1. Introduction (Kehbuma Langmia).-Part I Afrocentric Communication Theories.- 2. The Classical African Concept of Maat and Human Communication (Molefi Kete Asante).- 3. Cognitive Hiatus and the White Validation Syndrome: An Afrocentric Analysis (Ama Mazama).- Part II Africana Communication Theories.

- 4. Igbo Communication Styles: Conceptualizing Ethnic Communication Theory (Uchenna Onuzulike).- 5. Kuelekea Nadharia Ujamaa Mawasiliano: Toward a Familyhood Communication Theory (Abdul Karim Bangura).- 6. Afro-Cultural Mulatto Communication Theory (Kehbuma Langmia).- 7. Venerative Speech Theory and African Communalism: A Geo-Cultural Perspective (Bala A.

Musa).- 8. Africana Symbolic Contextualism Theory (Faith Nguru and Agnes Lucy Lando).- 9. The HaramBuntu-Government-Diaspora Relationship Management Theory (Stella-Monica N. Mpande).- 10. Dynamism: N'digbo and Communication in Post-Modernism (Chuka Onwumechili).

- 11. Consciencist Communication Theory: Expanding the Epistemology on Nkrumahism (Abdul Karim Bangura).- Part III African American Communication Theories.- 12. Afrocentricity of the Whole: Bringing Women and LGBTQIA Voices in from the Theoretical Margins (Natalie Hopkinson and Taryn K. Myers).- 13. New Frames: A Pastiche of Theoretical Approaches to Examine African American and Diasporic Communication (Gracie Lawson-Borders).

- Part IV Latin America & Caribbean Communication Theories.- 14. Creolized Media Theory: An Examination of Local Cable Television in Jamaica as Hybrid Upstarts (Nickesia S. Gordon).- 15. Caribbean Communication: Social Mediation Through the Caribbean ICT Virtual Community (CIVIC) (Roger Caruth).- 16. Color Privileges, Humor, and Dialogues: Theorizing How People of African Descent in Brazil Communicatively Manage Stigmatization and Racial Discrimination (Juliana Maria da Silva Trammel).