"Oramedia" or Traditional Media as Effective Communication Options for Rural Development in Africa

Frank Ugboajah

doi:10.5771/0010-3497-1982-3-211

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- 167–192 Der Bildschirm als Familienmitglied: Über die Wechselwirkung von Fernsehen und familialer Kommunikation Rainald Merkert Rainald Merkert 167–192
- 193–203 Wie erreichen die Kirchen den einzelnen? Überlegungen zu einer missionarischen Aufgabe Henk Hoekstra Henk Hoekstra 193–203
- 211–221 "Oramedia" or Traditional Media as Effective Communication Options for Rural Development in Africa Frank Ugboajah Frank Ugboajah 211–221
- 222–258 Berichte - Dokumentationen - Chronik Hans Ott, Anton Täubl, Martin Gertler, Josef Hosse Hans Ott, Anton Täubl, Martin Gertler, Josef Hosse 222–258
- 259–266 Die Literaturrundschau E. Geretschlaeger, Franz-Josef Eilers, H. Prakke, R. Merkert E. Geretschlaeger, Franz-Josef Eilers, H. Prakke, R. Merkert 259–266
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Communicatio Socialis (ComSoc) , page 211 - 221

"Oramedia" or Traditional Media as Effective Communication Options for Rural Development in Africa

Autoren

Frank Ugboajah

DOI
- doi.org/10.5771/0010-3497-1982-3-211
- ISSN: 0010-3497
- ISSN online: 2198-3852
Zusammenfassung

There is often controversy even among Africans interested in the subject, on the best way to define and what to include in "Oramedia" or traditional/folk media. Perhaps the way to illustrate symbolically what folk media are is to take the way the African villager often explains hirnself teil a story: A British Governor once sat on the stool of the Kingof Ashanti as a way of communicating his authority as the representative of Queen Victoria of England. But the significance of the stool in the mind of the people of Ashanti was reverence, as being not an appurtenance of the kingly office, but that of an embodiment of the nation's soul. They were insulted. They were provoked. They went home and prepared for war! (...)
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