Review by Choice Review
Once one gets beyond the editors' introductory hyperbole ("... a historic volume ... a step forward from intellectual colonization"), this first book on journalism and mass communication in Cameroon turns out to be modest but useful. The several contributors focus on public empowerment, television production and aesthetics, public relations practice, advertising, book publishing, and research methods in general (not, regrettably, on media research specifically in Cameroon). Also missing is any real sense of what it is that journalists write about, what books are being published, and what is produced on the radio and television. A considerable number of books and articles about the country have been published outside of Cameroon--particularly in France, Germany, and the US--and this reviewer would have appreciated a sense of who, what, when, where, and what kind, since a good deal of this (particularly the French-language material) is in fact consumed in Cameroon itself and must obviously affect Cameroonian book and journal production. Graduate and research collections. V. T. Le Vine Washington University
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Review by Choice Review
