Editorial Advisory Board Prof. Paul Ansah Dr. Cecil Blake Prof Cees Hamelink Dr. Alan hancock Dr. Hugues Kone Mr. Reinhard Kuene Prof. Ali Mazrui Dr. Joseph Mbindyo Prof. R L. Nwafo Nwako Prof. James Scotton - School of Communication Studies University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana - Information Sciences Division, IDRC Regional Office for Eastern and Southern Africa, Nairobi. Kenya - Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands - PROCEED,UNESCO, Paris, France - CERCOM, Universite d'Abidjan, Cote d'lvoire - Media & Communications Department, FES, Bonn, Germany - Centre for Afro-American & African Studies, Univeristy of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.SA. - School of Journalism, University of Nairobi, Kenya - Department of Mass Communication Arts and Sciences, Howard University, Washington DC. U.S.A. - College of Journalism, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A. We acknowledge the financial assistance of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in publishing this issue. 87 Notes For Authors Africa Media Review (AMR) addresses itself to those interested In communication development in Africa with special reference to the impact of communication on Africa and its people. The Editorial Board welcomes well-researched, scholarly articles, book reviews and other contributions in all areas of communication for possible publication in AMR. Manuscripts should not exceed 8000 words (about 20 pages, including notes and references), and book reviews should not exceed 2000 words (about 5 pages). They should be typed, double-spaced on A4 white paper. Three copies of each article and review should be submitted. The first page of the manuscript should provide the title of the paper, full name(s) of author(s), identification (position and institutional and/or other affiliation) and complete mailing address(es) of the author(s). 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"Broadcasting and Multilingualism'. In George Wedell (Ed.), Making Broadcasting Useful The African Experience. Manchester University Press, pp.47-65. Kasoma, Francis P. (1986). The Press in Zambia. Lusaka: Multi- media Publications. Ugboajah, Frank O. (1986). "Communication as Technology in African Rural Development1. Africa Media Review, Vol. l.No. 1. pp. 1-19. 88 Quotations in the body of the text should be in double quotes. Quotations of six lines or more should be indented and typed single space with no quotation marks. Title and sub-titles in the article should be in upper and lower cases. llustriattons All illustations should be clearly drawn in dark ink and large enough for printing reduction purposes. All charts, maps and diagrams should be referred to as Fig., and should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they are presented in the text. They should be put at the end of the text with indications in the text as to where they would be placed. 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