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Media Development
Ogbu Kalu
Media use in contemporary Africa has attracted much attention because the charismatic and Pentecostal movement has been the most avid consumers. Indeed, it is argued that media use is the most important explanation for the growth because...
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Media Development
- Mark Pelling and Kathleen Dill
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This article, from a briefing note prepared for Chatham House,1 presents initial findings of a study reviewing historical data on the political outcomes of disaster at the level of the nation...
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Media Development
Francis B. Nyamnjoh
African people are often bitter about the fact that the cultures and worldviews of others have coloured their own outlooks and, in certain cases, claimed centre stage in their lives. This makes it difficult to articulate what people consider their authentic...
Posted at 10:56h
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Media Development
Gado
The recent histories of African countries suggests that cartoonists, with their pointed wit and ability to reduce key issues to a single drawing, would be unwelcome. However, times are changing, as the following article reveals, and there is now more tolerance and scope....
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Media Development
Alexander Phiri
- The Oxford Advanced Learner Dictionary defines mass media as: 'means (especially newspaper, radio, TV) of imparting information to and influencing the ideas of enormous numbers of people'. In other words, the mass media can be either good...
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Media Development
Dina Iordanova
. A continuous footage taken through the window of a moving car. The houses on both sides of the road are either fully burnt or semi-destroyed. It goes on like this mile after mile.
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