ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the interventionist role of community media groups in contemporary media policy developments of Anglophone sub-Saharan Africa. It is broadly located within the discourse about the ‘shapers’ of media policy development and aims to respond to the enduring tensions in scholarship with regard to the actual role of and the difficulty of mapping the impact of grassroots policy actors in media policy reforms (Humphreys, 1994; Horwitz, 2001; Chakravartty and Sarikakis, 2006). The empirical materials draw upon various case studies of media deregulation and campaigning activities of community print and broadcast media groups in South Africa, Ghana and Nigeria.
