pp.

"The Media survey indicates that Television remains the primary source of news, with 47% of respondents indicating it as their go-to platform for staying informed. Following closely is Radio, with 31% of respondents relying on it for news updates. The survey also revealed that Citizen Tv emerged as ... more

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Mobile Assemblages and Maendeleo in Rural Kenya

Leah Jerop Komen

Bamenda: Langaa (2021), 208 pp.

"In this book, Leah Komen explores the impact of mobile telephony on the lives of people in rural Kenya. The book analyses the outcomes of complex intersections and interactions between mobile phones, individuals, and the broader society as distinct from the traditional cause-effect relationships in ... more

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Television in Africa in the Digital Age

Gilbert Motsaathebe, Sarah H. Chiumbu (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xxi, 295 pp.

"This book places television in Africa in the digital context. It addresses the onslaught of multimedia platforms, digital migration and implication of this technology for society. The discussions in the chapters contained in this book encompass a wide range of issues such as digital disruption of t ... more

The Politics of Impunity and the Shifting Media Landscape in Kenya

Philip Onguny

Athens Journal of Mass Media and Communications, volume 7, issue 1 (2021), pp. 61-78

"This article focuses on state-media relations and the shifts in the overall media landscape in Kenya. Drawing on a political economy approach to media operations in Kenya, it argues that while there are competing meanings over what constitutes "news values", "editorial independence", and "critical ... more

Regional good practices: Accelerating innovation, entrepreneurship and digital transformation in the Africa States region

Geneva: ITU (2021), ix, 64 pp.

"This report provides an overview of the comparative innovation capacity of the Africa region through ICT-centric Innovation policy monitors and shares insights about good practices strengthening the capacity to integrate ICT innovation in national development agendas. Overall, although sub-Saharan ... more

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The Coronavirus Pandemic in Africa

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 13, issue 2 (2021), pp. 133-299

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Media and Global Pandemics: Continuities and Discontinuities

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 13, issue 3 (2021), pp. 305-490

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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.

"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

Privacy and Personal Data Protection in Africa: A Rights-Based Survey of Legislation in Eight Countries

Hlengiwe Dube, Avani Singh (eds.)

African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms Coalition (2021), 372 pp.

"Of the eight countries surveyed here, only four have comprehensive data protection privacy acts in place: Kenya, South Africa, Togo and Uganda. But as these research reports suggest, this is not necessarily a strong indicator of whether a country is committed to privacy rights, or of the efficacy o ... more

Sexual Harassment in the Media: Africa Report

Cherilyn Ireton (ed.)

Paris: World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) (2021), 51 pp.

"Almost half of women respondents had been sexually harassed at work (47%). Women were twice as likely to experience sexual harassment at work than men. For one in two women, the harassment was verbal (56%), and for one in three, it was physical (38%). Only 30% of cases of sexual harassment were eve ... more

How Kenya’s Media Retooled Peer Review to Address Issues of Trust and Quality in News

Zablon Mark Oloo

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2021), 24 pp.

"Self regulation through peer review is a system whereby journalists hold each other accountable for the quality and accuracy of their content. If the Kenyan experience is anything to go by, this measure can provide an additional layer of scrutiny – additional to a state ombudsman or media houses� ... more

The African Film Industry: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities for Growth
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Marie Lora Mungai, Pedro Pimenta et al.

Paris: UNESCO (2021), 271 pp.

"For the first time, a complete mapping of the film and audiovisual industry in 54 States of the African continent is available, including quantitative and qualitative data and an analysis of their strengths and weaknesses at the continental and regional levels. The report proposes strategic recomme ... more

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Polarising Content and Hate Speech Ahead of Kenya's 2022 Elections

London: Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) (2021), 15 pp.

Media Viability in East Africa: Kenya

George Gathigi, Ann Hollifield

Aga Khan University;Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2021), vii, 30 pp.

Towards the Evaluation of Socio-Digital ID Ecosystems in Africa: Comparative Analysis of Findings from Ten Country Case Studies

Anri van der Spuy, Vrinda Bhandari, Shruti Trikanad, Yesha Tshering Paul

Centre for Internet and Society (CIS);Research ICT Africa (2021), 61 pp.

"Efforts to establish or improve national identification systems in Africa have coincided with the increasing deployment of mobile technology. This has led to the prioritisation of digital “solutions” for facilitating forms of identification and registration – often via biometric attributes [. ... more

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Media and the Pandemic. Adapting to Survive: Radio and Digital Media in Eastern Africa

Daniel Ominde Okoth

Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), Media Programme Sub-Sahara Africa (2021), 22 pp.

"[...] Radio is still the region’s most popular medium, especially in rural parts of the region where the majority of the population still live. The little advertisement revenue that still goes to media houses in the region lies in the hands of very few media outlets with a national reach. Most of ... more

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