[ecrea] CFP Global Media and the War on Terror in Africa

*Journal of African Media Studies *

Special Issue on Media and the ‘War on Terror’ in Africa

Ibrahim Seaga Shaw & Suzanne Franks (co-editors)

The post cold war period saw a declining interest in African problems 
and conflicts. But following 9/11 Africa suddenly started to attract an 
apparent sustained Western media interest again with the emergence of 
the ‘war on terror’ frame. How can we therefore explain the role of the 
media in first, the failure of the international community to intervene 
and avert total disaster in these ‘distant’ African crises, second, in 
using the ‘war on terror’ frame to revive Western interest in Africa’s 
wars, and finally, how this ‘war on terror’ frame may after all be a 
smokescreen for the West’s covert political and/or geostrategic 
interests in some potentially rich parts of Africa?

This Special Issue will focus on the local and international media 
dimensions of the framing and coverage of ‘war on terror’ within Africa. 
The editors especially welcome receiving abstracts from scholars based 
in African institutions.

Deadline for Abstracts 15 June

Deadline for Manuscripts (6000 words) 30 September

October –January Peer Review and submission of final version to Journal

Publication - Summer 2012

Please send abstracts to Dr Ibrahim Seaga Shaw (i.shaw /at/ uwe.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(i.shaw /at/ uwe.ac.uk)> or Dr Suzanne Franks (s.franks /at/ kent.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(s.franks /at/ kent.ac.uk)>

Dr Suzanne Franks
Centre for Journalism
University of Kent
www.kent.ac.uk/journalism <http://www.kent.ac.uk/journalism>