books.google.ca - This major study explores the role of the mass media in promoting democracy and empowering civil society in Africa. The author contextualizes Africa within in the rapidly changing global media and shows how patterns of media ownership and state control have evolved and the huge difficulties under which...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Africa_s_Media.html?id=0Tr6EUTxQWYC&q=Messager&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareAfrica's Media