ABSTRACT
Scholarly discussions on what it means to have an “African public sphere” have consistently raged for the last few decades. These debates and discussions have critiqued, questioned and sometimes added to the broader discourses about the nature of public spheres as advanced by Jürgen Habermas. This book chapter gives an account of a research that was conducted on a community radio station with an objective of understanding Africanity in the character of the community radio station. In this chapter, I aim to advance the discourse on African public sphere’s by focusing on Vukani Community Radio (VCR) as a micro or regional African public sphere platform. If we are to understand media platform within the discourse of decoloniality, their history as well as their current roles need to be understood and linked to the role of media institutions and communities of media content reception. This chapter therefore fulfils this role by addressing the characteristics of an African community radio broadcaster in relation to its role of functioning as an African public sphere that is rooted in the discursive identities of an African community.
