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The Sustainability Imperative in Media Development: A Critical Analysis of a Self-Serving Myth

Michel Leroy

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), xxiv, 396 pp.

"This book critically examines how the media assistance and broader "development" sectors have appropriated the catch-all concept of sustainability, originally rooted in economic and environmental fields, to suit their agendas. Analysing 289 project evaluations conducted globally between 1999 and 20 ... more

Digital Disinformation in Africa: Hashtag Politics, Power and Propaganda

Tony Roberts, George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane (ed.)

London: Zed Books (2024), xiv, 242 pp.

"In an era when hashtag campaigns like #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter capture global attention for victims of injustice, politicians and corporations are now spending billions employing Cambridge Analytica-type consultancies to manufacture disinformation - employing trolls, cyborgs and bots to disrupt ... more

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Social media and mis/disinformation in electoral context in the DRC

Pierre N'sana, Patient Ligodi, Pierre Bahati Ndamwenge et al.

USAID;FHI 360;Internews (2024), 57 pp.

Construction des identités des journalistes kinois dans le discours médiatique télévisuel: Analyse de l’émission de débat politique Club 50 de la chaîne Télé 50

Brunel Musinkete Mpongo

Kinshasa: Université Catholique du Congo, Master Thesis (2024), vi, 232 pp.

"[...] L’objectif de ce mémoire de DEA était de démontrer la manière dont les journalistes construisent leurs identités lorsqu’ils analysent l’actualité de la semaine sur le plateau de Télé 50. Nous avons considéré l’émission ayant fait objet d’analyse, de discours médiatique. ... more

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Remembering Mass Atrocities: Perspectives on Memory Struggles and Cultural Representations in Africa

Mphathisi Ndlovu, Lungile Augustine Tshuma, Shepherd Mpofu (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xvii, 303 pp.

"This book explores how popular cultural artifacts, literary texts, commemorative practices and other forms of remembrances are used to convey, transmit and contest memories of mass atrocities in the Global South. Some of these historical atrocities took place during the Cold war. As such, this book ... more

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Communication et gestion de crise électorale en RD Congo: Analyse des stratégies de communication de la CENI durant le cycle électoral de 2023

Jean-Claude Unyuthowun Ubegiu

Revue Internationale du Chercheur, volume 5, issue 2 (2024), pp. 592-612

"En contexte d’élections hors pair comme en 2023 en RDC, on s’attendrait à une contestation populaire des résultats. Mais le contraire s’est avéré vrai. Comment expliquer ce paradoxe ? A travers une approche herméneutique, sous-tendue par la recherche documentaire et l’observation dire ... more

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Balobaki: La démocratie congolaise à l’heure des réseaux sociaux, des fake news et de la manipulation

Ange Kasongo Adihe

Paris: L'Harmattan (2023), 164 pp.

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Information Ecosystem Assessment (IEA) on the Impact of Cyber Security Cybercrime Laws enacted by Southern Africa Governments on Media Freedom and Digital Rights

Dianne Hubbard, Frederico Links

Advancing Rights in Southern Africa (ARISA);Internews;USAID (2023), 633 pp.

"In 2023, Advancing Rights in Southern Africa (ARISA) through its consortium partner, Internews, undertook the most comprehensive review yet of laws affecting media practice and the freedom of expression, including cyber laws, penal codes, constitutions and acts of parliament, in the sixteen Souther ... more

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Representing Gender-Based Violence: Global Perspectives

Caroline Williamson Sinalo, Nicoletta Mandolini (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xvii 314 pp.

"This book focuses on the politics, ethics and stereotypical pitfalls of representational practices surrounding Gender-Based Violence (GBV) from a global perspective. The originality of the volume is linked to its cross-disciplinary perspective as the topic of representing GBV is analyzed across the ... more

Cinema Negro. D’África à Diáspora: O pensamento antirracista de Kabengele Munanga

Celso Luiz Prudente, Rogério de Almeida

São Paulo: Faculdade de Educação da Universidade de São Paulo (FEUSP) (2023), 536 pp.

Cryptopolitics: Exposure, Concealment, and Digital Media

Victoria Bernal, Katrien Pype, Daivi Rodima-Taylor (eds.)

New York: Berghahn (2023), vii, 245 pp.

"Hidden information, double meanings, double-crossing, and the constant processes of encoding and decoding messages have always been important techniques in negotiating social and political power dynamics. Yet these tools, "cryptopolitics," are transformed when used within digital media. Focusing on ... more

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Film Practice in the Context of War in Greater North Kivu Region of the Democratic Republic of Congo: The Film Message as a Tool for Peace

Jean-Paul Paluku Kamili

Nairobi: Daystar University, Doctoral Thesis (2023), xii, 348 pp.

