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The withdrawal of the Mirror Group and the Thomson Organisation from West Africa left the newspapers of Nigeria and Ghana in the hands of African journalists and African managers. But even before the last Britishers had left, control of the press had been taken over by the politicians, civilian or military.
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© 1979 Frank Barton
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Barton, F. (1979). The Going of the Europeans. In: The Press of Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04075-9_4
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