La Semaine Africaine

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La Semaine Africaine
Type Weekly newspaper
Founded1952;73 years ago (1952)
LanguageFrench
City Brazzaville
CountryRepublic of the Congo
ISSN 0488-2024
Website lasemaineafricaine.info

La Semaine Africaine is a French-language newspaper published in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, and serving Central Africa. [1] La Semaine is owned by the Roman Catholic Episcopal Conference of the Congo, but maintains editorial independence. [2] Founded in 1952 as La Semaine de l'AEF, it received its present title in 1960, when the Republic of the Congo gained independence from France. [1] [3] : 252  Between 1963 and 1990, it was the only media outlet in the Republic of the Congo not controlled by the state. [4] In 1970, its circulation was greater than 10,000. [5] As of 2023, it is published twice a week. [6] Contributing writers have included Sylvain Bemba  [ fr ], [7] Emmanuel Damongo-Dadet, [3] : 228  and Jean Clotaire Hymboud. [8]

References

  1. 1 2 Guth, Suzie (1 October 2002). "L'École au Congo-Brazzaville vue par La Semaine Africaine (1989-1999)". Cahiers de la recherche sur l'éducation et les savoirs (in French) (1): 201–222. ISSN   1635-3544.
  2. ↑ Diamouangana, Gilles Alain. Vie et mort des médias au Congo-Brazzaville (1989-2006): contribution de La Semaine Africaine à l'émergence d'un espace public (Thesis) (in French). Université Michel de Montaigne - Bordeaux III.
  3. 1 2 Martin, Phyllis (1995). Leisure and Society in Colonial Brazzaville. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-0-521-52446-9.
  4. ↑ Minkala-Ntadi, Pierre (5 January 2012). "La presse congolaise dans la tourmente politique : l'illustration d'une tension entre liberté d'expression et responsabilité sociale". Quaderni. Communication, Technologies, Pouvoir (in French) (77): 113–120. doi: 10.4000/quaderni.569 . ISSN   2105-2956.
  5. ↑ McDonald, Gordon C. (1971). "Public Information, Education, and Artistic and Intellectual Expression". Area Handbook for People's Republic of the Congo (Congo Brazzaville). U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 123.
  6. ↑ Carter, Erin Baggott; Carter, Brett L. (2023). "1.1.1 Propaganda as Persuasion: The Republic of Congo". Propaganda in Autocracies: Institutions, Information, and the Politics of Belief. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 5. ISBN   9781009271226 . Retrieved 4 February 2025.
  7. ↑ Oxley, Shannon (8 December 2011). "Bemba, Sylvain Ntari". Oxford African American Studies Center. doi:10.1093/acref/9780195301731.013.48403. ISBN   9780195301731.
  8. ↑ Clark, Phyllis; Hymboud, Jean Clotaire (1998). "Sony Labou Tansi and Congolese Politics: An Interview with Jean Clotaire Hymboud". Research in African Literatures. 29 (2): 183–192. ISSN   0034-5210. JSTOR   3820729.

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