Literature Database on Gender in Subsahara Africa

Adagala, Esther / Kiai, Wambui (1994): Folk, interpersonal and mass media, The experience of women in Africa, in: Gallagher, Margaret / Quindoza-Santiago, Lilia (eds.): Women empowering communication, A resource book on women and globalization of media, Women’s International Tribune Centre, Washington, D.C., pp. 11-35. [6500]

Adja, Olive (ed.) (2005): Women and information in Africa, Sage Publications, London. [6501]

Arndt, Susan / Breitinger, Eckhard / von Brisinski, Marek Spitzcok (eds.) (2007): Theatre, performance and new media in Africa, Bayreuth African Studies, Bayreuth. [6502]

Buskens, Ineke / Webb, Anne (eds.) (2009): African women and ICTs, Investigating technology, gender and empowerment, Zed Books, London. [6503]

Dralega, Azungi Carol (ed.) (2016): Media, capacity building and gender party, Why we shouldn’t look away, in: Journal of African Media Studies, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 247-249. [6504]

Gadzekpo, Audrey (2009): Missing links, African media studies and feminist concerns, in: Journal of African Medica Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 69-80. [6505]

Gadzekpo, Audrey (eds.) (2013): Special issue on gender and media, in: African Media Review. [6509]

Harrow, Kenneth (ed.) (1997): With open eyes, Women and African cinema, Matatu, vol. 19, Rodipi Publishers, Amsterdam. [6506]

Jay, Mary / Kelly, Susan (eds.) (2002): Courage and consequences, Women publishing in Africa, London. [6507]

Kitetu, Catherine Wawasi (ed.) (2008): Gender, science and technology, Perspectives from Africa, Codesria, Dakar. [6508]

Morna, Lowe Colleen / Khan, Zohra (2002): Net gains, African women take stoke of ICTs, Women’s Inc., New York. [6510]

Morna, Lowe Colleen / Khan, Zohra (2006): The Southern Africa Media Diversity Journal, vol. 2, Gender Links, Johannesburg. [6511]

Ochieng, Ruth (2002): Information and communication technologies as a tool for women’s empowerment and social transformation in Africa, in: Feminist Africa, no. 1, pp. 108-115. [6512]

Ouzgane, Lahoucine / Okome, Onookome (2007): Men and masculinities in African film and fiction, James Currey Publishers, Oxford. [6513]

Prah, Kwesi (ed.) (1991): Culture, gender, science and technology in Africa, Harp Publications, Windhoek. [6514]

Radloff, Jennifer (2005): Claiming cyperspace, Communication and networking for social change and women’s empowerment, in: Feminist Africa, no. 4, pp. 85-98. [6515]

Rathgeber, Eva M. (2000): Gender and the information revolution in Africa, Women`s Inc, New York. [6516]

Somolu, Oreoluwu (2007): ‘Telling our true stories’, African women blogging for social change, in: Gender and Development, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 477-489. [6517]

Stamp, Patricia (1989): Technology, Gender and Power in Africa, Ottawa, International Development Centre. [6518]

Veney, Rachel Cassandra / Zeleza, Paul Tiyambe (eds.) (2001): Women in African studies scholary publishing, Africa World Press, Trenton. [6519]

Wanyeki, Muthoni (2005): The African Women’s Development and Communication Network, Experiences of feminist continental organising, in: Feminist Africa, vol. 4, pp. 105-115. [6520]

Yacob-Haliso / Falola, Toyin (eds.) (2020): Palgrave Handbook of African women´s studies, Palgrave, London [12255]

Zerai, Assata (2019): African women, ICT and neoliberal politics, The challenge of gendered digital divides to people-centred governane, Routledge, London. [6521]

Zuiderveld, Maria (2011): ‘Hitting the glass ceiling’, in: Gender and media management in Sub-Saharan Africa, in: Journal of African Media Studies, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 401-415. [6522]

