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Radio has played a pivotal role in situations of conflict, crisis, change and development on the African continent. Local radio stations are as important as international broadcasters being both the barometers and agents of change. North America: Praeger

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Author:   Richard Fardon ,  Graham Furniss ,  Graham Furniss
Publisher:   James Currey
Imprint:   James Currey
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.382kg
ISBN:  

9780852558287

ISBN 10:   0852558287
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 January 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"African broadcast cultures, Richard Fardon and Graham Furniss. Part 1 Sub-Saharan surveys: from saucepan to dish - radio and TV in Africa, Graham Mytton; rural radio in Africa - audience research and participation strategies, Jean-Pierre Ilboudo. Part 2 Case studies in local radio: communtiy radio and development -issues and examples from Francophone West Africa, Mary Myers; the evolution of radio broadcasting in Burkina Faso - ""from mother radio to local radios"", Urbain Nombre; radio in Niger - central control versus local cultures, Christine Nimaga Ceesay; new local radio stations in African languages and the process of political transformation in the Republic of Benin - the case of Radio Rurale Locale Tanguieta (northern Benin), Tilo Gratz; popular culture in advertising - Nigerian Hausa radio, Mansur Abdulkadir. Part 3 Radio, conflict and political transition: the future of community radio in Africa - the case of southern Africa, Aida Opoku-Mensah; the multiple voices of Sudanese airspace, Wendy James; radio and conflict in Sierra Leone, Paul Richards; radio and the right to free speech (Rwanda and Zambia compared), Richard Carver and Linda Kirschke; the growth of independent broadcasting in South Africa -lessons for Africa?, Jeanette Minnie; is radio pluralism an instrument of political change? insights from Zambia, Jean-Pascal Daloz and Katherine Verrier-Frechette. Part 4 National and international broadcasters: obstacles to the emergence of a national radio and television broadcasting culture in Senegal, Ibrahima Sane; the relations between international and local broadcasters, Roger Nouma; the changing face of the BBC World Service for Africa, Elizabeth Ohene; postscript - the role of international broadcasters - a discussion."

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This collection on radio in Africa is extremely timely ... Whereas only a few years ago radio was almost always a centralized state monopoly, now a variety of stations - public, private, and community based - have proliferated. Thus, this is a very exciting moment, for media studies generally and for radio in particular, and a book on the current state of radio in Africa is most welcome. - Charles Ambler, University of Texas at El Paso ...excellent collection ... Fardon and Furniss and their various collaborators have provided us with a most useful collection, and one which in some ways continues the editors' earlier work on language policy. ... It opens up an important subject. - Stephen Ellis in SOAS BULLETIN

'This collection on radio in Africa is extremely timely... Whereas only a few years ago radio was almost always a centralized state monopoly, now a variety of stations - public, private, and community based - have proliferated. Thus, this is a very exciting moment, for media studies generally and for radio in particular, and a book on the current state of radio in Africa is most welcome.' - Charles Ambler, University of Texas at El Paso '...excellent collection...Fardon and Furniss and their various collaborators have provided us with a most useful collection, and one which in some ways continues the editors' earlier work on language policy. ...It opens up an important subject.' - Steven Ellis in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

This collection on radio in Africa is extremely timely ... Whereas only a few years ago radio was almost always a centralized state monopoly, now a variety of stations - public, private, and community based - have proliferated. Thus, this is a very exciting moment, for media studies generally and for radio in particular, and a book on the current state of radio in Africa is most welcome. - Charles Ambler, University of Texas at El Paso ...excellent collection ... Fardon and Furniss and their various collaborators have provided us with a most useful collection, and one which in some ways cr various collaborators have provided us with a most useful collection, and one which in some ways continues the editors' earlier

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