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The effects of United States' political communication and the Liberian experience, 1960-1990 : an Afrocentric analysis / Edward Lama Wonkeryor.
LIBRA JK849 .W66 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wonkeryor, Edward Lama.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Government publicity--United States--Case studies.
- Government publicity.
- Communication--Political aspects--Case studies.
- Communication.
- Relations.
- Communication--Political aspects.
- United States--Relations--Liberia.
- United States.
- Liberia--Relations--United States.
- Liberia.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 169 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, [1997]
- Contents:
- The Review of Literature 3
- The Research Design 8
- The Statement of the Problem 9
- A Conceptual Framework 9
- An Afrocentric Framework 11
- Data Collection 13
- Hypotheses 15
- The Specific Projected Treatment of Each Sub-Problem 15
- Reliability and Validity 16
- The Contents of the Book 18
- The Importance of the Study 19
- Limitations 22
- The Definition of Terms 23
- Chapter 1. Liberia: A Background 25
- Economy 30
- Liberia and the United States Friendship 33
- Origin of Liberia and Growth of Government 34
- Rescued Africans 35
- The United States of America 43
- Government 44
- Chapter 2. U.S. Communications Policy Towards Africa 47
- Chapter 3. Beaming to Africa: An Afrocentric Critique of American Communications Policy 63
- African Political Systems 69
- Economic Trends 79
- Chapter 4. Political Communications: The Washington-Monrovia Axis 87
- President John F. Kennedy's African Policy 91
- Thorny Problems in African-American Relations 92
- Factors in Liberia-U.S. Relations 93
- Deterrence and the Campaign of Anti-Communism 96
- Chapter 5. U.S. Propagamda Network: The Case of the Voa 105
- The Postwar Era 110
- The Cold War Period 110
- The VOA Charter 112
- The Charter as Law 112
- Years of Growth 112
- International Communications Agency (I.C.A.) 113
- The Department of State 116
- Liberia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs 118
- The Ministry of Information 119
- Communications Media 119
- Entertainment 121
- Culture 123
- Corporate Communication 125
- Diplomatic Communication 126
- Military Communication 128
- Summary of the U.S. and Liberia Policymakers Based on the Limited Number of Samples 130
- Some Extrapolations of the Theoretical Framework 143
- 1. Political Map of Liberia 167
- 2. Distribution of Major Liberian Ethnic And Language Groups 169.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-160) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0773422102
- OCLC:
- 37221268
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