African Broadcast Cultures

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. - , University of Texas at El Paso

• 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.