Charles C. Okigbo is associate professor of communication at North Dakota State University. Festus Eribo is professor of communication and broadcasting at East Carolina University.

This is a book that very nicely bridges the worlds of the academe, policy, and practice, in a way that allows readers to understand and reflect on how far Africa has come on the development continuum, how much more needs to be accomplished, and how elusive it is to find the right formula for attaining and sustaining development objectives—despite four-plus decades of studying and writing about these issues.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionPart 2 Part I: FoundationChapter 3 1 Afrocentricity and Communication in AfricaChapter 4 2 The Triple Heritage: The Split Sould of a ContinentChapter 5 3 The African World: The Publics of African CommunicationPart 6 Part II: TheoryChapter 7 4 Communication and Political DevelopmentChapter 8 5 Multiple Perspectives on Development CommunicationChapter 9 6 Participatory Communication for Development and African Philosophy DebatePart 10 Part III: Media PracticeChapter 11 7 Reporting Africa's ProblemsChapter 12 8 Press Freedom and National Development in Africa after the Cold WarChapter 13 9 Broadcasting and National Development in AfricaPart 14 Part IV: African CultureChapter 15 10 Communication, Development, and Meta-ethnic EmpathyChapter 16 11 Adult Education and the MediaChapter 17 12 The Entertainment-Education Strategy in Development CommunicationPart 18 Part V: Communication TechnologyChapter 19 13 The Internet in Africa: Leapfrogging to a Global FurtureChapter 20 14 Information and Communication Technologies for Rural DevelopmentChapter 21 15 African Development and Innovation of Communication TechnologiesPart 22 Part VI: Unity, Debt, and CommunicationChapter 23 16 The New African Union and the Integration of AfricaChapter 24 17 Sustainable Development of Africa: The Debt CrisisChapter 25 18 Cultural Warrants in Development Communication Contexts in AfricaChapter 26 Bibliography