Call for Articles:

AFRICA MEDIA REVIEW  1995/96

AMR  Themes

You as a member of ACCE are cordially invited to contribute  articles
for the  1995/96 issues of our journal.  The following themes are
suggested to guide you:

1.  Vol.9, No.2,1995

2.  Vol.9, No.3,1995

3.  Vol.10, No. 1,1996

4.  Vol. 10 No.2,  1996

5.  Vol. 10 No.3 1996

Development  Communication
(Rural Communication Environmental
Communication and Health Communi
cation) Deadline 30th May.

Media Education
(Policies, Institutions, Cultural Values
and Curricular Concerns)
Deadline 30th July

Information Flow, in and out of
Africa
{Traditional Communication and
Information Technology)
Deadline 3oth November.

The Electronic Media
(Radio ,Television and Video use  in
Africa) Deadline 30th March  1996

Communication and the  Empowerment
of a Civil Society.
Deadline 30th June  1996

ACCE 1995 Annual Conference

Traditional Communication/Oramedia

and Development
Frank Ugboajah  Memoriam

Lagos, Nigeria. October 22 - 28, 1995

Traditional  Communication/Oramedia  and  Develop-
ment, as the theme for the 1995 Annual Conference of
ACCE, will make it possible for governments, NGOs and
development agencies, whose work and services are
based on social communications, to collaborate with
ACCE  in considering  how  traditional  communication
can  interface with the modern mass media in the criti-
cal  task  of  educating, in-
forming and mobilizing de-
velopment audiences.

The following  areas of so-
cial communication will be
focused  in the  context  of
traditional communication
and oramedia:

Education:
Instructional, Pedagogical
and curricular concerns,

Environment:
Protection, Education, 
Degradation and Management Issues

T he late Franl<

Health:
Family Life, AIDS, Reproductive Health, Population and
Child Survival,

Gender:
Women Empowerment, Discrimination, Roles, Images
and Professions

Politics:
Democracy, Governance, Media Politics and Milita-
rism.

Research:
Communication Messages, Audiences, Sources and
Channels

Technology:
Information storage, Retrieval and Transmission.

All presentations will be in the plenary sessions, Please
send  your  abstracts  before  July  15 or  full  papers
before August 15 to any of the following:

1. Ben Orewere
ACCE, Nigeria
P.O. Box 10227
University of Jos,
Jos,
Nigeria
Fax: 234-073-56370

2. Lekan Ajia

National  Broadcasting
Commission
P. O. Box 55021
Ikoyi, Lagos,
Nigeria
Fax:234-1-2647868

3. Charles Nyambuga

ACCE Secretariat, P. O. Box 47495 Nairobi,

Kenya

Fax: 254-2-216135/750329

Editorial Advisory Board

Dr. Jacques  Habib-Sy

Prof Cees Hamelink

Dr. Alan Hancock

- Information  Sciences Division,  IDRC
Regional Office for Eastern and
Southern Africa,  Nairobi, Kenya

- Institute of Social Studies, The
Hague .The Netherlands

- Division of Communication, UNESCO
Paris, France

Dr. Hugues Kone

- UNFPA, Abidjan,  Cote d'lvoire

Mr. Reinhard Kuene

- Friedrich Ebert Stiftung,  New York,
USA

Prof. Ali Mazrui

Dr. Joseph Mbindyo

Prof. R. L. Nwafo Nwanko

Prof. James  Scotton

- State University of New York,
Binghamton, New York, USA

- School of Journalism,  University of
Nairobi, Kenya

- Department of Mass Communication
Arts and Sciences, Howard
University, Washington DC, USA

- College of Journalism,  Marquette
University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
USA

We acknowledge the financial  assistance of the Friedrich  Ebert
Foundation in publishing this issue.

The  Following  Back  Issues  of  AMR
are Still  Available:

AMR Vol.  1, Nos.  2  & 3,  1987.

AMR Vol. 2,  Nos  1, 2  & 3,  1988.

AMR Vol. 3, Nos.  1, 2  & 3,  1989.

AMR Vol. 4,  Nos.  1 & 2,  1990.

AMR Vol.  5,  Nos.  2  & 3,  1991.

AMR Vol. 6,  Nos.  1,  2  & 3,  1992.

AMR Vol.  7,  Nos.  1 & 2,  1993.

AMR Vol. 8,  Nos.  1,  2  & 3,  1994.

Cover design: Frank  Odoi

Typesetting  and  layout:  Media  Congress

P. O. Box 57227,  Nairobi

Telephone:  336223/  241888

Printed by English  Press Ltd

P. O. Box 30127, Nairobi,  Kenya

Telephone:  540581

on behalf  of the

African  Council for  Communication  Education (ACCE),

Nairobi,  Kenya

ISSN  0258-44914

Published by
African Council for Communication Education