Public Relations in Africa

This blog is created as a teamwork for a course called Development of Public Relations Processes at the University of Jyväskylä, and it focuses on PR processes and history in Africa, more specifically on Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya and South Africa

27 November 2009

Final Presentation

This is our presentation: PR in Africa

24 November 2009

Blogging as a learning experience

As a first-time-blogger I have gained a totally new experience. When we started I had no idea where this process would lead. I learned that ...

23 November 2009

Lessons Learnt

Like Tiiu, I also felt somewhat dumbfounded when I first heard our group’s topic. Surely there was nothing written about PR in Africa – or e...

Last but not least

It's the last week of our course and tomorrow our blog will be four weeks old :) I was the first one to post here, and now I start wrap...

Findings of the search of PR in Ethiopia

How to prove when it’s hard to find proofs? We westerners always like to measure and rank and analyse. UK-based Gyroscope consultancy has ...

22 November 2009

Media and PR Challenges during Colonial Times

What has not yet been touched in this blog is the fact that most African states are old colonies of European countries. This post is based o...

19 November 2009

World's First Arabic Domain Name to Egypt

Egypt has taken a leap forward in the world of the Internets this week by applying to register the first all-Arabic domain name. Egypt’s inf...

18 November 2009

2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa

Football is a really popular sports all over the world and 2010 FIFA World Cup is going to take place in South Africa! The logo of the Worl...

17 November 2009

International marketing logo

On November 6, 2009 (a bit more than ten days ago) the government of South Africa approved the new international marketing logo for South Af...

Media and sponsor attractiveness of Ethiopian athletes

Ethiopia has some of the world’s best middle-distance and long-distance runners. You may have heard of Abebe Bikila, Mamo Wolde, Miruts Yift...

13 November 2009

What happened to Coca-Cola in Egypt

Here's another beverage-related case from Africa: the crisis that Coca-Cola went through in Egypt, in a nutshell. Coca-Cola has been ava...

12 November 2009

Public Relations Institute of Southern Africa

It was the Global Public Relations Handbook that gave me an idea to have a closer look at the Public Relations Institute of Southern Africa...

11 November 2009

PR conflict - Ethiopian government vs. Starbucks

Coffee comes originally from Ethiopia, from a province called Kaffa. Coffee is Ethiopia’s most important export product by 60 % ( CIA the wo...

10 November 2009

PR media in the developing Ethiopia

Even if it seems that PR in Ethiopia is very little researched I want to stubbornly continue with this case country for two reasons 1) this ...

09 November 2009

Kenya comes to Jyväskylä

Just received the following invitation to my e-mail from the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy: GUEST LECTURE: DR GODWIN MU...

Media in Egypt

The beginnings of modern mass media in Egypt date back to 1798, when the first mass circulation newspaper in Alexandria was established by N...

06 November 2009

First signs of PR in South Africa

The author of Chapter 14 titled as Public Relations in South Africa: From Rhetoric to Reality from The Global Public Relations Handbook , R...

Facts & Figures: Republic of South Africa

The Republic of South Africa (conventional short form: South Africa) is located at the southern tip of Africa. The population of the coun...

05 November 2009

Search of PR in Ethiopia

Due to my short visit in Ethiopia in 2007 I had the interest to find out how the PR is conducted in that beautiful country. I started my r...

04 November 2009

What kind of PR is needed in Africa?

What kind of PR these children would benefit form? Togo Children diligently helping their mother do the laundry in the river. Photo taken f...

Egyptian PR Industry

In Egypt, PR is often considered synonymous with hospitality or customer relations. The service industry is probably the one most associated...

Facts and Figures: Egypt

To better understand communication in Egypt, I thought I'd post some elucidating facts. These are taken from The CIA World Factbook . Po...

Press Releases related to Africa

African Press Organization offers a Database of Press Releases related to Africa . You can also search news according to countries.

03 November 2009

Specializing

As a result of the preliminary research and discussions within our group, we decided to focus our next postings on different countries. Some...

02 November 2009

Overview of PR in Africa

The following overview is based on the material from the book mentioned in our previous posting (The Global Public Relations Handbook: Theor...

30 October 2009

Global Public Relations Handbook

It's really nice to live in e-world. I just found a very recent book (2009) on global PR. It's called "The Global Public Relati...

News on PR in Africa

I found a webpage that offers constantly updated news and information about Public Relations in Africa. You can find it from here . The page...

Anna

I'm not very familiar with Africa, but I have visited Ethiopia for a couple of weeks - and loved it. I'm looking forward to learning...

27 October 2009

Tiiu

My name is Tiiu and I am a member of team No 8 at our course. I come from Estonia and have been studying at the University of Jyväskylä sinc...

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