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African Print Cultures: Newspapers and Their Publics in the Twentieth Century

Derek R. Peterson, Emma Hunter, Stephanie Newell (eds.)

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2017), x, 447 pp.

"The first of four thematic sections, “African Newspaper Networks,” considers the work that newspaper editors did to relate events within their locality to happenings in far-off places. This work of correlation and juxtaposition made it possible for distant people to see themselves as fellow tra ... more

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Press Freedom and Nigeria's Cybercrime Act of 2015: An Assessment

Raymond Adibe, Cyril Chinedu Ike, Celestine Uchechukwu Udeogu

Africa Spectrum, volume 52, issue 2 (2017), pp. 117-127

"This study assesses the Cybercrime Act 2015 and its implications for online press freedom in the liberal authoritarian state of Nigeria. Specifically, the study examines how the character of political leadership in Nigeria leads to wrongful application of the act to undermine the independence of th ... more

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The Assault on Journalism. Building Knowledge to Protect Freedom of Expression
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Ulla Carlsson, Reeta Pöyhtäri (eds.)

Göteborg: Nordicom (2017), 363 pp.

"To support joint efforts to protect journalism, there is a growing need for research-based knowledge. Acknowledging this need, the aim of this publication is to highlight and fuel journalist safety as a field of research, to encourage worldwide participation, as well as to inspire further dialogues ... more

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Late Capitalism, Urbanisation, and Cultures of Economic “survivalism” in the BBC’s 'Welcome to Lagos'

Aghogho Akpome

Africa Spectrum, volume 52, issue 1 (2017), pp. 101-113

"This article examines the depiction of three impoverished Lagosian slums in the controversial British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) documentary, Welcome to Lagos, which highlights the negative impacts of globalised capitalism on urban culture in Nigeria’s commercial centre and biggest city. In r ... more

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Global Information Society Watch 2017: National and Regional Internet Governance Forum Initiatives (NRIs)
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Association for Progressive Communications (APC);International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2017), 249 pp.

"National and Regional Internet Governance Forums (NRIs) are the stars of the 2017 Global Information Society Watch. The story of NRIs began two years after the first global IGF held in 2006. In 2008, stakeholders from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda organised national forums and a subsequent Eas ... more

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Country Reports 2017

Celia Collins (ed.)

Pan African Media Research Organization (PAMRO) (2017), 258 pp.

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Country Reports 2016

Celia Collins (ed.)

Pan African Media Research Organization (PAMRO) (2017), 253 pp.

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Bridging the Gap: Rebuilding Citizen Trust in the Media
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Anya Schiffrin, Beatrice Santa-Wood, Susanna De Martino, Ellen Hume, Nicole Pope

Open Society Foundations (2017), 144 pp.

"Journalists in many countries are experimenting with how to build trust and engage with audiences, and our report examines their efforts. In our study we profile organizations that are working to build bridges with their readers, viewers and listeners and deliver relevant news to local audiences. W ... more

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More Than Propaganda, a Review of Boko Haram's Public Messages

Omar Mahmood

Pretoria: Institute for Security Studies (ISS) (2017), 31 pp.

"Although not always consistent, Boko Haram has ensured its narrative is publicly disseminated, which is revealing for a group that is extremely secretive. Messaging creates awareness about the group and its activities, which can tie into recruitment. Messaging demonstrates a clear pattern of expand ... more

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The Fight Against Lassa Fever in Ebonyi State, Nigeria: A Clash of the People’s Culture and Broadcast Media Campaign

Simon Ugochuwu Nwankwo, Agatha Orji-Egwu

IDOSR Journal of Communication and English, volume 2, issue 1 (2017), pp. 159-180

"Ebonyi State of Nigeria is among the states where the incidence of Lassa fever has become endemic; and has consequently led to the death of many people including health practitioners in the state. To mobilize the people against the disease, government and stakeholders in the health sector resorted ... more

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Influencing the Message: The Role of Media Ownership on the Press Coverage of the 2015 Presidential Electoral Campaign in Nigeria

Fatima Iyabo Abubakre

Brazilian Journalism Research, volume 13, issue 3 (2017), pp. 60-85

"This study focuses on the role of media ownership on the press coverage of the 2015 presidential election campaign in Nigeria. Using content analysis, the aim of the study was to identify the themes and examine the direction of the coverage of election campaign news items between the two main polit ... more

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Internet Use Barriers and User Strategies: Perspectives from Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Rwanda

Margaret Nyambura, Fola Odufuwa, Albert Nsengiyumva, Lwando Mdleleni, Mpho Moyo, Sinethemba Mthimkhulu

Research ICT Africa;Mozilla Foundation (2017), 40 pp.

"The study tested the following hypotheses: the use of subsidised services only forms part of data use; people do not move beyond the use of subsidised services; using the internet first through subsidised services leaves people with less of an understanding of the Internet. Using subsidised data fo ... more

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Strengthening Accountability Through Media in Nigeria: Final Evaluation

Michael Adebisi, Foluke Fadare et al.

