Media and Religious Identity: Issues and Choices Made in Response to Need by Post-Conflict Africans

This paper is based on interviews conducted with 3,600 Africans living in the Kakuma Refugee Camps of northern Kenya, in villages of southern Sudan, northern, central, and western Uganda and in the Province of North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo.

These respondents named themselves as Animists, Anglicans, Catholics, Christians, Muslims, followers of “other religions” and of no religion. A
variety of questions were put to them concerning their living situations, needs, and availability of help for these needs, the use of, and trust in, sources of information, and their hopes for the future.

This paper presents the results of these interviews, indicating significant differences in how people in post-conflict situations define their place in the world, where they seek the information needed to begin new lives and re?establish communities, and make use of media, including newspapers, radio, and mobile telephones, in the effort to stay connected to family that were often scattered by conflict.

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