History of Mass Communication in Cameroon (CADA2103)
BA. Communication and Development Studies - CDS
Semester: Resit
Level: 200
Year: 2017
Time Allowed: 3hrs
Venue: Amphi 340
Credit Value: 6
Instruction” answer all the questions in section one and two other questions.
Marks will be awarded for good English and orderly presentation of material.
SECTION ONE: answer true or false (lmark each)
1. the first newspaper to be published in west Africa in an indigenous
language was iwe irohin
2. The first private radio station to be up in Cameroon was radio lumiere.
3. The second media law effectively liberalized broadcasting.
4. In preparation for deregulation of broadcasting CRTV launched regional
radio stations.
5. Radio garoua is noted for the introduction of indigenous language
broadcasting in Cameroon.
6. The arrest of journalists after the publication of a newspaper is post
publication censorship.
7. The first newspaper in Cameroon to be published in an indigenous
language was elolombei ya kamerun.
Year: 2016/2017
Cameroon
Course Title: History Of Mass Comm.. In
UNIVERSITY OF BAMENDA
FACULTY OF ARTS
RESIT EXAMINATION 2016/2017
Department: Cads Course Lecturer: Henry Muluh, Phd
Date: 18
th
September 2017,11.30am Course Code: Cads 203
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8-. These were the first two indigenous southern Cameroons newspapers:
Cameroons champion and Cameroon times.
9. The WCAJ was the only body that attempted to challenge the 1966 press
law.
10.
The Nigerian leader and journalist, Namndi Azikiwe influenced
Cameroon Anglophone
journalist
with a
major
publication that
was
called
West African pilot.
11 .missionaries were the first private publisher of newspapers in Cameroon
12. The first radio station in Cameroon was nickname l’Enfant de la Guerre.
13. Um Nyobe was expelled from Cameroon for publishing an article that
criticizes the government for transporting prisoners in a train
compartment with no ventilation.
14. Two of the longest serving newspapers in Cameroon were launched in
1955.
15. The first director of the first journalism school in Cameroon was Herves
Bourges.
16. The Cameroon government owned and controlled a newspaper from the
1970s.
17. The first state-owned newspaper after independence started as a bilingual
daily.
18. The studio at West Farm in Buea produced a radio programme for
Anglophone Cameroonians called southern Cameroons calling.
19. The first news agency in Cameroon was called ACAP.
20. Amsblatt was the first administrative publication in colonial Cameroon.
21 .The
Hope
Wadell
Training Institute
printing Press
would have
facilitated
the
birth of
the
press
in Anglophone
Cameroon but
political
reporting by
its lone publication forced it to close down.
22.the two trends that were initiated in the colonial period in Cameroon that
have continued to characterized
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reality in Cameroon since the 2000 text of application.
diversity has been a
(20mks)
QUESTION TWO
Discuss the assertion that the Nigeria press and the search for an identity
facilitated the birth of the early Anglophone Cameroon press? (20mks)
QUESTION THREE
Two major political events in the political life of Cameroon led to changes in
media ownership and control in Cameroon through two major media regulatory
texts. How can you support this statement?
23.The creation of CRTV after CTV came as a result of a coup plot.
24.Editorial control of newspapers by Divisional Officers before 1990 can be
regarded as administrative censorship.
25. Three states owned radio stations were created in Cameroon after the 6
th
April 1984 insurrection.
26. A utilitarian press can be similarly referred to as advocacy journalism.
27. The first Cameroon media law authorized two ministers to control the
press.
28. Late Vincent Nchami was the publisher of the first Anglophone
Cameroon newspaper.
29. The Brazzaville Conference helped encourage the birth of nationalist
press in Francophone Cameroon.
30. The National Communication Council was empowered by the Prime
ministerial text of 2000.
SECTION TWO
QUESTION ONE
Using Bamenda as a case study, discuss the statement that radio broadcast
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