Les entreprises de presse en Afrique, une activité lucrative?

Abstract

The liberalization of information has led almost everywhere in Africa to the creation of new private enterprises. Unlike the state media, which could easily count on large operating subsidies, private companies were at their early stages confronted to the challenge of financial stability and profitability. Faced with constraints of all kinds, they had to find alternatives. The way forward for the viability and the sustainability of private media should depend now on other innovative ways as stated by the author. This new model should include social, economic and cultural particularities of African countries or regions.