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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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Media Development
Francis B. Nyamnjoh
The media have a duty to promote what Africans have in common and to play down what divides them. If they bring to the fore what divides, unity is endangered. This implies that if a certain politics or way of playing...
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Media Development
Andy Mason
Cartoonists from seven African countries gathered at the University of Botswana, 8-10 November 2000, to discuss common issues, share the secrets of their profession and talk about the possibility of setting up an association of African cartoonists. The first of its kind...
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Media Development
The seminar on ‘Promoting an Independent and Pluralistic African Press’ took place in Windhoek, Namibia, 29 April to 3 May 1991. It was sponsored by the UN and UNESCO. Participants issued a declaration based on Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights calling...