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Ownership and Control of the Press in Africa

In many of the highly developed parts of the world today, one of the most pressing problems in mass communications is how to break the vicious circle of big business monopoly of the communications channels. It is a problem of dealing with an industry that may probably have reached ’the optimum point of efficiency in bigness’.1 In the developing countries of Africa, on the other hand, one of the urgent problems is how to consolidate the disparate and haphazard interests in mass communications in order to build a viable system. It is a problem of bringing some semblance of efficiency into an industry that functions at best in an erratic form. The problem is a knotty one, and African states are in a dilemma as to what the best means of resolving the issue can be. Is it outright state takeover, with all the inherent danger of total constriction of freedom of expression? Is it a laissez faire solution, with