Editorials
Editorial
Whose news? Control of the media in Africa
Anita Franklin & Roy Love
Original Articles
The contradictions of broadcasting reform in post‐apartheid South Africa
Clive Barnett
Reform or re‐colonisation? the overhaul of African television
Chris A. Paterson
Journalism & armed conflict in Africa: the civil war in Sierra Leone
Amadu Wurie Khan
Media & democracy in Southern Africa
Guy Berger
Rwanda & the media: imagery, war & refuge
Niranjan S Karnik
Burkina Faso in the winds of liberalisation
Ernest Harsch
Debate
Radicalism, relevance & the future of ROAPE
Giles Mohan & Bonnie Campbell
Briefings
The national institute of studies & research of Guinea‐Bissau endangered by war/O Institituto nacional de estudos e pesquisa da guine‐bissau posto em perigo pela guerra
Peter Mendy
Miscellany
Greed or need? Genetically modified crops
Examining myths of a democratic media
Patricia McFadden
The Africa centre in London
Anthony Acheampong
Yemen & Eritrea: friends once more?
Martin Plaut
Books received
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