ABSTRACT
African Media and Communication: Foundational Conversations [hereafter Conversations] engages directly with the history, actors, specificities, contexts and shifting dimensions in the locus of enunciation of media and communication studies in Africa. The immediate task includes a concise rendering of the nuances within media and communication contexts arising from Africa’s shared geographies, histories and experiences constituting this emerging academic space. We are keen to unpack the rationale behind existing theories and practices and to explore how this has resonated with how media and communication studies in Africa have transformed and continue to transform our means of knowing, our practices of looking and our ways of engaging both within and outside the narrow confines of disciplinary silos. These are central issues in the urgent quest to rethink and unthink the academic discipline of African media and communication.
