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- Title
Fourth Biannual Festival Ondes de Liberté (Waves of Freedom Festival).
- Authors
Tower, Craig
- Abstract
This article presents the proceedings of the Festival Ondes de Liberté held at the Plais des Congres convention center near Niger River in central Bamako, Mali. The majority of the participants were directors of francophone FM radio stations in West Africa, although a handful of lusophones, mainly from Guinea-Bissau, also participated. The conference organizers are trying to expand the appeal of the conference to radio professionals from all of Africa, and attracted participants from as far away as Algeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burundi. The importance of the event within The festival had several components:a conference, a small exhibition area, a functioning radio station, and a programme contest. The central activity, however, was the three-day conference in which radio personnel, lawyers, journalists, aid workers, leaders of self-help associations, and academics presented their opinions or experiences on the theme of conflict management. Debate was a central element of the conference, and the question-and-answer period often lasted longer than the presentations themselves. The conference discussions illustrated that FM radio stations, even within West Africa, operate under diverse political and legal conditions. While much press is given to the ideal of community radio, a great number of radio stations in Africa are not at all community stations in the sense of being owned,operated and directly supervised by local board members. Many are in fact private, religious, or associational. This obviously changes the way that these stations operate when local conflicts arise. The festival closed with the presentation of awards for the programme contest. Coverage of the closure of the event by national television news was further evidence of its significance.
- Subjects
BAMAKO (Mali); MALI; CONFERENCE proceedings (Publications); RADIO stations; RADIO broadcasting -- Congresses; CONFLICT management; FESTIVALS; CONFERENCES &; conventions
- Publication
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, 2004, Vol 2, Issue 2, p123
- ISSN
1476-4504
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1386/rajo.2.2.123/7