*CFP* "INDIGENOUS AFRICAN LANGUAGE MEDIA: PAST, PRESENT AND THE FUTURE", BOOK CHAPTER

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.

 

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@gmail.com; tshabangu2012@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

1. 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.
2. Manuscripts can use appropriate referencing styles.
3. Manuscripts should be accompanied by an abstract
4. Authors are requested to add their names, institutional affiliations, email addresses and phone numbers on the cover page.