"Greater North Kivu is a region in the East of the DRC characterized by an unending socio-cultural and political crisis that has brought about insecurity, war, massacres, and land conflicts since 1996. Efforts to resolve this war crisis to restore justice and peace have not been successful. The aim ... of this research was to evaluate the film practice in the Greater North Kivu region in the context of this war situation and if those films which were set against this reality had messages that focused on sustainable peace. The specific research questions of the study were: What could be the varying contexts of war and related conflicts from which each of the selected films acquires its character? In what way do the cinematographic messages reflect the context of war in the Greater North Kivu? How do the thematic messages aim to sensitize the population towards peace in the region? What are the opportunities and challenges of film making for peace in the region? What construct emerges as a typology of context and types of persuasion messages that may emerge from selected films of the study. The study adopted a qualitative research design, and constructivism and interpretivism philosophical research paradigms. The target population consisted of film makers in the Greater North Kivu, civil society, community and government leaders. The study concluded that the multiple contexts of the war manifest in the character of the variety of films produced but that the film codes reflecting this reality aim to break and change it thereby creating a new grammar for a new context. In addition, the film for sensitizing works with strategies of arousing emotions that are carefully selected with great sensitivity because of the fragile context of the war situation in its causes, consequences, and what is to be done. The thesis of this study is that the many contexts of the war situation in the region of study manifest themselves in the selected films chosen for the research. In a simultaneous manner the film maker’s codes aim to break the existing contexts to new beginnings. While the film codes may be of the grammar of existing context, their very ambition and motivation is to introduce a new grammar for a vision of a new context, transforming the old one. Based on the findings of the current study, the study recommends the film makers to continue to use potent symbolism in their stories to effectively sensitize the population to the situation and promote the necessary actions. The study recommends to the government and policymakers makers to allocate resources towards the Ministry of Arts and Culture to support local film production, recognizing its potential as a tool for peacebuilding and societal change." (Abstract) more

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Résurgence du Mouvement du 23 mars : Quel avenir pour la Région des Grands Lacs africains ?

Goma: Éditions de Pole Institute (2023), 331 pp.

"Ce numéro porte un regard critique sur la crise que traverse actuellement la Province du Nord Kivu, et la RDC en général, à cause de la nouvelle guerre imposée au pays par le mouvement rebelle M23. Connaissant une période sécuritaire sombre qui y a motivé l’instauration d’un État de si ... more

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Médias sociaux en République du Congo: Entre monopole de l’information et déclin des médias classiques

Antonin Idriss Bossoto

Paris: L'Harmattan (2022), 112 pp.

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A Dark Place for Women Journalists & Women Human Rights Defenders: Documenting the Experiences of Online Violence in Anglo & Francophone Countries

Nyamwire Bonnita, Metial Kupfer, Siba Yahaya Mardiya

Internews;Pollicy (2022), 46 pp.

"All respondents had experienced online violence. Misogynistic hate speech, sexists’ comments, body shaming as well as slut shaming was common among the women journalists and WHRDs interviewed. These threats were also extended to their families, friends, relatives and networks. Another frequently ... more

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Borderland: Decolonizing the Words of War

Chrisanthi Giotis

Oxford University Press (2022), x, 278 pp.

"In an era marked by an unprecedented refugee crisis and ongoing, seemingly unending, borderland conflicts, foreign correspondents could play a pivotal role in helping create a global public sphere that incorporates the perspectives of those who are most effected by ongoing resource-fueled wars—an ... more

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Femmes et médias au Congo. L'information de proximité en journalisme: Mon combat

Bianca-Cornélie Nkonda

Paris: L'Harmattan (2022), 159 pp.

"Devenir journaliste fait rêver bon nombre des Congolais. Un métier noble dont la pratique doit allier non seulement analyse et relationnel, mais aussi travail de terrain. Une option nécessaire à l’évaluation de l’éthique et de la déontologie enseignées à l’école, mais dont l’exerc ... more

Status of Digital Agriculture in 47 Sub-Saharan African Countries
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FAO;ITU (2022), x, 351 pp.

"It aims at providing a holistic view of digital transformation in the agriculture sector of 47 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The region’s digital agriculture landscape is assessed through six key themes, namely: infrastructure, digital penetration, policy and regulation, business environment, ... more