His Master's Voice: Mass Communication and Single Party Politics in Guinea Under Sékou Touré

From: African Studies Review | Date: December 1, 2006| Author: Schmidt, Elizabeth | Copyright information

MEDIA Mohamed Saliou Camara. His Master's Voice: Mass Communication and Single Party Politics in Guinea Under Sékou Touré. Trenton, NJ.: Africa World Press, 2005. xvi +217 pp. Index. $24.95. Paper.

Focusing on party politics and mass communication in Guinea, this book examines the regime of the Parti Démocratique de Guinée (PDG), which led Guinea to independence in 1958 and governed the country until it was overthrown by a military coup in 1984. Camara posits that the PDG and its c...

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