10 PART VI USE OF MASS MEDIA Article 20 The African States should recognize that there can be no cultural policy without corresponding policies on information and communication. Article 21 The African States should encourage the use of the information and communication media for their cultural development. Article 22 (a) The African Governments should ensure the total decolonization of the mass media and increase the production of radio and television broadcasts, cinematographic films which reflect the political, economic and social realities of the people in order to enable the masses to have greater access to and participation in the cultural riches. (b) African Governments should create publishing and distribution institutions for books, school manuals, records and instruments of the press in Africa to combat market speculators and make them into instruments of popular education. (c) African Governments should establish joint co-operation in order to break the monopoly of non-African countries in this field. PART VII THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENTS IN CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT Chapter VI – Assistance to Artistic Creation Article 23 African states should be active in promoting national cultural development through a policy of effective assistance both as regards collective methods of creation and in favour of individual artists. Such assistance may take various forms: