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- 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review
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- 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review (New Series)
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- This articles reviews critically the evolution, present status and future development of telecommunications in the African continent. It reports the major efforts so far made to develop telecommunications technology and services in Africa and points out that despite all these efforts, it is a painful fact that Africa still lags behind in the development of communications. The article attributes this unfortunate situation mainly to economic resource constraints, inefficient planning, inadequate roads, lack of coordination and low priority of communication development. It then calls for greater cooperation among African countries, funding agencies, the United Nations and the industrialized countries in this crucial area of telecommunications development in Africa, for the mutual benefit of all.
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- 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Africa Media Review
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- 1996-06-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- African Journal of Political Science
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- 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review
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- 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review (New Series)
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- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review (New Series)
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- The paper undertakes a re-interpretation of the problem of internal conflicts and civil wars in Africa, from the perspective of citizenship and rights. The central argument is that although the genealogy and dimensions of conflicts and civil wars in Africa are quite complex and varied, however, underlying most of those conflicts, especially those that erupted within the last decade, is the issue of citizenship and rights. The construction and nature of the state in Africa, which is rooted in the colonial pedigree, tend towards the institutionalization of ethnic entitlements, rights and privileges, which creates differentiated and unequal status of citizenship. This tendency de-individualizes citizenship and makes it more of a group phenomenon. As such, rather the state providing a common bond for the people through the tie of citizenship, with equal rights, privileges and obligations, both in precepts and practice, people's loyalties are bifurcated. The result is usually tensions and contradictions in the public sphere as claims of marginalization, exclusion and domination among individuals and groups are rife. The consequence is mostly conflicts and civil wars in Africa.
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- 2001-12-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- African Journal of Political Science
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- 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review
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- A central issue in nutrition and health of children is maternal education. In Nigeria, as in many other African countries, the state ofeducaiton of women is very deplorable. In the rural areas, where traditonal values and norms are very strict, women feel relatively disenfranchised and powerless in pursuing their educational and other personal needs and goals. In addition to traditional restrictions, they suffer from religious moratorium of some sort, in their efforts to meet their social needs. Under these conditons most rural women remain predominantly ignorant, in a social revolutinary sense, thus lacking in both positive aggression and self-esteem. The authors emphasized the deliterious effects which poor maternal education and illiteracy would have on childbearing. In particualr, since a child's physical and mental well-being depend greatly on the maternal skill of nurturance and knowledge about healthful living, children of uneducated and illiterate mothers are more likely to experience greater vulnerability to diseases. Suggestions for the prevention and alleviation of maternal educational impoverishment are included for policy implementation.
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- 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review (New Series)
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- 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review (New Series)
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- Why do people have children, or what values do they assign to having children and how does the value assigned to children reflect in the ways they are socialized? These are the two main questions this paper discusses from a theoretical point of view and as basis for generating hypotheses to be tested out within the Ghanaian cultural setting. The paper draws upon ideas emerging from an ongoing research project - Value of children (VOC) - which was initiated about 30 years ago in nine countries and is currently being replicated in some nine different countries. Of concern in the VOC-project is that African countries were neither included in the original studies, nor in the on-going replication studies. This is not to suggest that the issues addressed by the VOC-studies are of no relevance to Africa. On the contrary, problems of rapid population increase growth / in the presence of stagnant economies plus the burden of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Sahara Africa make Africa an ideal site to undertake such a study. 'The primary aim of this paper is therefore to raise some of the concerns about the implications of the VOC-study findings for Africa and in particular for Ghana, and perhaps more importantly to initiate a similar study in Ghana. To elucidate the relevance of VOC for Ghana, the paper examines some of the changes globalization has bought in Ghana and links these to fertility behavior and child-rearing practices.
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- 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review (New Series)
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- 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Glendora Review
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- 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review
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- 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Glendora Review
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- 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Glendora Review
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- This paper analyses the concepts of development and democracy to determine their compatibility within the African situation, and discusses how the mass media could promote them. It demonstrates that, while appropriate models of the concept of democracy are still being sought, it is indisputable that there already exist sufficient elements in the African conception of human rights to provide a base for a press system that tends towards liberalism rather than authoritarianism. It, therefore, approaches the discussion from the perspective of what role the press ought to play in the African society to promote both democracy and development.
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- 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Africa Media Review
- Date Issued:
- 1997-06-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- African Journal of Political Science
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- 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review
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- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review (New Series)
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- 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review
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- 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review
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- 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review (New Series)
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- 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review (New Series)
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- This article has shown that even though women in a cash crop growing area on the Ghana side of the Ghana-Togo border played virtually no role in the transfer of land to migrant farmers, it was they who, either as wives or heads of household, faced the responsibility of dealing with household food insecurity that had resulted from the transfer of the land. Thus, the paper suggests that, in collaboration with its development partners, the Government of Ghana should assist these women to develop alternative income-earning enterprises that deemphasize land as the only means of earning livelihood in the area.
