Title: Community Media for Development and Participation: Experiences, Thoughts and Forethoughts
— Twenty-three chapters from five countries — Cyprus, Ghana, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria
— The first compendium of its sort on community communication (especially in Africa)
— 422+ pages
— Edited by: Ayobami Ojebode, PhD, Acting Head, Department of Communication and Language Arts, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
— Published by John Archers Publishers, Nigeria
— Cover price: N2,000 or USD20 (excluding postage)
— For copies, call: Mrs M. O. Babajide: +2348035650781, +2348070523955 or email: ayo.ojebode@gmail.com
About the Book
A collection of debate and report articles on community media and community communication, this book presents experiences, thoughts and forethoughts from Cyprus, Ghana, Kenya, Malaysia and Nigeria. In the first section of the book are found studies of the practice and impact of community media, especially community radio, in Ghanaian and Kenyan communities. The second section presents thoughts on how community media might better serve communities, democracy and development. The third section of the book, that is the forethoughts, focuses on the foreseen or preferred structure, role, funding and management of community radio in Nigeria – a country that is yet to have community radio. In that rather oracular section, contributors look into the future quite counterfactually, imagining and painting the envisioned character of community radio when the Nigerian government finally permits its establishment. The studies and discussions in this book potentially advance the conversations on the role of community media in promoting democracy and development as they affirm, modify or confute some of the known assumptions on the subject.
About the Editor
Ayobami Ojebode holds a PhD in Development Communication from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, where he is currently Senior Lecturer and Acting Head, Department of Communication and Language Arts. His research interest is communication, democracy and development. He has published academic articles in reputable journals, and popular/social commentaries in local and international outlets such as the Radio Netherlands Worldwide where he pioneered the African Going Dutch series. He was at different times a visiting researcher/fellow at the University of Oxford, UK; Pennsylvania State University, USA; University of Leiden, The Netherlands, and at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| PART ONE | ||
| Chapter one | Ayobami Ojebode | Community media, democracy and development in Africa: thirty years after Homa Bay |
| Chapter two | Alex Quarmyne & Wilna Quarmyne | Mapping the Terrains of Community Radio Practice in Africa |
| Chapter three | Holger Briel | The Ethics of Oral History: A Cyprus Story |
| Chapter four | Murtada Busair Ahmad | Community Media and Nigerians in Malaysia: The Paradoxical Tendency of Fragmentation in Globalization |
| Chapter five | Ayobami Ojebode & Kamoru A. Salaudeen | “The Media are of the Devil” –The Karikasa Community and their Disdain for the Media |
| Chapter six |
Olusola Oyero, Segun Joshua, and Remi Aduradola |
Radio And Community Partnership For Mediation And Peace-Building In Africa |
| Chapter seven |
Kitche Magak, Susan M. Kilonzo and Jack Ogembo |
Indigenous Language FM Stations as Community Development Media: the Case of Radio Lake Victoria, Kenya |
| PART TWO | ||
| Chapter eight | Chima Onwukweand Uzoma Okugo | Towards effective development of indigenous languages in Nigeria: community media as the way forward. |
| Chapter nine | Henry C. Duru; Chibuike J. Nwosu & Timothy Onyejelem | Heterogeneity of communal interests…practice of community media |
| Chapter ten | John Galadima & Patience O. Onekutu | The challenge of sustainable funding of rural community media in Nigeria |
| Chapter eleven | Julius-Adeoye ‘Rantimi Jays | Community Radio: Instrument for Good Governance |
| Chapter twelve | Jude Terna Kur & Bernard Bem Melladu | Community radio in a multicultural volatile Nigerian society: fears and promises |
| Chapter thirteen | Babatunde R. Ojebuyi | Media Bias, Ethics, and Normative Limitations: Implications for Survival of Community Radio in Nigeria |
| Chapter fourteen | Omowale Adelabu | Integrating New Media With Community Media For Development: Challenges And Opportunities |
| Chapter fifteen | Patience Onekutu | Community media and development: measuring results |
| PART THREE | ||
| Chapter Sixteen | Tunde Adegbola & Obasanjo Oyedele | Demystifying radio for community use |
| Chapter seventeen | A.R.A Aderinoye and J. O. Ojuade | Community Media and Talking Drum as an Indigenous System of Communication in the 21st Century Africa |
| Chapter eighteen | Ezekiel S. Asemah | The Potentials of Community Radio as a Tool for Conflict Management: a focus on Plateau State, Nigeria |
| Chapter nineteen | Kenneth Asor Tsebee | Independent national electoral commission and problems of voter education: the imperative of community radio |
| Chapter twenty | Louisa B. Andah | Optimising Volunteerism in the Upcoming Community Radio Sub-sector |
| Chapter twenty-one | Michael A. Kombol and John O. Ogi | Proposed strategies for funding community radio in Nigeria |
| Chapter twenty-two | Ngozi D. Morahand Oladokun Omojola | Digital large screens as a community medium:Interactivity and community relevance |
| Chapter twenty-three | E. O. Soola and Roseline Anekwe | Sensitising, conscientising and empowering communities of consumers and producers of multimedia products, through media literacy education |
