Both parties are motivated and united by the objective to strengthen the role of the independent media and to make a valuable contribution towards media sustainability and democratization across Africa. AMI and KAS Media Africa have been at the forefront of bringing together African media leaders and owners to discuss and share experiences and challenges. KAS Media Africa has successfully funded nine editions of the African Media Leadership Conference (AMLC) series. In 2008, AMI started the African Media Leaders Forum (AMLF), the largest gathering of media owners and operators from around the African continent.

“These are exciting times in the media world and it is the perfect moment to combine our forces”, says Markus Brauckmann, Director of KAS Media Africa, “We feel that our target group of top media players will benefit from the joint conference efforts more than ever before.”

Amadou Mahtar Ba, Chief Executive of the African Media Initiative (AMI) said: “We are particularly glad that KAS Media Africa is bringing their first-rate experience to the African Media Leaders Forum. AMLF has definitely become the premium media marketplace and networking opportunity on the continent for top media owners and operators and we look very much forward to Tunis 2011.”

About AMI

The African Media Initiative (AMI) is a pan African media development organization headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. AMI aims to strengthen the media sector, from an owner and operator perspective, so that it can play its full role in promoting social development, economic growth and in empowering citizens to hold governments and other institutions to account. It does so by acting as a catalyst for transformational change within the industry through a set of strategic activities aimed at transforming the sector to become more professional, financially sustainable, technologically adaptable and socially responsible.

About KAS Media Africa

The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung is a foundation from the Federal Republic of Germany. As an independent, non-government organization, it runs four international media programmes mandated to contribute to democratization. Within that framework, KAS Media Africa regards a free and independent media as crucial for democracy. Hence, it is committed in the region to a diverse media landscape, the monitoring role of journalism, as well as ethically-based political communication, with particular attention paid to digitalisation. KAS Media Africa is based in Johannesburg, South Africa.