SUBMISSIONS: Call for Book Chapters

Deadline: April 12 2024  This edited volume will address a pressing need in current discourse by focusing on decolonising communication for social change and development from intercultural perspectives in the Global South. It underscores the urgency to dismantle...
New Publications in April

New Publications in April

Compiled by Elva Nziza, for AJENda and Afromedia.network We present a short selection of publications of interest to the African communications and media studies research community. 1. Media in Africa: Issues and Critiques Editors: Toks Dele Oyedemi, René A. Smith A...
Meet Your Colleague: Gillian Jones

Meet Your Colleague: Gillian Jones

By Kemiso Wessie Born and bred in Johannesburg, Gillian Jones brings over two decades of experience in journalism to her role as a financial journalism lecturer at the Wits Centre for Journalism. Her academic journey spans various institutions including the University...
Ethiopia gets its first journalism textbook

Ethiopia gets its first journalism textbook

By Enoch Sithole Journalism students in Ethiopia will now use a homegrown journalism textbook, thanks to the work of Drs Getachew Dinku and Abdissa Zerai who recently published the country’s first journalism textbook. Titled “Journalism in Ethiopia – The wrestle...
SACOMM 2024 to debate ‘politics of the present’

SACOMM 2024 to debate ‘politics of the present’

By Enoch Sithole The SACOMM 2024 conference will have a specific focus “on the politics of the present, and practices of being present,” said the Local Organising Committee (LOC) at Stellenbosch University.                                                              ...