Introduction: special focus on racism in Israeli society

By identifying radio as a previously understudied phenomenon, this article points at the various areas of interest in radio studies in Africa. It suggests a new reading of radio for development in Africa where radio drama is packaged for consumption within the ‘real’ everyday world. By utilizing the soap opera and melodramatic forms, development radio dramas shape themselves around the realities facing their listeners. Pointing out that soap operas demand to be read as ‘realistic’ this article therefore focuses on a Kenyan radio play, Ushikwapo Shikamana, and seeks to understand how it invites listeners to apply its developmental lessons and themes to everyday life. Central to the discussion is the contradictory depiction of tradition in the radio drama. The subject becomes central to the article as the didactic applications of lessons from drama to life inevitably impinge on tradition.     

Editor's Notes

Two examples are given that illustrate the Gauss–Markov theorem. The examples will help students appreciate the use of the word best in connection with the term BLUE (best linear unbiased estimator). The examples will also provide several instructive exercises.     

Book Reviews

A First Course in Probability Models and Statistical Inference. J.H.C. Creighton. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1994. xxxi + 717 pp. $49.95. Reviewed by Bruce Kino

Statistical Methods: An Introductory Text. J. Mehdi. New Delhi: Wiley Eastern Limited, 1992, xii + 438 pp. $37.97. Reviewed by William D. Warde

Regression Analysis—Concepts and Applications. Franklin A. Graybill and Hariharan K. Iyer. Florence, KY: Wadsworth Inc., 1994, 701 pp. $59.95. Reviewed by Larry Winner     

New Developments in Statistical Competing

By surrounding the sample plot with a kind of birthday balloon, we can guess the value of Pearson's correlation coefficient, r, in a very simple way.