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Angola AMDI research report | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Authors: Cândido Mendes and Barnaby Smith
Media growth in Angola has been constrained during the past five years due to state-domination of the sector. The legal-regulatory framework also discourages much-needed private investment. While a new era of peace and reconciliation seems to offer potential for growth in the private sector, the government’s refusal to allow any significant, truly independent media to flourish is problematic. Standards of professionalism in the country are low and bribes are commonplace. Furthermore, there are a lack of resources and adequate journalist training opportunities that would otherwise contribute to improving ethics and the quality of reporting. The result is an absence of knowledge among the Angolan people of their rights, and of the need for media safeguards to protect them in their relationship with the state. Case study: Rádio Ecclésia Rádio Ecclésia was established by the Bishops Conference of Angola and São Tomé in 1954, initially transmitting within the Luanda area only. However, in 1977 the Angolan Government, viewing it as an opposition force, closed the station and forced many of its employees to flee the country. Since its re-inauguration in 1997, Rádio Ecclésia has played a fundamental role within civil society, providing an otherwise unavailable space for citizens to criticise the government and discuss the multifaceted local and national issues affecting the Angolan people. About the research team Contact for this report Cândido Mendes Contact for the African Media Research project About PDF documents Most computers will open PDF documents automatically, but you may need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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