De-westernizing media theory to make room for African experience / Revisiting cultural imperialism and its critics / At the crossroads of the formal and popular : convergence culture and new publics in Zimbabwe / Theorising popular community media for democracy and development / Talk radio, democracy and citizenship in (South) Africa / Popular music as journalism in Africa : issues and contexts / Street news : the role of posters in democratic participation in Ghana / 'If you rattle a snake, be prepared to be bitten' : popular culture, politics and the Kenyan news media / Post-Apartheid South African social movements on film

The Amazing race in Burkina Faso / (South) African articulations of the ordinary, or, how popular print commodities (re)organize our lives / Popular TV programmes and audiences in Kinshasa / New technologies as tools of empowerment : African youth and public sphere participation / Transnational flows and local identities in Muslim Northern Nigerian films : from Dead Poets Society through Mohabbatein to So... / Local stories, global discussions : websites, politics and identity in African contexts / Survival of "radio culture" in a converged networked new media environment / Policing popular media in Africa