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TABLE OF CONTENT

1. THE USE OF A RADIO INDIGENOUS PUBLIC ENLIGHTENMENT PROGRAMME TO PROMOTE DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA
2. AFRICA: PUBLICS, POPULAR CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT
3. AFRICAN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT
4. AFRICAN POPULAR CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION FOR DEVELOPMENT
5. EXTRA-MUNDANE BOTTOM-UP COMMUNICATION: CEREMONY AS A CHANNEL
6. EXTRA-MUNDANE BOTTOM-UP COMMUNICATION: DEFINITION AND SOME CHANNELS (DIVINATION AND ANCESTRAL WORSHIP)
7. INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE, MASS MEDIA AND INFORMATION DISSEMINATION
8. INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE, PIDGIN ENGLISH, MASS MEDIA AND INFORMATION DISSEMINATION
9. INSTITUTIONAL CHANNELS OF COMMUNICATION AND THE COMMUNICATION PATTERNS OF TRADITIONAL AUTHORITIES\ SOCIO-POLITICAL ORGANISATIONS
10. MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION FOR DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA - PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES
11. TOP-DOWN COMMUNICATION: SOME EXAMPLES OF EXTRA-MUNDANE AND NATURAL PHENOMENA
12. VERBAL COMMUNICATION, MASS MEDIA AND INFORMATION DISSEMINATION IN AFRICA
13. BOTTOM-UP COMMUNICATION-A SURVEY OF FESTIVALS IN NIGERIA
14. FOLKLORES - A SURVEY
15. FOLKMEDIA: FOLKLORE, PROVERBS AND PARABLES
16. LEGENDS AND FEATURES
17. MYTHS AND LEGENDS
18. NAMES IN AFRICA: HISTORY AND TYPES
19. PROVERBS AND PARABLES
20. RESEARCHES INTO AFRICAN POPULAR CULTURE AND THE MASS MEDIA
21. VENUE-ORIENTED CHANNELS OF COMMUNICATION

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