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Media & Mass Communication

Latest addition : 1 September 2011.

This category's books

  • No Trifling Matter: Contributions of an Uncompromising Critic to the Democratic Process in Cameroon

    2011, author(s)-editor(s) Godfrey B. Tangwa
    No Trifling Matter is a collection of controversial, critical weekly commentary on the reluctance of a monolithic regime to yield to popular aspirations for democracy in Cameroon. In these essays written between 1990 and November 1992, Godfrey Tangwa, alias Rotcod Gobata, doesn’t quibble. He comes across as a man of courage and resolve; one ready to swim upstream in a manner of a desperate midwife eager to prevent a still birth (in this case, of democracy). His column is as daring an (...)

  • Mass Media and Democratisation in Cameroon in the Early 1990s

    2011, author(s)-editor(s) Francis B. Nyamnjoh
    In the on-going democratic debate, the Cameroonian media have not played the role of objective mediators. A one-party logic, of which government, opposition and the public are guilty, has prevented Cameroonian multipartyism from addressing the major issue: that of how best to bring about real participatory democracy. So far, democracy has served mainly as a face powder, an empty concept or slogan devoid of concrete meaning used to justify reactionary propaganda by the ruling party and its (...)

  • Ako-Aya: A Cameroorian Pioneer in Daring Journalism and Social Commentary

    2010, author(s)-editor(s) Ephraim N. Ngwafor
    Patrick Tataw Obenson, alias Ako-Aya, the rabid critic, social crusader and witty journalist, all rolled up in one, was indeed a popular and widely admired pioneer in daring journalism and social commentary in Cameroon. Little wonder that when he died, he left behind countless painful hearts and many questions on the lips of his admirers. As a man of the people, the fallen hero of Cameroon’s Fleet Street shared his experiences, be they good or bad, with his readers. He was a virile critic (...)

  • Mobile Phones

    2009, author(s)-editor(s) Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Mirjam de Bruijn
    The New Talking Drums of Everyday Africa ’We cannot imagine life now without a mobile phone’ is a frequent comment when Africans are asked about mobile phones. They have become part and parcel of the communication landscape in many urban and rural areas of Africa and the growth of mobile telephony is amazing: from 1 in 50 people being users in 2000 to 1 in 3 in 2008. Such growth is impressive but it does not even begin to tell us about the many ways in which mobile phones are being (...)