[Commlist] CFP Indigenous African language media: Past, Present and the Future

CFP_ Indigenous African language media: Past, Present and the Future


Indigenous African language media, also referred to as ethnic or 
minority language media in some contexts, encompass tools of 
communication, socialisation and community that Africans used during 
pre-colonial periods and are still in existence despite the advent of 
Western-styled media. Some indigenous language media reinforce the 
capability of conventional media of communication.  Indigenous language 
media in Africa are products of more than 4000 African languages used by 
different tribes, races and communities. Africans have employed these 
indigenous media in different ages, epochs, civilisations, and 
colonisations to document, celebrate and mourn experiences using 
different native formats like music, songs, festivals, rituals, dance, 
arts, to mention a few. Although there are not enough scholarly works 
devoted to indigenous African language media, Professor Abiodun Salawu 
of Indigenous Language Media in Africa research entity at North West 
University, South Africa  is one of the leading scholars who has 
contributed immensely to indigenous African language media scholarship. 
His teachings, research, academic mentorship, and community engagement 
also reflect his fields of interest, which include indigenous language 
media, development communication, critical media studies, journalism and 
communication research, journalism education, and digital media. His 
publications that appear in reputable journals, books, edited books, 
conference presentations speak volumes of his zeal for research 
especially in indigenous African language media. It is incontestable 
that Prof Abiodun Salawu has paid and is still paying his due in 
indigenous African language media scholarship and should be honoured by 
his friends, colleagues, students and well-wishers. Therefore, the 
research entity of Indigenous Language Media in Africa is 
inviting contributions in the form of essays and articles from 
interested individuals to honour his contributions to these various 
fields of knowledge in communication and journalism studies.  These will 
be published in the form of a double blind peer reviewed 
festschrift. Possible topics to explore for submission to this book include:

·Media Representations: representations of gender, race, class and 
ethnicity in minority/African indigenous language news media;

·Practice-based studies: Cases studies that demonstrate the use of 
minority/African indigenous media of drama, songs, folklore, theatre for 
development communication or democratisation;

·Media texts and contents: Studies that utilise discourse analysis, 
thematic analysis and content analysis to analyse minority/African 
indigenous language media constructions of social reality in Africa;

·Audiences and reception: how different cultures appropriate indigenous 
language media content, and the range of different meanings, 
interpretations and pleasures that audience members take from them;

·Audience participation: How audiences participate in meaning-making and 
contribute to content production processes of indigenous African 
language media;

·Studies that map audiences of indigenous language media to determine 
its market foothold in minority/Africa setting, i.e. whethxer it is 
urban or rural, young or old, social status, access to digital 
technologies and how indigenous language media producers respond to 
everchanging audience needs and tastes;

·Television and cinema in indigenous minority/African languages;

·Indigenous languages media, peace and conflict resolution: The extent 
to which indigenous language media are used for peace journalism or to 
incite ethnicity;

·Indigenous language media in Africa and crisis communication: For 
example, how indigenous language media in Africa report on health crises 
such as the recent COVID-19 global pandemic; HIV/AIDS, Ebola

·Hyperlocal and citizen journalism in indigenous languages: The extent 
to which indigenous language media have adopted participatory journalism 
approaches and how they utilise content from citizen journalists or 
community reporters;

·Representations in indigenous language media: How politics, gender, 
health, sport, violence, communication science are represented in 
indigenous language media;

·Beat analysis in indigenous language newspapers, for example, the 
presence of science journalism, investigative reporting, health 
reporting, political journalism, business journalism;

·Corporate communication in African Languages: How public relations and 
advertising messages are done in African languages;

·Fake news, hate speech and trust of indigenous African language 
newspapers: To what extent can tabloid African language newspapers be 
purveyors of fake news, hate speech and other forms of disinformation;

·Ethnicity and identity formation through indigenous language media.

However, the subthemes are not limited to the above.

Submission of Articles

·Interested contributors are invited to submit a 200-word abstract and a 
100-word biography to: (israelfadipe77 /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(israelfadipe77 /at/ gmail.com)>; (tshabangu2012 /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(tshabangu2012 /at/ gmail.com)>

·Deadline for Submission of Abstract August 30th, 2021

·Communicating Acceptance of Abstract September 16th, 2021

·Deadline for Submission of Full Paper December 31st, 2021

·The publication of the book is before December 2022

Guidelines for Contributors

i.All manuscripts should not be more than 6000 words, including 
references, figures, tables, graphs and diagrams, and should be typed 
double spaced with proper margin.

ii.Manuscripts can use appropriate referencing styles.

iii.Manuscripts should be accompanied by an abstract

iv.Authors are requested to add their names, institutional affiliations, 
email addresses and phone numbers on the cover page.


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