Apply for a Ph.D. or MA. in communication science, and media communication in Africa at North-West University, Mahikeng Campus, South Africa, via the ILMA Research entity.

Dear colleagues, friends, students, and acquaintances, please note that on September 25, 2024, Professor Abiodun Salawu, the Director of ILMA Research Entity at the North-West University, South Africa, will be delivering a lecture on ”It All Starts Here: The Place of isiXhosa in the Historiography of African Language Press” at the “Town-Meets-Gown Seminar Series” of […]

Professor Gilbert Motsaathebe, a renowned scholar with a wealth of experience in both academia and the media industry, delivered a thought-provoking inaugural lecture. The lecture, titled “Negotiating knowledge boundaries and dual citizenship: A mass communication practitioner’s diachronic, pedagogical, and futurological exploration,” offered a comprehensive reflection on his professional journey and the evolving role of pracademia in mass communication.

Colonialists never left Africa after independence but have continued to expand their empires through language domination, according to Kenyan academic and author Ngugi wa Thiong’o, currently a distinguished English and comparative literature professor at the University of California, Irvine.

At the 3rd Biennial IAMLMR International Conference, the Indigenous Language Media in Africa (ILMA) Research Entity launches the International Journal of Indigenous Language Media and Discourse (IJILMD).

The College of Fellows of the prestigious Nigerian Academy of Letters has awarded Prof. Abiodun Salawu  Fellow of Nigerian Academy of Letters (NAL).

In its drive to become a more research-intensive institution, the Research and Innovation Department of the North-West University has selected the Indigenous Language Media in Africa (ILMA) Research Entity as one of its performing research entities at the 20-year-old University

A media consultant, multimedia journalist, and academic, Dr. Quasim Akinreti has called on media practitioners to utilise the advantages of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as part of their tools of trade to remain relevant to the audience

Listed below are hotels available for the IAMLMR Biennial Conference in July (8–11), 2024. Delegates are therefore encouraged to make a reservation as soon as possible

The Journal of African Cinemas is currently inviting abstracts for a themed issue on “African Language Films”. The Journal of African Cinemas is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal that explores the interactions of visual and verbal narratives in African film.

The organising committee of the International Association for Minority Language Media Research (IAMLMR) biennial conference under the theme Minority Language Media in Uncertain Times invites submissions for the biennial international conference to be hosted by the Indigenous Language Media in Africa (ILMA) research entity at the North-West University, Mafikeng, South Africa on 8 – 11 July 2024.

A renowned expert in indigenous language media research and Director Indigenous Language Media in Africa (ILMA) research entity at North-West, Mafikeng campus Prof. Abiodun Salawu has argued that people hardly research indigenous language media. 

Prof Toyin Omoyeni Falola has generously donated 27 books to the North-West University’s (NWU’s) Mahikeng Campus library.

The South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF), together with PanSALB and the United Nations in South Africa, are hosting the inaugural Indigenous Languages and the Media Seminar today in Sandton, Johannesburg.

Renowned historian, Prof. Toyin Falola, has said the decline of indigenous languages will result in poverty and marginalisation,

The North-West University’s (NWU’s) Indigenous Language Media in Africa (ILMA) research entity hosted a hybrid public lecture on 3 August on “Communication, media, culture, and evolving trends in the world of indigenous languages”.

The North-West University’s (NWU’s) Indigenous Language Media in Africa (ILMA) research entity will be hosting Prof Toyin Omoyeni Falola, the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas in the United States.