Buhle, Mbambo (2002): Using of the internet in SEM’s, A case study of female small textile entrepreneurs in Botswana, in: African Development Perspectives Yearbook, 9, 2002-2003, pp. 617-621. [6523]

Mnubi, Chiku Mchombu (2000): Information needs of owmen in small business in Botswana, in: International Information and Libraray Review, vol. 32, 1, pp. 39-67. [6524]

Perry, Susan (2004): Resolving conflict through solar-powered radio in Chad, in: Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 29, pp. 561-568. [6525]

Bouwer, Karen (2010): Gender and decolonization in the Congo, Lumumba’s legacy in literature and film, Palgrave, London. [6526]

Braun, Lesley Nicole (2015): Cyber Siren, What Mami Wata reveals about the Internet and Chinese presence in Kinshasa, in: Canadian Journal of African Studies, vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 301-318. [11659]

Garcia-Mingo, Elisa (2017): Mamas in the newsroom, Women’s journalism against sexual violence in Eastern Congo, in: Journal of African Media Studie, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 215-227. [6527]

Valente, Thomas / Kim, Young Mi / Lettenmaier, Cheryl / Glass, William (1994): Radio promotion of family planning in the Gambia, in: International Family Planning Perspectives, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 96-104. [6528]

Collins, John (2003): Ghanaian women enter into popular entertainment, in: Humanities, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 1-10. [6529]

Gadzekpo, Audrey (2001): Gender discourses and representational practices in Gold Coast newspapers, in: Jenda: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies, Volume 1, no. 2. [6531]

Geoffrion, Karine (2018): Homosexuality and religious fundamentalis in the Ghanaian mediascape, Clashes between an ‘un-godly’ concept and lived practices, in: Gender and Fundamentalism, CODESRIA, Dakar pp. 269-288. [6530]

McKay, Blythe (2005): Fishers and radios, A case study of radio Ada in Ghana, in: Crummings, Sarah / van Dam, Henk / Valk, Minke (eds.): Gender and ICT for development, A global sourcebook, Publications of the Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, pp. 45-50. [6532]

Achinger, G. (1998): Frauen, Medien und Emanzipation, Pakistan, Guinea-Bissau und Kap Verde im Kulturvergleich, IKO-Verlag, Frankfurt a.M. [6533]

Gakahu, Nancy / Mukhongo, Lynette Lusike (2007): Women’s pages in Kenya’s newspapers, Implications for the country’ development, in: Gender and Development, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 425-434. [6534]

Ligag, Dina (2020): Women visibility, and morality in Kenyan popular media, NISC, African Books Collective, Oxford. [6535]

Ligaga, Dina (2020): Women, visibility and morality in Kenyan popula media, NISC, Grahamstown/Makhanda. [11922]

Ligaga, Dina (2016): Presence, agency and popularity: Kenyan “socialites”, femininities and digital media”, in: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies, vol. 2, no. 3–4, pp. 111–123. [12188]

Ligaga, Dina (2017): Thinking around Genre, The moral narrative and femininity in Kenyan popular media, in: The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, 4, 2, pp 222–236. [12189]

Mwangi, Evan (1998): Queer agency in Kenya’s digital media, in: African Studies Review, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 93-113. [6536]

Okech, Awino (2009): Feminist digital counterpublics: Challenging femicide in Kenya and South Africa, in: Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 46, 4, pp. 1013-1030. [12217]

Steevens, Leslie (1997): Gender violence and the press, the St.Kizito story, Ohio University Press, Ohio. [6537]

Westhoff, Charles (1995): The mass media and family planning in Kenya, in: International Family Planning Perspectives, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 26-31. [6538]

Worthington, Nancy (1995): Classifying Kenyan women, Press representation of gender in Nairobi ‘daily nation’, in: Women’s Studies in Communication, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 65-84. [6539]

Chilimanpunga, Charles (1999): The denigration of women in Malawian radio commercials, in: Gender and Development, vol. 7 pp. 71-78. [6540]