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- 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review (New Series)
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- 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review
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- 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review
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- 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review
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- 1972-06-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review
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- 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review
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- 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review
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- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review (New Series)
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- 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Glendora Review
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- 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Glendora Review
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- This paper begins by profiling the key elements of the RASCOM study and their implications for the socioeconomic development of Africa. It then analyzes the traditional arguments in the debate about the role of the new Information and communication technologies in African development. Arguing for a regional approach to telecommunication infrastructural development, the paper examines SADCC's experience and concludes by offering a framework within which strategies can be mapped out for an integrated information and communication technologies development.
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- 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Africa Media Review
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- On 8 May 1996, Thabo Mbeki made what, within the context of the politics of identity in South Africa, was regarded as a ground breaking speech in which he boldly declared: "I am an African." This predated a call for the "African renaissance" in an address to the United States Corporation Council on Africa in 1997. Since then, the concept of the African renaissance has assumed a life of its own, not only within the borders of South Africa but throughout the African continent. The term and the idea of an African renaissance are not new. Neither is the pronouncement of an African identity an historic one since so many people have, over the centuries, publicly declared and identified themselves as Africans. This paper argues that the concept of the renaissance has since brought into sharp focus the post-Apartheid notion of the "return". Two conceptions about "the return" are identified. The first is an Afro-pessimistic conception that construes the return as a regression to something similar to the Hobbesian "state of nature" and thus retrogressive and oppressive and, the second, and opposite, conception interprets the return as necessary, and thus progressive, liberatory politics. It is argued that the former view smacks of distorted (apartheid's) representations, symptomatic of most western images of Africa and the African, a view driven by ideological and political motives desirous of halting and obstructing transformatory praxis. In defense of the libratory interpretation, an attempt is made to show, contra current views,that this interpretation is not conservative, nativist or essentialist but that, in line with Aime Cesaire's Return to the Native Land and Amilca Cabral's Return to the Source projects, it is directed at reconstructing and rehabilitating the African while forging an identity and authenticity thought to be appropriate to the exigencies of "modern" existence.
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- 2002-12-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- African Journal of Political Science
- Date Issued:
- 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review
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- 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review (New Series)
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- 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review (New Series)
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- This paper critically reviews the history of journalism education in Africa, and the controversies surrounding it. The authors reckon that dependency theorists have argued about the inappropriateness of Western models and professional standards for Third World journalism. However, in spite of this rhetoric, many Third World schools of journalism and practitioners tend to follow the Western approaches. Of these approaches, the American practical orientation seems to appeal most to those who teach, sponsor, or practice journalism in the Third World.
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- 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Africa Media Review
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- This article examines the idea of African renaissance in relation to the teaching of human rights in African schools. It explores the connection between the African Renaissance and human rights, and whether there is a specific African concept of human rights. In the light of these discussions, the article sketches a perspective that should underpin the teaching of human rights a task that the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, 1981 obligates its States Parties to undertake.
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- 2000-06-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- African Journal of Political Science
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- 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review
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- 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review
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- 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review (New Series)
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- 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Glendora Review
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- 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review
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- 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review
- Date Issued:
- 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review
- Date Issued:
- 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review
- Date Issued:
- 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review
- Date Issued:
- 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review (New Series)
- Date Issued:
- 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review (New Series)
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- 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review (New Series)
- Date Issued:
- 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Africa Media Review
- Date Issued:
- 1996-06-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- African Journal of Political Science
- Date Issued:
- 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review
- Date Issued:
- 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Glendora Review
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- 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Glendora Review
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- Discusses briefly the Zimbabwe Intrernational Book Fair in 1994.
- Date Issued:
- 1995-06-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Glendora Review
- Date Issued:
- 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review
- Date Issued:
- 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review
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- Three methods of studying dialect and language relationships are first discussed. Then the problem of the term "Fra-Fra" and the scope of the present research are presented. There follow tables of the results of the survey to date (10th Sept. 1973) and comments on the places visited. Appendices give cognate counts and population figures, and an account of the extension of the survey to Kusaal.
- Date Issued:
- 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review
- Date Issued:
- 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review
- Date Issued:
- 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review
- Date Issued:
- 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Glendora Review
- Date Issued:
- 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Glendora Review
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- 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Glendora Review
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- The protection of the environment is a matter of global concern that calls for global measures. Improved and effective information about the environment and communication within the globe is vital because it broadens public awareness and participation in the debate on environmental challenges facing human kind today. And the upsurge of electronic networking through computers which is generally called the information superhighway appears to be a development that can precisely address this need. However, as more and more environmental information on a global scale continues to be stored and controlled electronically, developing countries risk becoming more marginalized within the rapidly evolving world economy due to lack of computers and low levels of computer literacy among the majority of their population. The question is: what are the likely consequences of this situation bearing in mind the understanding that environmental degradation does not affect Africa only or but the whole globe?. This paper gives a situational analysis of the information superhighway in Africa and suggests policy issues which need to be addressed both internationally and regionally if the expectations environmental communication are to be realized.
- Date Issued:
- 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Africa Media Review
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- This paper identifies the inalienable features which characterize the truly indigenous African film. It argues that the pre-eminence of the USA and India in the international movie marketplace translates into the colonization of both the medium and the industry in the importing country. It works out the rubrics for an African aesthetic of the film with examples from the works of leading African film makers.
