[ La radio au service de la paix et du développement dans l’Ouest ivoirien en contexte post-crise ]
Volume 24, Issue 2, September 2018, Pages 674–683
Alain François Loukou1
1 Département de Géographie, UFR Communication Milieu et Société, Université Alassane Ouattara (Bouaké), Côte d'Ivoire
Original language: French
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The purpose of this article is to highlight the key developmental role, but not always perceived at its fair value, that radio plays at the national and more precisely at the local level. Radio is a means of communication easily accessible to most people, as well in rural area as in urban area. As such, in particular socio-political contexts, it plays a leading role despite the pervasiveness of television and the Internet that disrupt the current media world. The west of the Ivory Coast that was one of the main centers of the military-political crisis in the country between 2002 and 2011 offers, through the Toulepleu department, an appropriate framework for assessing the role of the media in the socio-economic development after this crisis. A number of radio stations available in this region allow for an analysis of the issue. The results obtained through field studies and participating observations do show the key role that radio plays in national reconciliation and awareness politics to other socio-economic development issues.
Author Keywords: radio, medias, ICTs, political crisis, peace, socioeconomic development, Côte d’Ivoire.
Volume 24, Issue 2, September 2018, Pages 674–683
Alain François Loukou1
1 Département de Géographie, UFR Communication Milieu et Société, Université Alassane Ouattara (Bouaké), Côte d'Ivoire
Original language: French
Copyright © 2018 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to highlight the key developmental role, but not always perceived at its fair value, that radio plays at the national and more precisely at the local level. Radio is a means of communication easily accessible to most people, as well in rural area as in urban area. As such, in particular socio-political contexts, it plays a leading role despite the pervasiveness of television and the Internet that disrupt the current media world. The west of the Ivory Coast that was one of the main centers of the military-political crisis in the country between 2002 and 2011 offers, through the Toulepleu department, an appropriate framework for assessing the role of the media in the socio-economic development after this crisis. A number of radio stations available in this region allow for an analysis of the issue. The results obtained through field studies and participating observations do show the key role that radio plays in national reconciliation and awareness politics to other socio-economic development issues.
Author Keywords: radio, medias, ICTs, political crisis, peace, socioeconomic development, Côte d’Ivoire.
Abstract: (french)
L’objet de cet article est de mettre en lumière le rôle déterminant, mais pas toujours perçu à sa juste valeur, que joue la radio dans le développement socioéconomique national et plus précisément à l’échelle locale. La radio est un moyen de communication facilement accessible à la plupart des populations, en milieu rural comme en milieu urbain. À ce titre, dans les contextes sociopolitiques particuliers, elle joue un rôle de premier plan malgré la prégnance de la télévision et de l’Internet qui bouleversent l’univers actuel des médias. L’Ouest ivoirien qui a été l’un des principaux foyers de la crise militaro-politique qu’a connue le pays entre 2002 et 2011 offre, à travers le département de Toulepleu, un cadre approprié pour apprécier le rôle de ce média dans le développement socioéconomique après cette crise. Un certain nombre de stations de radio disponibles dans cette région permettent de faire une analyse sur la question. Les résultats obtenus grâce aux études de terrain et aux observations participantes révèlent effectivement le rôle incontournable que joue la radio dans la réconciliation nationale et les politiques de sensibilisation aux autres enjeux socioéconomiques de développement.
Author Keywords: radio, médias, TIC, crise politique, paix, développement socioéconomique, Côte d’Ivoire.
How to Cite this Article
Alain François Loukou, “Radio for peace and development in western Côte d’Ivoire in post-crisis context,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 674–683, September 2018.
