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Current events, news & mass communications
resources for Africa
African newspapers
For local UF Africanists and other researchers interested in our library collections, a list of African
newspapers that are microfilmed in
the Reprographics unit of
our library's Preservation
Department is available.
If you read African newspapers, you
may find the Electronic
Newspapers of Sub-Saharan Africa -- African Newspapers Union List Project of
particular interest. It is compiled and maintained by Joseph
Caruso at Columbia University's Africana
library and "includes only links to full electronic text newspapers
from Sub-Saharan Africa that are available online without subscription."
A related page is the The Cooperative African Newspapers
Project. The Center for
Research Libraries (CRL) includes an extensive list of hundreds of African
newspapers held at the Cooperative
Africana Microform Project (CAMP) including publication information and holdings. UF
is a CRL/CAMP member, so all of their microfilm can be borrowed by UF faculty and
graduate
students free of charge via Inter-Library Loan.
Also of interest may the
Library of Congress Newspaper
and Current Periodical Reading Room page, 19th
and 20th Century Foreign Newspapers in Original Format ―
Inventory of Volumes Held in Remote Storage, which includes a number of
African titles. "With over 25,000 non-US titles, it is the largest
collection of overseas newspapers in the world."
For those with access to major news databases (e.g. Lexis-Nexis, NewsBank,
ProQuest) don't forget to search these! They increasingly offer material from
African newspapers.
Other sources for African news and current events
Abyz News Links
"Links to over 15,800 newspapers and other news sources from around the world."
There is a good strong section devoted to African
newspapers.
AfricaOnLine
includes articles from African newspapers and magazines.
Africast.com claims that it is
"the most comprehensive and exciting place for news, sports, entertainment,
and financial services relating to the extended global African community."
AllAfrica.com
"Everyday we post the content of more
than 60 African publications -- over 300 stories highlighting politics,
business, sport, and the latest music, book and entertainment news." All
Africa - All the Time. Note: Africa News Service has been subsumed by allAfrica.com
Chimera is an electronic
and print journal published by the USA/Africa
Institute.
BBC World Service
offers two sites based on its morning and evening broadcasts for Africa. Network
Africa and Focus
on Africa.
Mail & Guardian Home Page "Electronic Mail&Guardian
(eM&G) is the electronic media division of the
Mail&Guardian. The company considers the electronic media division to be central to
its long-term plans for growth. The Mail & Guardian was the first paper in Africa to
be available over the Internet-- in early 1994 -- and despite a modest budget and tiny
staff has grown into one of the biggest sites on the continent."
OnlineNewspapers.com has about
fifty countries listed under its Africa section. The number of actual papers
listed for a given country varies, of course.
Karen Fung at Stanford's Hoover Institute has created a list of sources for African Current Events
too. Her Africa South
of the Sahara: selected Internet resources is worth consulting.
Zambia Post has its own Web pages, including an archive of previous issues. These kinds of sources
are likely to increase rapidly over the coming year, so it may be worth searching some of
the general Web indexes to
see if a specific newspaper you are interested in has recently become available.
General news sources
Check with some of the standard US and European sources for their coverage of
international and African news as well. The New York
Times is available, as is the London-based Times. These are free, but
require you to register before using them.
NPR News provides a variety of potentially useful
material. Other primarily radio-based services are also available, such as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Deutsche Welle's
DW-online offers news and audio-on-demand
in 35 languages, including Amharic, Hausa, and Swahili. The popular Yahoo service provides many links to a wide variety
of news, current events, and news index sources. Site searching is available for all or
specific parts of Yahoo, but it is also worth browsing the many more sources available
there than can reasonably be listed here.
You may also want to consider what is available from U.S. government sources.
Transcripts of VOA broadcasts (in various Internet audio
formats with broadcast excerpts in a number of languages) are available for the last seven
days. The African Policy Information Center
(APIC) site also covers issues of policy related to Africa.
The Kiosk "has links to news media all over the world, mainly to newspapers in the
countries' own language(s). The links are validated regularly." Currently lists 29
African countries, often with many more than one newspaper linked to each.
A number of sites, such as The Electronic
Newsstand and CRAYON (for "CReAte Your Own
Newspaper") let you customize the material you would like displayed for your own use.
These services let you return to updates on similar topics again and again.
Sources for professional journalists
- African
Studies Association (ASA) Home Page.
- "With some 2,700 individual and 500 institutional members, the Association is the
leading North American organization promoting African Studies."
