Role of Radio in Africa: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on African Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session, March 28, 1996, Volume 4 |
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Page 1 - AFFAIRS OF THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, Washington, DC The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 2:05 pm, in room SD-419, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon.
Page 11 - Hearings before the Subcommittee on African Affairs of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, 94 Cong.
Page 9 - With your permission, I would like to submit my full testimony for the record and concentrate on some of the more significant trends indicated by your data.
Page 9 - Chairman, members of the committee, thank you for your invitation to testify regarding the US Information Agency's involvement in radio in Africa.
Page 37 - Thank you. [The prepared statement of Mr. Marks follows:] PREPARED STATEMENT OF MR. MARKS Madame Chair, I very much appreciate the chance to testify before you.
Page 6 - for bringing issues like democracy and freedom so clearly to the Nigerian people and to Africa as a whole.
Page 7 - can save poor people a fortune. In a radio played 5 to 10 hours a day, a [crank-up] radio will save $500 to $1,000 in battery costs over its three-year fife-span.
Page 51 - State government journalists on one side of the table, and on the other side were private.
Page 1 - It holds immense power and possibilities on a continent where more than half of the population is illiterate.