Schulz, Dorothea (1999): Territorial displacement and moral relocation, Voices and images of women in televised ladili performances in Mali, Sozialanthropologische Arbeitspapiere, Nr. 80, FU-Berlin, Berlin. [6541]

Schulz, Dorothea (2001): Music videos and the effeminate vices of urban culture in Mali, in: Africa, vol. 73, no. 3, pp. 365-371. [6542]

Schulz, Dorothea (2002): The world is made by talk: Female youth culture, pop music consumption, and mass-mediated forms of sociality in urban Mali, in: Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines, vol. 42, no. 4 (168). [6543]

Schulz, Dorothea (2004): Women pop singers and broadcast media in Mali, in: Peek, Philip (ed.): African folklore: An encyclopedia, Routledge, New York, pp. 515-517. [6544]

Nghidininwa, Maria M. (2008): Women journalists in Namibia’s liberation struggle, 1985-1990, Basler Afrika Bibliograhien, Basel. [6545]

Rasmussen, Susan (2003): Gendered discourse and mediated modernities, Urban and rural performances of Tuareg smith women, in: Journal of Anthropological Research, vol. 59, no. 3, pp. 487-509. [6546]

Anugwom, Edlyne (2007): Stuck in the middle, Women, ICTs and the struggle for survival in the oil degraded Niger Delta environment, Nigeria, vol. 72, pp. 58-68. [6547]

Bankole, Akinrinola (1996): Mass media messages and reproductive behaviour in Nigeria, in: Journal of Biosocial Science, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 227-239. [6548]

Eboh, E.C. (1993): A household survey of farm women's access to agro-information and technology: Implications for extension training and rural development in Nigeria, in: Journal of Rural Development and Administration, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 1-22 [6549]

Emenyeonu, N.B. (1991): Motivation for choice of course and career preferences of Nigerian female journalism students: Implications for the status of media women in a developing nation, in: Africa Media Review, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 71-83. [6550]

Lyons, Harriet (1990): Nigerian television and the problems of urban African women, in: Arnold, Stephen et al. (eds.): Culture and development in Africa, Africa World Press, Trenton, pp. 107-118. [6551]

Ogundipe-Leslie, Molara (1990): The image of women and the role of the media in a new political culture in Nigeria, in: Africa Media Review, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 52-59. [6552]

Ogunleye, Foluke (2003): Female stereotypes in the Nigerian video film: A case for re-socialization, in: Humanities Review Journal, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 1-14. [6553]

Okunna, Chinyere (1992): Sources of development information among rural women in Nigeria: A case study, in: Africa Media Review, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 65-77. [6554]

Okunna, Chinyere (1996): Portrayal of women in Nigerian home video films: Empowerment of subjugation? in: Africa Media Review, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 21-36. [6555]

Renne, Elisha (1993): Condome use and the popular press in Nigeria, in: Health Transition Review, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 41-56. [6556]

Yusuf, Hadjia (1991): Mass media, women and politics, in: Chizea, Dora / Yusuf, Hadjia: Mass media, women and politics, in: Chizea, Dora / Njoku, Juliet (eds.): Nigerian women and the challenges of our time, in: Malthouse Press, Lagos. [6557]

Abdela, Lesley (2007): ‘Anyone here been raped and speaks English? Workshop for editors and journalists on gender based violence and sex-trafficing, in: Gender and Development, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 387-398. [6558]

Mushengyezi, Aaron (2004): Reimaging gender and African tradition? Ousmane Sembène’s Xala revisited, in: Africa Today, vol. 51, no. 1. [6559]

Venables, Emilie (2008): Senegalese women and the cyber café: Online dating and aspirations of transnational migration in Ziguinchor, in: African and Asian Studies, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 471-490. [6560]

