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This book explores how the media, and journalism in a cross-disciplinary sense, has treated conflicts in Nigeria, West Africa and the Sahel. Contributors connect theoretical foundations with practical experiences in the study of media, conflicts and national security, seeking to unravel the mediated and communication logic(s) in news coverage and analyse the media's role in pre-conflict, in-conflict and post-conflict discourses. The work maps out the impact of mediated narratives on security, risk, terrorism, banditry and general society, relying on local, on-the-spot and ontological cultural experiences in Africa, especially Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone and other parts of West Africa.
List of contents
Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION MEDIA CONFLICTS AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY QUESTION.- Chapter 2: Competitive Prisms of Conflict Communication and the Mediated Politics of Reporting Crises in West Africa: From Boko Haram to Military Coup detats.- CHAPTER 3: Evaluating Diasporas and Migrants Perspectives on Conflicts and Insecurity The Case of Nigerian Nigerien Burkinabe Ghanaian Guinean and Liberian Diasporas.- Chapter 4: Cross-Disciplinary Approach in Theoretical Underpinnings of Media Conflict Peace and National Security.- Chapter 5: Understanding the West African Media Landscape in Times of Conflicts.- Chapter 6: Media Military Relationship in Nigeria Context Practices and Constraints.- Chapter 7: POLICE CIVILITY AND THE MEDIA NEWS COVERAGE AND POLICING IN AN AGE OF DEMOCRATIC TURBULENCE.- Chapter 8:Emerging Conflicts in Nigeria and Sahel Region Professionalism and Challenges of Media Reportage.- Chapter 9: Media Gender and Conflict in West Africa.- Chapter 10: Mediating National Security Citizenship and Public Communication.- Chapter 11: Mapping Political Elections Induced Conflicts in W Africa Competition and the Origins of National Security Crises.- Chapter 12: Natural Resource Conflicts and Good Governance in West Africa.- Chapter 13: NIGERIAN MEDIA NARRATIVES ON THE LAKE CHAD BASIN CONFLICTS.- Chapter 14: Print Media Conflict Prevention and Management in NkonyaAlavanyo Ghana.- Chapter 15: Communicating Conflict Government and Medias Approaches in the August 2022 Protests and November 2023 Attempted Coup detat in Sierra Leone.- Chapter 16: Identity and the Narratives of Conflict in Nigerian Media.- Chapter 17: Navigating Journalistic Imperative with Responsibility in Media Coverage of Security Issues in West Africa and the Sahel.- Chapter 18: An Appraisal of Conflict and the Nigerian Cyberspace with Implications for West African Cybersecurity.- Chapter 19: Media Coverage of Security Agencies and the Challenges of Source Management.- Chapter 20: Indigenous Media and the Quest for Sustainable Peace in Nigeria.
About the author
Abiodun Adeniyi is Professor and Dean of the School of Postgraduate Studies at Baze University, Nigeria. He has written for the Guardian and covered various beats in Lagos and Abuja for over a decade. He is the author of Diasporic Communication in the Digital Age and From Newsroom to Classroom: Notions of Media Theory and Practice in Africa.
Paul A. Obi is a lecturer at the Department of Mass Communication at Baze University. Between 2009 and 2018, he worked as a journalist with THIS DAY in Nigeria. He has more than 20 publications in edited volumes and international peer-reviewed journals, and is co-author of Media and Nigeria's Constitutional Democracy: Civic Space, Free Speech, and the Battle for Freedom of the Press.
Sani K. Usman, mni, is a retired Brigadier General and public relations, strategic communication, and security expert. Usman previously served as Director of Public Relations for the Nigerian Army and is currently a doctoral student at the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, Nigeria.
Ibrahim U. Yusuf is a Lecturer with the Department of Mass Communication at University of Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria. He was previously General Manager of radio station Lafiya Dole. He has published over 20 articles, book chapters and book reviews in international, national and local journals in the areas of broadcasting, Hausa home videos, media and conflicts and cultural communication.
Summary
This book explores how the media, and journalism in a cross-disciplinary sense, has treated conflicts in Nigeria, West Africa and the Sahel. Contributors connect theoretical foundations with practical experiences in the study of media, conflicts and national security, seeking to unravel the mediated and communication logic(s) in news coverage and analyse the media's role in pre-conflict, in-conflict and post-conflict discourses. The work maps out the impact of mediated narratives on security, risk, terrorism, banditry and general society, relying on local, on-the-spot and ontological cultural experiences in Africa, especially Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone and other parts of West Africa.
