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Title: | The Feedback Phenomenon in the Cameroonian Press, 1990-1993 |
Author: | Akwa, Christiane Dika Nsangue |
Year: | 2004 |
Periodical: | Africa Today |
Volume: | 51 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | Fall |
Pages: | 85-97 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Cameroon |
Subjects: | press Literature, Mass Media and the Press |
External link: | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/africa_today/v051/51.1akwa.pdf |
Abstract: | The Cameroonian private press (as opposed to the public press, which reflects the ideologies of the ruling government) had an important role as instigator as well as stimulus in the fight for democratic change in Cameroon. This paper examines the mechanism of feedback, understood as the return of information or exchange of communication, between selected Cameroonian (French-language) private newspapers and those who read them. Since the end of the 1980s, 'Le Messager', 'La Nouvelle Expression' and 'Dikalo' have at once been the instigators and the leaders of the Cameroonian press. From 1990 to 1993 they carried information on events in reaction to which their readers voiced their opinions by writing letters (direct feedback) or by expressing themselves in physical ways, for example through demonstrations and strikes (indirect feedback). The paper is based on an analysis of a sample of 100 people in Douala and research on the written press in Cameroon. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract] |