Ohio University, Athens Ohio

Since its inception in 2004, the Sports and Africa Symposium has sought to foster meaningful dialogue on the interface of sports and Africa among academics, practitioners, media, non-governmental organisations and the public. The presentations have explored the relationship among sports and broader themes such as politics, culture, gender, age, cooperation, conflict, history, migration, mass media, health and development.  The multi-disciplinary approach has allowed scholars and practitioners to explore multiple dimensions of African sport and to learn from each other.  In continuing the multi-disciplinary exploration and study of African sport, Communication, Media and Sports in Africa will be the leading theme of 2008 symposium being hosted at Ohio University,

The 2008 conference themes includes: 

•  communication for sports and development;
• international media coverage of African sports;
• digital media and sport;
• internet and sport;
• satellite and cable media and sport;
• women sport in media;
• youth and sport media;
• economics and sport media;
• media and the 2010 World Cup; and
• role of media sponsorship in sports.

   

Although the organisers encourage the submission of papers that focus on communication, media and sports, conference organisers are also open to the submission of papers that deal with other aspects of sports in Africa.  

Participants are being invited to submit proposals for presentations, roundtables or poster displays. 
The deadline for presentation abstract and roundtable submissions is December 01 2007.
Authors whose abstracts are accepted for presentation must submit the completed papers by January 26 2008. 
Selected papers will be considered for publication in Impumelelo: the Interdisciplinary Electronic Journal of African Sports
The registration fee for the symposium is US$50