- Date Issued:
- 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Africa Media Review
- Date Issued:
- 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review
- Date Issued:
- 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review
- Date Issued:
- 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review (New Series)
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- This article makes a case for improved news coverage of the rural areas of Africa as a vital component of African nations' rural and national development efforts. It offers a contextual definition of rural news reporting in Africa, and provides a theoretical and philosophical framework that should guide the African rural reporter on the job. The article went further to critically examine the dominant strategies for rural reporting, rural news gathering strategies and sources, some specialized techniques for packaging rural news reports, and the general and specific channels for transmitting rural news reports. In addition to the universalistic news packaging approaches which should be contextually modified and applied by African rural news reports who should live in the rural areas with the ruralites, this articles also recommended the Screw Model and the Promo-News forms of rural news presentation and systematically explained how these can be applied.
- Date Issued:
- 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Africa Media Review
- Date Issued:
- 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review (New Series)
- Date Issued:
- 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Glendora Review
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- This article disaggregates the population information, education and communication (IEC) sector into: population information which includes the technical and statistical information of awareness creation; population education through formal institutions (e.g. schools) and non-formal ones (e.g. adult education programmes); and population communication aimed at fostering interest, creating demand and supporting population programme activities. It describes the typology of population information end-users (information brokers) as including policy/decision makers and implementors, service providers and professionals, NGO administrators, university lecturers and researchers, community leaders, and media workers (journalists and producers). These end-users are characterized by the fact that they are non-demographers and hence the need to put in place a 'brokerage' system for translating specialist material into non-specialist information an important aspect of popularization. The mass media are then to be used to diffuse the information so processed to target condiences. The article surveys the mass media situation in Africa and proposes ways in which they may be used to disseminate population information more effectively and accurately.
- Date Issued:
- 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Africa Media Review
- Date Issued:
- 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review
- Date Issued:
- 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review
- Date Issued:
- 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Research Review
- Date Issued:
- 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Research Review
- Date Issued:
- 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Glendora Review
- Date Issued:
- 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Glendora Review
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- This paper describes the intensifying AIDS epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa, and identifies a range of emergent needs in this connection. It examines existing social work involvement in AIDS and finds that social workers in Africa are currently considerably under utilised in this field. The paper explores potential social work roles and argues for the inclusion of AIDS issues in all social work training, and for closer coordination between medical and social aspects of care, to engage social workers and others in meeting growing needs more effectively. The author argues for the mobilisation of widespread community resourcesfor the prevention of HIV, to provide support for people with HIV or AIDS and their families, and to recognise AIDS as a critical development issue demanding an urgent response.
- Date Issued:
- 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Date Issued:
- 1985-07-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review (New Series)
- Date Issued:
- 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Research Review (New Series)
- Date Issued:
- 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Research Review (New Series)
- Date Issued:
- 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Glendora Review
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- This paper uses a reassessment of the legacy of Paulo Freire as a point of departure to construct analytical frameworks, based upon insights from development and political communication, for use in assessing the significance and potential of alternative media for political change in Africa. The notion of alternative media is understood as incorporating a variety of dimensions (difference, independence, opposition, and representation) whose importance is determined by the parameters of particular struggles. The paper eschews country-specific analysis and is sceptical of the likely trajectories of the democratization processes (transitions) in Africa.
- Date Issued:
- 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Africa Media Review
- Date Issued:
- 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Research Review
- Date Issued:
- 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Research Review
- Date Issued:
- 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Research Review
- Date Issued:
- 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Glendora Review
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- The article discusses peacekeeping in Africa, primarily, though not exclusively, of the United Nations. More specifically, it examines some problems associated withthe expanded utilization of peace enforcement in the absence of an international consensus on the norms and principles governing the collective use of force in various dimensions. The concept of "farming out" of peacekeeping both to regional organizations and to willing coalition of member-states is reviewed. It is argued that, almost invariably, collective peacekeeping in the post-cold war period has been executed in a haphazard and ill-defined manner. It is also argued that largely because of such shortcomings, credibility and legitimacy of the United Nations as the ultimate guarantor of international peace and security has all but been lost.
- Date Issued:
- 2001-12-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- African Journal of Political Science
- Date Issued:
- 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Research Review
- Date Issued:
- 1972-06-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Research Review
- Date Issued:
- 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Research Review
- Date Issued:
- 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Glendora Review
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- This paper discusses the kind of mass communication research that is required in Africa. After a thorough review of the controversy between the adherents of the (American) administrative and (European) critical research schools, the author argues that as far as African mass communication research is concerned, the problem is not only that of conceptualization but also that of social research process and administration. The paper registers a general dissatisfaction with African social research based on foreign theoretical and methodological assumptions. It ends with a call for 'back to our roots', having outlined four major research agenda for African mass communication researchers.
- Date Issued:
- 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Africa Media Review
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- Review of: Manthia Diawara. In search of Africa. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1998
- Date Issued:
- 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Glendora Books Supplement
- Date Issued:
- 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Research Review