Darryl Accone
Below is a list of participants including journalists, country representatives, authors and observers who attended the seminar on promoting an Independent and Pluralistic African Press, Windhoek in 1991 where the Declaration of Windhoek was produced and signed.
| Country | Participants |
| Algeria | Omar Belhouchet |
| Mayouf Zoubir Souissi | |
| Angola | Joaquim Pinto Andrade |
| Benin | Ismaёl Yves Soumanou |
| Thomas Megnassan | |
| Botswana | Methaetsile Leepile |
| Burkina Faso | Albert Mbonerane |
| Cameroon | Pius N. Njawe |
| Paddy Mbawa | |
| Chad | Saleh Kebzabo |
| Côte d’Ivoire | Issiaka Tao |
| Paul Arnaud | |
| Democratic Republic of Congo | Léon Moukanda Lunyama |
| Djibouti | Ismail Tani |
| France | Sennen Andriamirado |
| Michel Duteil | |
| Philippe Maeght | |
| Gambia | Sanna Manneh |
| Ghana | Ajoa Yeboah-Afari |
| Paul Ansah | |
| John Nyankumah | |
| Guinea | Sankarela Diallo |
| Guinea-Bissau | Francisco Barreto De Carvalho |
| Kenya | Mohamed Amin |
| George Odiko | |
| Stephen Musalia Mwenesi | |
| Lesotho | Mike Pitso |
| Liberia | Kenneth Yakpawolo Best |
| Madagascar | Rahaga Ramaholimihaso |
| Malawi | Janet Zeenat Karim |
| Al Osman | |
| Mauritius | Gérard Cateaux |
| Namibia | Gwen Lister |
| Niger | Ibrahim Cheick Diop |
| Nigeria | Sam Amuka |
| Lewis Obi | |
| Kaye Whiteman | |
| Senegal | Abdoulaye Bamba Diallo |
| Sierra Leone | Paul Kamara |
| South Africa | Rory Wilson |
| Anton Harber | |
| Rafiq Rohan | |
| Sudan | Bona Malwal |
| Swaziland | Sabelo Gabriel Nxumalo |
| Tanzania | Fili Karashani |
| Togo | Komi Agah |
| Vincent Traoré | |
| Tunisia | Ismail Boulahia |
| Salah Fourti | |
| Mohamed Ben Salah | |
| Uganda | Alfred Okware |
| Aloysius Bbosa | |
| James Namakajo | |
| United Kingdom | Shamlal Puri |
| Alan Rake | |
| United States of America | Dennis Schick |
| Zambia | Francis Kasoma |
| Goodwin Mwangilwa | |
| Zimbabwe | Geoffrey Takawira Chada |
| Onesimo Makani-Kabweza | |
| Hugh Lewin | |
| Andrew Moyse | |
| Geoffrey Nyarota | |
| Govin Reddy | |
Observers: Non-Governmental Organisations
| African American Institute | Louis Africa |
| African Council on Communication Education | Kwame Boafo |
| All Africa Press Service | Jeff Mburre |
| Article 19 | Martin Breum |
| Le Centre d’Etudes des Sciences et Techniques de l’Information (CESTI) | Birahim Moussa Guèye |
| International Olympic Committee | Fekrou Kidane |
| Commonwealth Association for Education in Journalism and Communication | Richard Sakala |
| Commonwealth Press Union | Derek Ingram |
| Federation of African Media Women (FAMW) | Jennifer Sibanda |
| Ford Foundation | Anthony Hodges |
| Friedrich Naumann Stiftung | Hartmut Hohlbein |
| Index on Censorship | Adewale Maja-Pearce |
| International Institute of Journalism | Hannelore Knott |
| Inter Press Service | Roberto Savio |
| Dede Amanor-Wilks | |
| International Organisation of Journalists | Christophe Muzavazi |
| International Public Relations Association (IPRA) | Charles van der Straten-Waillet |
| New World Outlook Magazine | Ezekiel Makunike |
| Reporters sans Frontières / Reporters Without Borders | Robert Menard |
| Chantal de Casabianca | |
| Thomson Foundation | Val Williams |
| l’Union catholique internationale de la presse (UCIP) | Joseph Chittilappilly |
| West African Journalists’ Association – WAJA | Muhamed Sani Zorro |
| Abdoulaye Ndiaga Sylla | |
| World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) | Horace Etemesi |
Observers: Intergovernmental Organisations
| Commonwealth Secretariat | Patsy Robertson |
| Organisation of African Unity | Olga Lima |
| Pan-African News Agency (PANA) | Auguste Mpassi-Muba |
Observers: Member States of United Nations and / or UNESCO
| Angola | Dario Mendes De Melo |
| Herminia Barbosa | |
| Carlos Almeida | |
| Cameroon | Engelbert Ngog-Hob |
| Samuel Asunkwan | |
| China | Wengi Teng |
| Cuba | Esther Armenteros |
| Democratic People’s Republic of Korea | Tae Yang Chong |
| Egypt | Awatef Abdel Rahman |
| Finland | Osmo Welling |
| France | Brigitte Guien-Vidon |
| Germany | Henning Melber |
| W.K.J. Ringe | |
| Malawi | Nelson Mkwapatira |
| Stanislas Ndeule Chisanu | |
| Netherlands | Pieter L. Den Heiger |
| Nigeria | Obi Egbunike |
| Portugal | Fernando Tavares Rodrigues |
| Romania | Mihai Cuc |
| Spain | Carlos Sanchez De Boado |
| Sudan | Moniem Elamin |
| Sweden | Anneli Lindahl Kenny |
| Switzerland | François Nordmann |
| Former USSR | Pavel Pavlov |
| India | Shiv Mukherjee |
| Namibia | Daniel Tjongarero |
| Tuli Nghiyoonanye | |
| Manfred Dedekind | |
| Mocks Shirute | |
| Tara Shinavene | |
| Farayi Munyuki | |
| United States of America | Helen Picard |
| Sean Kelly | |
| Zimbabwe | E.H. Chikwanha |
Observers: Organisations of the United Nations System
| FAO | Omar Salah Ahmed |
| UNFPA | Bill Musoko |
| UNICEF | Edith Simmons |
Sources:Seminar on Promoting an Independent and Pluralistic African Press, Windhoek, 1991; final report. Pg 31 – 42 https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000090758
Guy Berger, Media in Africa report 2011: https://action-namibia.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Media-in-Africa.pdf
MISA Press Freedom Award statementMedia Institute of Southern Africa (MISA), September 08, 2006http://archive.kubatana.net/html/archive/media/060908misa.asp?sector=MEDIA&year=2006&range_start=91 Special thanks to Gwen Lister, The Namibian for helping with sourcing the list.
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