London: BBC Media Action (2017), 47 pp.

"In a highly competitive media landscape, BBC Media Action’s governance programmes reached 52.8 million people in 2014 (and an estimated 64.6 million cumulatively), representing more than half the adult population of the country. One reason for this success was the brokering of radio partnerships ... more

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Pattern of Community Radio Ownership, Regulation and Usage for Development in Anglophone West African Countries

Emmanuel Ufuophu-Biri

Journal of Research and Development, volume 3, issue 2 (2017), pp. 30-38

"The findings show that community radio stations in Anglophone West African countries are owned and controlled by the community; the community radio in Anglophone West African countries is regulated along the broad guidelines that guide broadcasting in those countries; and community radio is used fo ... more

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Everyday Media Culture in Africa: Audiences and Users

Wendy Willems, Winston Mano (eds.)

London: Routledge (2017), 260 pp.

"This volume examines the lived experiences of Africans and their interaction with different kinds of media: old and new, state and private, elite and popular, global and national, material and virtual. By offering a comparative, critical and largely qualitative account of audiences and users across ... a range of national contexts in different regions of Africa, the book examines media through the voices and perspectives of those engaging with it rather than reducing audiences and users to numbers and statistics, ready to be exploited as potential target markets or as political constituencies. The critical, qualitative research perspective adopted in this book enables us to gain a better understanding of how African viewers, listeners and users make sense of a range of media forms; what role these play in their everyday lives and what audience and user engagement can tell us about how citizens perceive the state, how they imagine themselves in the wider world and how they relate to each other. The book argues that the experiences of audiences and engagements of users with a range of media—newspapers, radio, television, magazines, internet, mobile phones, social media—are always grounded in particular contexts, worldviews and knowledge systems of life and wisdom: ‘It is akin to the tortoise. The tortoise never leaves its shell behind. It carries it wherever it goes’ (Chivaura 2006: 221). African media audiences and users carry their contexts and cultural repertoires in the same way a tortoise carries its shell. Thus far, the bulk of academic research on media and communication in Africa has addressed the policy and regulatory aspects as well as the relation between media institutions and the state (Willems 2014a). While studies on media, democratization and press freedom are invaluable, the ways in which ordinary people make sense of, and relate to, media in their everyday lives are largely left beyond consideration. As Barber (1997: 357) has pointed out, ‘[w]hat has not yet been sufficiently explored is the possibility that specific African audiences have distinctive, conventional modes and styles of making meaning, just as performers/speakers do. We need to ask how audiences do their work of interpretation’." (Page 4) more

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Controversies and Restrictions of Visual Representation of Prophets in Northern Nigerian Popular Culture

Abdalla Uba Adamu

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 9, issue 1 (2017), pp. 17-31

"Generally, images in art forms occupy a controversial position in the Islamic world. The Sunni branch of Islam, considered more conservative and strict does not approve or condone representational art of the human form for fear that it would eventually turn into an object of worship. The Shi’ite ... more

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Changes in Journalism in Two Post-Authoritarian Non-Western Countries

Levi Obijiofor, Richard Murray, Shailendra B. Singh

International Communication Gazette, volume 79, issue 4 (2017), pp. 379-399

"There have been significant changes in journalistic practices in various countries over the years. Yet little is known about the nature of changes in journalism in transitional developing countries following military rule. Drawing on email surveys of journalists in Nigeria and Fiji, two countries w ... more

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The Asaba Massacre: Trauma, Memory, and the Nigerian Civil War

S. Elizabeth Bird, Fraser M. Ottanelli

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2017), xvii, 239 pp.

"In October 1967, early in the Nigerian Civil War, government troops entered Asaba in pursuit of the retreating Biafran army, slaughtering thousands of civilians and leaving the town in ruins. News of the atrocity was suppressed by the Nigerian government, with the complicity of Britain, and its sig ... more

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Intermediality of Images: A Semiotic Analysis of the ‘Occupy Nigeria Protest’ Images on Social Media

Nura Ibrahim

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 9, issue 1 (2017), pp. 33-48

"The protests that took place in Nigeria due to removal of fuel subsidy by the Jonathan administration in January 2012, tagged ‘Occupy Nigeria Protest’, have been labelled the social media revolution by the conventional media commentators in the country. For the first time in the history of the ... more

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World Press Freedom Day and Safety of Journalists: Implication for People’s Freedom of Expression

Oyewo Ayanfeoluwa, Oyewo Olusola Oyeyinka

New Media and Mass Communication, volume 54 (2016), pp. 34-38

"Every 3rd of May in the year, the world celebrates the freedom of the press. The celebration often serves as a reminder on the need for the protection of the Fundamental Human Rights and Freedom of Expression as embedded in the universal declaration of Human Rights as well as the constitution of co ... more

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Global Information Society Watch 2017: National and Regional Internet Governance Forum Initiatives (NRIs)
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Bridging the Gap: Rebuilding Citizen Trust in the Media
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