Media, Ethnic Hegemony and Conflict in Africa: The Northern-Southern Nigerian Media Reportage on Insurgency | ||
| International Journal of Development | ||
| Article 3, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2024, Pages 39-53 | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/AJBS.2024.360933 | ||
| Author | ||
| Tajudeen Odebode Ishola* | ||
| Lagos State University, Ojo, Nigeria Faculty of Arts Department of Religions and Peace Studies Peace Studies Unit | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This study analyzing the media reportage on insurgence issues in the Northern-Southern Nigerian, where there is need for the reporters to be professionally inclined not to create conflict in transforming conflicts. The insurgence group had their motive to create disharmony, fear, confusion, and misunderstanding to achieve their nefarious desires on the nation’s states. It is the responsibility of the media to understand the significance of their profession to operate in critical form for the government to search for a new course for the one becoming of the insurgence group < br />through the media reportage. As a concomitant draw out, the study will enrich the literature on the nature of the media reportage on global terrorism, and insurgence groups on the rise in Africa. The study of this nature increases and improves scholars and experts on insurgence media reportage and tailors their expertise skills towards peace journalism. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Media; Ethnic Hegemony; Conflict; Africa; Nigerian Media; Reportage; Insurgency | ||
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