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Média résistance: Un écho pour les voix discordantes

Serge Bailly, Didier Beaufort

Paris: Karthala (2000), 326 pp.

Media Résistance a publié en 2000 le réçit de 23 expériences de journaux, de radios et de télévision indépendantes. Le livre entend répondre à quatre questions: comment les médias résistent aux diverses pressions par les mots, quel est leur rôle dans le renforcement de la société civi ... more

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Stratégies pour le dévelopment d’un secteur editorial en langues nationales dans les Pays du Sahel—Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, et Sénégal

Hassana Alidou-Ngame

London: Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), Working Group on Books and Learning Materials (2000), 116 pp.

"Une synthèse des politiques de plusieurs pays africains francophones en matière de développement et d'utilisation des langues africaines en tant que stratégie essentielle pour l'amélioration et l'expansion des programmes d'éducation, et la fourniture de matériel didactique pertinent." (Hans ... more

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The Media at War: Communication and Conflict in the Twentieth Century

Susan L. Carruthers

New York; Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave (2000), 321 pp.

Mission, Kommunikation, Medien

Dieter Becker (ed.)

Lothar Bauerochse (collab.)

Frankfurt am Main: Lembeck (2000), 165 pp.

Responsive Programming: A Model for Developing Conflict Resolution Media and Other Interventions Based on the Work of Talking Drum Studio Monrovia, Liberia

Nancy Torrey, Amr Abdalla

Common Ground Productions (1999), 24 pp.

"This paper is an exploration of different approaches to programming for conflict resolution media and its complementary interventions. It presents a new model for media communicators to use in creating programming focused on peacebuilding. It is based on the authors' recent mission to Liberia to as ... more

Research and Evaluation Report: Conflict Mapping and Media Programs Assessment. The Case of Liberia's Talking Drum Studio

Amr Abdalla, Nancy Torrey

Search for Common Ground (1999), 76 pp.

Strengthening Publishing in Africa: An Evaluation of APNET

Lars P. Christensen et al.

Stockholm: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (1999), xv, 64 pp. + 5 annexes

"APNET - the African Publishers Network - was formed in 1992 to promote indigenous publishing in Africa. From a modest beginning, APNET has grown to become a well-established network with members in 27 countries in all parts of the continent. With a secretariat in Harare and the active participation ... more

"Leave None to Tell the Story": Genocide in Rwanda

Alison Des Forges

New York et al.: Human Rights Watch (1999), 525 pp.

Children and Media: Image, Education, Participation

Cecilia von Feilitzen, Ulla Carlsson (eds.)

Göteborg: UNESCO International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media (1999), 483 pp.

"This yearbook compiles research findings on children and youth and media violence from the perspective of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The thematic focus of this yearbook is on what is being done to combat gratuitous media violence. It presents information on media educ ... more

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The Art of Facilitating Participation: Releasing the Power of Grassroots Communication

Shirley A. White (ed.)

Thousand Oaks: Sage (1999), 367 pp.

Locally Generated Printed Materials in Agriculture: Experience from Uganda and Ghana

Isabel Carter

London: Department for International Development (DFID) (1999), ix, 116 pp.

Toward Literate Societies: Publishing in Local Languages

Ingrid Jung

In: Educational Publishing in Global Perspective: Capacity Building and Trends

Shobhana Sosale (ed.)

Washington, DC: World Bank (1999), pp. 24-33

"An analysis of publishing in African languages in four countries of francophone Africa (Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Senegal), where the Deutsche Stiftung für Internationale Entwicklung (German Foundation for International Development, now part of GIZ), in cooperation with other agencies, has be ... more

A Global Partnership Experience: EDICEF in Cameroon

Laurent Loric

In: Educational Publishing in Global Perspective: Capacity Building and Trends

Shobhana Sosale (ed.)

Washington, DC: World Bank (1999), pp. 180-185

"The partnership between EDICEF (part of the French Hachette Group) and Edition CLE of Yaoundé in Cameroon is used to draw general conclusions about publishing partnerships between industrial and developing countries, examining which aspects work and those that are rendered difficult by the intrins ... more

African Theatre in Development

Martin Banham, James Gibbs, Femi Osofisan (eds.)

Bloomington; Oxford: Indiana University Press;James Currey Publishers (1999), x, 182 pp.

Fernsehen in der Kultur der Igbo: Eine medienethnologische Untersuchung am Beispiel der Nri in Südostnigeria, Westafrika

Werner Trieselmann

Frankfurt am Main: IKO Verlag für Interkulturelle Kommunikation (1999), 366 pp.

Evaluation of Fondation Hirondelle Star Radio Project

Gregory A. Kintz

Washington, DC: International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES) (1999), 67 pp.

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Ethics in Journalism: A Reader on Their Perception in the Third World

Michael Kunczik (ed.)

Bonn: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (1999), 270 pp.

Peacekeeping and Public Information: Caught in the Crossfire

Ingrid A. Lehmann

London: Frank Cass (1999), 175 pp.

"This is an important and brave book. It is important because it is fresh, analytical and identifies the grave shortcomings in the handling of information and the media by the UN in conflicts and emergencies. It is brave because it is written by an insider who knows the deficiencies and wants organi ... more

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Handbuch Afrika in drei Bänden. Bd.1: Zentralafrika, Südliches Afrika und die Staaten im Indischen Ozean

Walter Schicho

Frankfurt am Main; Wien: Brandes & Apsel;Südwind (1999), 351 pp.