- AJR NewsLink
- The American Journalism Review's index to news and other communications sites
includes a
selection of academic resources. Provides
some African news links, including Uganda's Monitor,
and South Africa's Electronic Mail & Guardian.
- American Communication
Association WWW Archives
- "The AMERICAN COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION is the national professional organization
of scholars, students, and practitioners in the field of communication studies. This site
provides information about the ACA, a collection of materials on communication law and
First Amendment issues, resources for teaching and research in communication studies, and
an extensive reference resource page for scholars and activists."
- ANC News
- The ANC provides links to South African news sources.
- APIC
- The Africa Policy Information Center, the educational affiliate of the Washington Office
on Africa, has created an excellent Web site that brings together links to current events,
policy discussions, and other material relevant to African issues. This site is worth
spending some time with, as with the section entitled, Africa on the Internet: Starting Points
for Policy Information, which includes a section on searching the Web via e-mail, a
method many African users must use if they are without a full-Internet connection.
- ARTICLE 19
- "Named after Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, we work
worldwide to combat censorship by promoting freedom of expression and access to
official information."
- Bibliography for Research on
International Human Rights Law
- Provided by the University of Minnesota's Human Rights Library. Includes a page
for the African Human Rights
Resouce Center, African
Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, and related links.
- The Graduate Programme in Cultural & Media Studies
- "Southern African region's premier graduate research and educational unit in media
studies." Prof. Keyan G.
Tomaselli is its director. Also includes a set of relevant links.
- Committee to Protect Journalists
- "The Committee to Protect Journalists is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization
founded in 1981 to monitor and protest abuses against working journalists and their news
organizations, regardless of their ideology or nationality. CPJ is the only organization
in the United States with a full-time staff devoted to documenting and responding to
violations of press freedoms throughout the world." The page links, among other
things, to the Africa section
of their publication.
- The electronic journalist
- An online service of the Society of Professional
Journalists, which "views the Freedom of Information Act as an essential tool for
journalists to do their jobs - and for citizens to use to keep watch on their
government."
- SPJ's Freedom of Information website is
"a complete web of information concerning FOI issues, featuring the a comprehensive
roundup of national FOI news, FOI Alerts and state-by-state FOI news."
- Freedom of the Press
- Ralph E. McCoy's annotated Freedom of the Press bibliography is a database of 8,000
articles.
- FXI Homepage
- "The Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) was formed in January 1994 from a merger
of two organisations involved in campaigning for freedom of expression during the
apartheid years, namely the Campaign for Open
Media (COM) and the Anti-Censorship Action
Group (ACAG). Recently, the FXI also established the Media Defence Fund to sponsor
freedom of expression court cases on behalf of media who are not able to afford the legal
costs. This work is a continuation of work conducted by the now-defunct Media Defence Trust (MDT)."
- Index on Censorship
- Includes the "Index
index" (a listing of country by country censorship cases).
- International Center for Journalists
- The International Center for Journalists is a nonprofit organization established in 1984
for the purpose of sharing advanced media skills and information with journalists and news
organizations around the world. (Formerly known as CFJ, the Center for Foreign
Journalists.)
- International Freedom of Expression
eXchange
- "The nerve-centre of IFEX is the Clearing
House, located in Toronto, Canada and managed by Canadian
Journalists for Free Expression. The Clearing House helps coordinate the
work of IFEX members, reducing overlap among our activities and making us
more effective in our shared objectives."
- International Press Institute
- "The latest news from the International Press Institute, the global network of
journalists, editors and media executives, dedicated to freedom of the press and improving
the standards and practises of journalism."
- Reporters Sans Frontières- Accueil-VA
- "Reporters Sans Frontières, which has branches or members in more than 80
countries, is an independent organisation that defends the freedom to inform and to be
informed."
- "Shooting the Messenger: the media,
ethnicity and political violence in Africa"
- A speech delivered at the Annual General Meeting of the Freedom
of Expression Institute, Johannesburg, 23 May 1996. Richard Carver, Africa Director,
ARTICLE 19 (the International Centre Against Censorship)
- UN Commission on
Human Rights Thematic Reports - Independence of judges and lawyers
- Report of the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and
lawyers.
- World Association of Newspapers
- "The Paris-based WAN,
the global organisation for the newspaper industry, represents 15,000
newspapers world-wide; its membership includes 66 national newspaper
associations, individual newspaper executives in 93 countries, 17 news
agencies and seven regional press groups."
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