Contents: Preface / Carn Gösta Widstrand -- The mass media in Africa and Africa in the international mass media – an introduction / Olav Stokke -- Part one: Mass Media in Africa -- The mass media – institutions of the African political systems / Colin Legum -- Editing a government newspaper in Nigeria / Mamman Daura -- Freedom of expression in a government newspaper in Ghana / Eddie Afyemang -- Press freedom in Kenya / George Githii -- Mass communication in Africa – Freedoms and functions / Olav Stokke -- Part two: Reporting Africa by the international mass media -- The problem of cultural translation in the reporting of African social realities / Ulf Himmelstrand -- The British mass media / David Williams -- The French mass media / Ahmed Baba Miské -- The North American mass media / Clyde Sanger -- The Soviet and Czechoslovak press / Ladislav Venyš -- The Nordic television services -- The Danish broadcasting corporation / Jörgen Flindt Pedersen -- The Finnish broadcasting company / Yrjö Länsipuro -- The Norwegian broadcasting corporation / Knut Sogstad -- The Swedish broadcasting corporation / Bo Bjelfvenstam -- Some problems confronting a correspondent specializing in reporting Africa / Colin Legum -- Contributors -- List of participants in the seminar -- List of abbreviations