Ebrima,
A very thoght-provoking paper that has a lot of insight. I hope we will all
learn something from it.
Thanks and bye 4Now, KB Jobe.
>
>
>----Original Message Follows----
>From: ebrima ceesay <[log in to unmask]>
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> ><[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Contrasting the African and Western Media
>Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 05:28:35 -0500
>
>Gambia-L:
>
>We had a seminar, a few weeks ago, at Birmingham University, focusing >on
>the
>African media. Three papers were discussed. I presented the first >paper,
>followed by Safiyya Aliyu-Abdullah, a Nigerian journalist, and the >final
>presentation came from Baffour Ankomah, the Ghanaian born editor in >chief
>of
>the well respected London based New African Magazine, who had the task >to
>contrast the African and the Western media.
>
>Baffour Ankomah's paper, I have to say, was controversial and in fact
>provoked intense debate among the audience.
>
>Many in the audience agreed that he had indeed identified the >problems, as
>it were, vis-a-vis the African and the western media, but debated him
>intensely, over some of his conclusions/prescriptions. Anyway, he sent >me
>his paper yesterday, for our internal publication here, but I thought I
>should also forward it to the L, in the hope that some of you might >find
>it
>useful.
>
>Enjoy reading the brother's thought-provoking paper, reproduced below.
>
>Ebrima Ceesay
>Birmingham, UK
>
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