This article argues for a reconstruction of communication rights theories from an African episteme and experience. It reviews the impact of key national, continental and international legal instruments as they pertain to communication rights in Africa, with a specific focus on South Africa and Zimbabwe. Using an Afrokological heuristic tool, it critically evaluates how the key legal instruments underpinning the right to communicate are developed and encountered in lived experience in decolonising Southern African contexts. We argue that an Afrokological orientation built on epistemological interconnectedness and conviviality may lead to insights otherwise not accessible. It can help awaken a new relational accountability that promotes respectful representation, reciprocity, and rights in communication policy processes in line with the lived experiences of those it is meant to benefit.

本文主张从非洲的认识和经验重构传播权理论。它审查了与非洲通信权相关的主要国家、大陆和国际法律文书的影响，特别关注南非和津巴布韦。使用非洲学启发式工具，它批判性地评估了支持沟通权的关键法律文书是如何在非殖民化南部非洲背景下的生活经验中发展和遇到的。我们认为，建立在认识论的相互联系和欢乐的基础上的 Afrokological 方向可能会导致无法获得的见解。它可以帮助唤醒一种新的关系责任感，促进尊重代表、互惠、