<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">CAMRI Africa Media Series: April 2007</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Democracy and the Media in Africa Conference,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">6-7 April 2007, University of Westminster, London, UK</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">This is a 1st Call for Papers for a two-day CAMRI Africa Media Conference on ‘Democracy and the Media in Africa: Challenges and Changes’. If the mass media are the bedrock for freedom and democracy, what has been the relationship between democracy and the mass media in Africa? Has it been a case of poor democracy, poor media? How have the media influenced processes of democracy in Africa? The conference will on the one hand explore the relationship between African democracy and ‘traditional’ African media such as newspapers, radio stations, and televisions. On the other hand, it will examine the role played by alternative and new media channels and formats in African democracies. Africa now has different kinds of media servicing democratic processes. Individual papers may, amongst other topics, focus on the:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">· <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Media Ownership and African democracy</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">· <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>NGOs and Activists Media in Africa</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">· <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Protest Music, Theatre, Drama and other Alternative Media in Africa</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">· <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Political Party Media in Africa</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">· <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>New Media and Democracy in Africa</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">· <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Foreign Media and African Democracy</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">· <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Mediating Rural and Urban Citizenship in Africa</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">· <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Elections, Elites and the Media in Africa</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">· <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Human Rights and Citizenship</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">· <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Media access and openness</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">· <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Media Democracy and Freedom</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">· <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Media and the ‘African’ Public Sphere</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">· <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Media Controls and Constraints in Africa</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">·</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Papers are invited on Democracy and the Media in Africa. The deadline for abstracts is 15th January 2007. All submissions ''must'' include a title and an abstract of 100 to 300 words. They should also list the full name of the submitter, with contact information and affiliations. The abstracts should be provided as ''plain text'', and not as file attachments. Those whose papers are accepted will be notified by 30th January 2007. Completed papers (not more than 6000 words) must be e-mailed to us not later than 15th March 2007. Send 200-word abstracts to Ogo Charity Ekwenchi at <<A href="mailto:ekwenchiogo@yahoo.co.uk">mailto:ekwenchiogo@yahoo.co.uk</A>>ekwenchiogo@yahoo.co.uk or Wilberforce Dzisah at <<A href="mailto:Wdzisah@Yahoo.Com">mailto:Wdzisah@Yahoo.Com</A>><A href="mailto:Wdzisah@Yahoo.Com">Wdzisah@Yahoo.Com</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Fees:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Unwaged/Students: <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>£40</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Non-Students: <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>£100</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Fees cover registration, conference pack, lunch, coffee and tea.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; 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