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“If the American demonstrations are sometimes ignored by their own mainstream media, who are we, scattered all over villages in Africa, to expect our issues to attract their screens and cameras?” This question was what inspired Isis-Women’s International Cross-Cultural Exchange (Isis-WICCE), to resort to the convergence of media and communication to advance its agenda. The urgent task was to develop mechanisms that would communicate women’s ideas and allow them to forge solidarity action plans, to exchange information and strategies despite the challenges before them of poor communication infrastructure, high level of illiteracy among majority of women and the conflict situation amidst them.