Hopeton S. Dunn is Professor of Communications Policy and Digital Media, based at University of Botswana, Botswana. He is the former Director of the Caribbean School of Media and Communication, The University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.Dumisani Moyo is Professor of Communication and Vice Dean, Academic, at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.William O. Lesitaokana (PhD) is Senior Lecturer and Head at the Department of Media Studies at the University of Botswana, Botswana. Shanade Bianca Barnabas (PhD) is Senior Lecturer and Head at the Department of Communication Studies, School of Communication, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

• 1. Re-Imagining Communication in Africa and the Caribbean: ‘Releasing the Psychic Inheritance'.- 2. New Optics on Digital Media Cultures in Africa.- 3. Globalisation from Within: Enhancing Digital Productivity and Technology Transformation in the South.- 4. Towards an Integrated Caribbean Paradigm in Communication Thought: Confronting Academic Dependence in Media Research.- 5. Tracking Two Waves: Transnational Influencers in Africa’s ICT Policy Formulation.- 6. Decolonising in the Gaps: Community Networks and the Identity of African Innovation.- 7. The Commodification of Mobile Communications in Cuba: Tracking Political and Economic Change.- 8. From Global to National: Mapping the Trajectory of the South African Video Game Industry.- 9. Indigenous Hip-hop: Digital Media Practices Among Youth of the South African San People.- 10. Creating a Home Community Online During Carnival: Trinidad’s Diaspora and Social Media Use.- 11. Philanthropy-funded Journalism: Implications for Media Independence and Editorial Credibility in South Africa.- 12. Business News making practices in Zimbabwe.- 13. Displacement and Substitutability Effects of Online Newspapers on Traditional Media: A Zambian Perspective.- 14. Diversity in Broadcast Television in Botswana: Prospects and Challenges.- 15. Back to the Village: Integrating Folk Media into Rural Food Security Communication in Ethiopia.- 16. Popular Culture as Alternative Media: Reggae Music, Culture and Politics in Malawi’s Democracy.- 17. Ruling Minds: The Media and State Propaganda in British-Ruled Nyasaland, 1945-1964.- 18. Communicating Politics in Small States: Preferred Sources of Political Knowledge in the Jamaican Society.- 19. Dancehall Music’s Resistance: Upstaging Diageo’s Prescriptive Marketing Rules in Jamaica.