Title: Mobilizing for Change: The Press and the Struggle for Citizenship in Democratic Nigeria
Abstract: In this chapter, I suggest that in the absence of a conceptual integration of communication and citizenship, we cannot adequately explore the transformation from subject status (under colonial and nondemocratic systems) to citizenship1 (under democratic systems), the ongoing negotiations of democratic citizenship rights, and the manner in which the practices of the media have largely defined the terrain of the political in some parts of Africa. This is particularly true in Nigeria where, from the colonial era, nationalist struggles and media practices were so intertwined that the leading nationalists were almost always practicing journalists and vice versa.2 KeywordsPrint MediumRadical CitizenshipAssociational LifeNational QuestionAustralian CitizenshipThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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