Wittmann, Frank (2003): Zur Ambivalenz des Populärjournalismus in Senegal, Strategische Aneignung und mediale Repräsentation der Hausmädchen, in: Afrika Spectrum, 38, 2, pp. 153-172. [6561]

African Training and Research Centre for Women (ECA) (1985): Women and the mass media in Africa: case studies of Sierra Leone, the Niger and Egypt / in: Women and development in Africa Journal of Eastern African Research and Development, 15, pp. 198-221 [6562]

Wambui, Mercy (2005): Development through radio, A case study of Sierra Leone, in: Crummings, Sarah / van Dam, Henk / Valk, Minke (eds.): Gender and ICT for development, A global sourcebook, Publications of the Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, pp. 51-60. [6563]

Driver, Dorothy (1996): Drum magazine (1951-59) and the spatial configurations of gender, in: Darian-Smith, K. / Gunner, L. / Nuttal, S. (eds.): Text, theory, space: Land, literature and history in South Africa and Australia, Routledge Publishers, London, pp. 231-242. [12333]

Gehrmann, Susanne (2018): Remidiating romance, Forms and functions of new media in contemporary love stories fom Togo and South Africa, in: Africa Today, vol. 65, no. 1, pp. 64-84. [6564]

Lediga, Karabo / Overland, Lene (eds.) (2004): Youth fighting gender violence in and through the media, Media Watch Publications, Cape Town. [6565]

Lowe Morna, Coleen (2004): The ‘I’ stories, Speaking out on gender violence in Southern Africa, Gender Links, Johannesburg. [6566]

Lowe Morna, Coleen (2007): Making every voice count, A Southern African case study, in: Gender and Development, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 369-385. [6567]

Lowe Morna, Coleen / Overland, Lene (2002): Getting smart, Strategic communication for gender activists in South Africa, Gender Links / Women’s Media Watch, Johannesburg / Cape Town. [6568]

Nakana, Steven / Overland, Lene (2001): ‘Under one roof’, Gender, Media and democracy, Gender training manual for media activists, Women`s Media Watch, Cape Town. [6569]

Naughton, Tracey (1996): Community radio: A voice for the voiceless, in: Agenda, no. 31, pp. 12-18. [6570]

Okech, Awino (2009): Feminist digital counterpublics: Challenging femicide in Kenya and South Africa, in: Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 46, 4, pp. 1013-1030. [12218]

Overland, Lene (2004): Monitoring HIV/AIDS reporting through the gender lens, Media Watch Publications, Cape Town. [6571]

Sehoole, Trevor Chika / Moja, Teboho (2003): Pedagogical issues and gender in cyberspace education, Distance education in South Africa, in: African and Asian Studies, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 475-496. [6572]

Smith, Gail (1996): Madame and eve, A caricature of black women´s subjectivity? in: Agenda, vol. 31, pp. 33-39. [12331]

Talmor, Ruti (2013): From the margins you push so that the centre implodes, Queer media in South Africa, in: GLQ, a Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 383-403. [11756]

South Sudan Democratic Engagement, Monitoring and Observation Programme (SSuDEMO (2016): SOUTH SUDAN NATIONAL WOMEN’S STRATEGY, Juba. [12102]

Rogers, Everett / Vaughan, Peter et al. (1999): Effects of an entertainment-education radio soap opera on family planning behaviour in Tanzania, in: Studies in Family Planning, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 193-211. [6573]

Gehrmann, Susanne (2018): Remidiating romance, Forms and functions of new media in contemporary love stories fom Togo and South Africa, in: Africa Today, vol. 65, no. 1, pp. 64-84. [6574]

Ntabasuta Mugambi, H. (1994): Intersections, Gender, orality, text, and female space in contemporary Kiganda radio songs, in: Research in African Literatures, vol. 25, no. 3. [6575]

Hove, Elizabeth (2017): ‘Of witches, babes, and wife bashers, Images of gender in Zimbabwean tabloids, in: Journal of African Media Studies, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 163-179. [6576]