[ecrea] Book from Nordicom African Media, African Children

Yearbook 2008 from the International 
Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media

African Media, African Children. Editors: Norma 
Pecora, Enyonam Osei-Hwere and Ulla Carlsson,
Nordicom, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, 
2008, 243 p., ISBN 978-91-89471-68-9, Price ? 25


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.

For further information see <http://www.nordicom.gu.se/>www.nordicom.gu.se


Best regards,


Ulla Carlsson
Director
The International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media
Nordicom