Apart from describing the shortage of mobile phones, the report indicates that growth in mobile phone usage is concentrated in urban areas and is "creating a widening communication gap between rural and urban communities."
O'Gorman, Melanie (author / University of Toronto) and Centre for the Study of African Economics, Oxford, UK
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
2006-07-20
Published:
United Kingdom
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28215
Notes:
Posted online at http://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/conferences/2007-EDiA-LaWBiDC/papers/295-OGorman.pdf, Presented at the "Economic development in Africa" conference from March 18-20, 2007 at Oxford University.
"These talented writers are about to embark on 14 wholly different and fascinating itineraries, from exploring ancient scrolls in Timbuktu, to the Anglican Church in Uganda, to Somaliland's elections, to name a few," says Tom Burke, the Achebe Center program manager. "It is a landmark project, and our partners - large and small - across the continent have lent enthusiasm and support. It's an exciting time to watch these pilgrimages unfold, and it will be quite something to read these books once their pages are written."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title Details:
2 discs. 33 1/3 rpm. mono. 12 in;
Notes:
An anthology of drumming from the continent of Africa, from South America, the West Indies and North America. Contains drum rhythms from the Bahamas, Brazil, Congo, Cuba, Equatorial Africa, Haiti, Jamaica, Madagascar, Nigeria, Puerto Rico, Ruanda, South Africa, Surinam, United States, and the Virgin Islands.; Title on container of disc 2: Afro-American drums.; Disc 1: Ruanda - The watutsi -- Ruanda - The watutsi -- French Equatorial Africa - The baya -- French Equatorial Africa - The badouma -- Nigeria - The yoruba -- Nigeria - The yoruba -- Belgian Congo - The bambala -- Belgian Congo - The bambala -- South Africa - The zingili -- Madagascar - The mahafaly. Disc 2: The Bahamas - Jumping dance drums -- Cuba - Djuka dance drums -- Cuba - Lucumi drums -- Haiti - Quitta seche dance drums -- Haiti - Juba dance drumming -- Jamaica - Camina drums -- Brazil - Drum rhythms for the deity Eshu -- Brazil - Drum rhythms for the deity Ogoun -- Virgin Islands - Bamboula dance drums -- Surinam - Djuka drums -- United States - Jazz drumming -- United States - Street band drumming.; Played by native musicians.; Recorded in various places by Leo Verwilghen, André Didier, Moses Asch, Melville J. Herskovits, and others.;
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
214 p, "Examines the historical novel that has emerged in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean since the late 1930s and includes such writers as Edouard Glissant of Martinique and Paul Hazoumé of Benin." (Amazon.com)
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22091
Notes:
Pages 175-183 in Charles Okigbo and Festus Eribo (eds.), Development and communication in Africa. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham, Maryland. 249 pages.
