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West African mass communication research at major turning point

over time, and evaluates the kinds of problems studied, the research methods used, the kinds of researchers involved, and the quality of the research studies produced. We will also examine the direction which this research should be taking now and in the immediate years ahead. It is better to pause as early as possible in an adventurous journey to review the progress made in order to ensure that one is on the right track than to march on gingerly only to discover when it is already too late that one has been lost. Also, the amount of mass communication research literature accumulated on West Africa and the nature of the progress being made justify this review.