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Introduction: Not to be left out: African languages, media and the digital sphere Section A: Digital Media, Revitalisation and Sustainability of African languages Chapter 1: Access to Information, Skills and Development in Africa: Local Knowledge in Local Language by Grant McNulty Chapter 2: New Media and Revitalization of Minority Languages for Sustainable Development in Nigeria: Thesis, Anti-thesis and Synthesis by Chimaobi D. Onwukwe Section B: Audience, African language mass media and their adaptation to the digital sphere Chapter 3: Alaroye, Isolezwe and the adoption of digital technologies by Abiodun Salawu Chapter 4: Okun Radio Online by Josephine Olufunmilayo Alexander Chapter 5: Grassroots Media and Social Media Adaptation: Case Study of Urhobo Today by Ufuoma Akpojivi Chapter 6: Defying ‘Protocol’: Use of Local Languages among Online Newspaper Readers in Zimbabwe by Tendai Chari Section C: African Languages in the Social Media Chapter 7: Use of indigenous languages for social media communication: The Nigerian example by Oloruntola Sunday, Ayo Yusuff, Godwin Simon, Vincent Obia and Samuel EjiwunmiChapter 8: Subaltern agency, social media and the indigenous African language question in Zimbabwe by Phillip Mpofu Chapter 9: Popular Digital Media and Yoruba Cultural Positioning on Facebook by Jendele Hungbo Section D: Contents, Challenges and Prospects of Online African Language Media Chapter 10: New Technologies, Indegenous Language Journalism Practice and Development Discourse in Africa by Toyosi Olugbenga Samson Owolabi Chapter 11: Negotiating popular local content in the "new media" era by Monica B. Chibita and Emmanuel Wanyonyi Chapter 12: Issues and challenges of adopting digital technologies by African language media:The YoruIbai example by Ayo Yusuff and Tola Osunnuga Chapter 13: African language online mass media in Malawi by Pascal J KishindoChapter 14: The advent of multimedia platforms and the place for indigenous language media in South Africa by Gilbert Motsaathebe