[FoME] Buch "African Media, African Children"

[Christoph Dietz]

African Media, African Children  
Editors: Norma Pecora, Enyonam Osei-Hwere, Ulla Carlsson 
Nordicom, 2008, 243 p. - ISBN 978-91-89471-68-9, (Yearbooks) - ISSN 1651-6028 
 
African Media, African Children is the title of the tenth Yearbook of the International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media. Over the years, we have focused attention on a wide range of topics, but this is the first Yearbook with a geographical focus, and a vast continent at that. A focus on Africa seems both timely and important. When issues about children and media are discussed, all too often the frame of reference is the media culture of the Western world. There is an urgent need for the agenda to become open to non-Western thoughts and intercultural approaches to a much higher degree than is the case at present. 

The essays in this volume reflect a wide-range of issues and concerns related to children’s media culture in Africa. For example, several address the role of entertainment television in Addis Abba, Ghana, South Africa, Kenya, and Zambia and in the lives of Muslim children. Other essays introduce us to children-centered media from Ghana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, and the innovative programs of PLAN-International. In addition to entertainment media and children-centered media, media education and digital media literacy are also discussed. 

Contents  

Acknowledgement
Foreword

Firdoze Bulbulia 
Introduction

Enyonam Osei-Hwere, Norma Pecora 
Children’s Media in Sub-Saharan Africa

Francis B. Nyamnjoh 
Children, Media and Globalisation. A Research Agenda for Africa

Charles Owen 
SABC’s Programming for Children

Steve Howard 
Children and Media in Muslim Africa. Senegal, Sudan, Nigeria

Priscilla Boshoff, Jeanne Prinsloo 
Engendering Childhood. Concerning the Content of South African Television Fiction

Tewodros Workalemahu 
Disney Kids. Ethiopian Children’s Reception of a Transnational Media Mogul

Mastin Prinsloo, Marion Walton 
Situated Responses to the Digital Literacies of Electronic Communication in Marginal School Settings

Mimi Brazeau 
Celebrating Youth Media and Proposing a Way Forward

Sarah Akrofi-Quarcoo 
Beyond Child Participation. Tracking Progress of Media Education for Children and Young Persons in Ghana

Christine Mendoza, Rebecca Renard, Steven Goodman 
Drop It to the Youth. Community-Based Youth Video as a Tool for Building Democratic Dialogue in South Africa

Lamees El Baghdady 
Playing at Cyber Space. Perspectives on Egyptian Children’s Digital Socialization

Frederick Nnoma-Addison 
Opportunities, Challenges, & the Way Forward

Patrick V. Osei-Hwere 
Children’s Television Programs in Ghana. The Challenges of Local Production

Beatrice A. Boateng 
Television Broadcasting in South Africa. Mandates to Serving the Children

Juliet Evusa 
Children’s Television in Kenya. The Need for a Comprehensive Media Policy Regulating Children’s Content

Musonda Kapatamoyo 
Children’s Television in Zambia. Local vs. Imported

Wenceslous Kaswoswe 
Television Programming for the Youth in Zimbabwe. Studio 263 and Handspeak