Reporting Africa : in African and international mass media

Abstract

Research workers, information officials, and editors and journalists from newspapers, radio and television who cover the African scene participated in the discussions about the role and status of mass media in Africa and the problems in "Reporting Africa". The papers introduced at the seminar are published here.

<p>Contents: Preface / Carl Gösta Widstrand -- The mass media in Africa and Africa in the international mass media – an introduction / Olav Stokke -- Part one: Mass Media in Africa -- The mass media – institutions of the African political systems / Colin Legum -- Editing a government newspaper in Nigeria / Mamman Daura -- Freedom of expression in a government newspaper in Ghana / Eddie Afyemang -- Press freedom in Kenya / George Githii -- Mass communication in Africa – Freedoms and functions / Olav Stokke -- Part two: Reporting Africa by the international mass media -- The problem of cultural translation in the reporting of African social realities / Ulf Himmelstrand -- The British mass media / David Williams -- The French mass media / Ahmed Baba Miské -- The North American mass media / Clyde Sanger -- The Soviet and Czechoslovak press / Ladislav Venyš -- The Nordic television services -- The Danish broadcasting corporation / Jörgen Flindt Pedersen -- The Finnish broadcasting company / Yrjö Länsipuro -- The Norwegian broadcasting corporation / Knut Sogstad -- The Swedish broadcasting corporation / Bo Bjelfvenstam -- Some problems confronting a correspondent specializing in reporting Africa / Colin Legum -- Contributors -- List of participants in the seminar -- List of abbreviations</p>