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  1. Stunted growth: An exploration into the failures of African-language newspapers, Imvo Zabantsundu in focus

    Article • July 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  2. Nigerian blogosphere and identity change of women

    Article • Communicare Journal for Communication Studies in Africa, October 2022, University of Johannesburg

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  3. Indigenous Knowledge Systems in the 21st Century: Recognising and Harnessing their worth

    Article • South African Review of Sociology, July 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  4. Facebook groups as transnational counter public sphere for diasporic communities

    Article • Cogent Arts and Humanities, January 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  5. Indigenous-language Media Research in Africa: Gains, Losses, Towards a New Research Agenda

    Article • African Journalism Studies, November 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  6. Influence of African Indigenous language media in COVID-19 digital health messaging

    Article • Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies, October 2021, Intellect

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  7. An evaluation of constructive journalism in Zimbabwe: A case study of The Herald’s coverage of the coronavirus pandemic

    Article • Journal of African Media Studies, September 2021, Intellect

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  8. Critical reflections on erotic content in Star FM’s Couples quality time and Ya FM’s Moto mubhurugwa (fire in underwear)

    Article • African Identities, July 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  9. Mainstream English Language Press Journalists’ Perceptions Towards the Indigenous-Language Press in Zimbabwe

    Article • African Journalism Studies, July 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  10. Training for English language or indigenous language media journalism: A decolonial critique of Zimbabwean journalism and media training institutions’ training practices

    Article • Journal of African Media Studies, June 2020, Intellect

    Professor Abiodun Salawu, Albert Chibuwe

  11. Framing of the 2019 Nigerian presidential election in Alaroye Newspaper

    Article • African Renaissance, March 2020, Adonis and Abbey Publishers

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  12. African language use in the digital public sphere: Functionality of the localised Google webpage in Zimbabwe

    Article • South African Journal of African Languages, January 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  13. Handling of Sexually Offensive Expressions on Zimbabwe's Selected Radio Stations

    Article • January 2020, IGI Global

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  14. On Bended Knees: Investigative Journalism and Changing Media Culture in Nigeria

    Article • Media Watch, January 2020, SAGE Publications

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  15. Multilingual broadcasting in post-2000 Zimbabwe: Design, implementation and language parity

    Article • Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, October 2019, Informa UK Limited

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  16. Are radio programmes via indigenous languages the solution? A study of Igbo scholars’ assessment of the effectiveness of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in promoting African languages

    Article • African Renaissance, March 2019, Adonis and Abbey Publishers

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  17. Newspapers’ compliance with the code of election coverage of the 2015 elections and citizens participation : implication for journalism education and professionalism

    Article • African Renaissance, March 2019, Adonis and Abbey Publishers

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  18. A survey of communication media preferred by smallholder farmers in the Gweru District of Zimbabwe

    Article • Journal of Rural Studies, February 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  19. Folk Theatre: a potent vehicle for rural transformation

    Article • Journal of Multicultural Discourses, January 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Kevin Onyenankeya, Professor Abiodun Salawu

  20. Interrogating the Autonomy of Previously Marginalised Languages in Zimbabwe's Indigenous-Language Press

    Article • Language Matters, January 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  21. Negotiating water conservation communication through indigenous media

    Article • Communitas, December 2018, University of the Free State

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  22. Partisanship and selective reporting in Nigerian newspapers’ coverage of elections

    Article • African Renaissance, December 2018, Adonis and Abbey Publishers

    Professor Abiodun Salawu, Dr Babatunde Raphael Ojebuyi

  23. Media roles in disseminating strategies for teaching and learning indigenous languages: The case of South Africa’s language-in-education policy in post-apartheid era

    Article • Cogent Arts and Humanities, November 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  24. Linguistic disenfranchisement, minority resistance and language revitalisation: The contributions of ethnolinguistic online communities in Zimbabwe

    Article • Cogent Arts and Humanities, November 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  25. African Language Digital Media and Communication

    Article • October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  26. Re-examining the indigenous language press in Zimbabwe: Towards developmental communication and language empowerment

    Article • South African Journal of African Languages, September 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  27. Culture of sensationalism and indigenous language press in Zimbabwe: implications on language development

    Article • African Identities, May 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  28. A survey of communication effectiveness by agricultural extension in the Gweru district of Zimbabwe

    Article • Journal of Rural Studies, May 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  29. Interdisciplinarity and Indigenous Language Media: Understanding Language Choices in Zimbabwe’s Media

    Article • Language Matters, January 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  30. Accounting for youth audiences’ resistances to HIV and AIDS messages in the television drama Tsha Tsha in South Africa

    Article • SAHARA-J Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS, January 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  31. Children, media and African development

    Article • SAGE Open, January 2018, SAGE Publications

    Olusola Oyero, Professor Abiodun Salawu

  32. Analysis of news photographs used by Nigerian newspaper to report terror acts

    Article • SAGE Open, January 2018, SAGE Publications

    Dr Babatunde Raphael Ojebuyi, Professor Abiodun Salawu

  33. Exploring Journalism Practice and Perception in Developing Countries

    Article • January 2018, IGI Global

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  34. Bridging Theory and Practice in Entertainment Education: An Assessment of the Conceptualization and Design of Tsha Tsha in South Africa

    Article • SAGE Open, January 2018, SAGE Publications

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  35. Impacts of the Media on African Socio-Economic Development

    Article • January 2017, IGI Global

    Professor Abiodun Salawu, Dr Babatunde Raphael Ojebuyi

  36. PATIENTS’ PERCEPTION OF DOCTOR-PATIENT HEALTH COMMUNICATION IN A RURAL COMMUNITY

    Article • Communitas, January 2017, University of the Free State

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  37. A survey of research foci and paradigms in media and communication Master's dissertations and doctoral theses in South Africa

    Article • Communicatio, January 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  38. Indigenous Language Media and Democracy in Africa

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  39. Indigenous Language Media, Language Politics and Democracy in Africa

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  40. Introduction: Language, Structure and Agency: Optimising Media Diversity in Africa Using the Indigenous Languages

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  41. NotIwe IrohinbutUmshumayeli: A revisit of the historiography of the early African language press

    Article • African Identities, February 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  42. A political economy of sub-Saharan African language press: the case of Nigeria and South Africa

    Article • Review of African Political Economy, February 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  43. Language policy, ideologies, power and the Ethiopian media

    Article • Communicatio, January 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  44. A political economy of African language press: Towards a management typology

    Article • Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies, January 2015, Intellect

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  45. Where Lies the Answer? HIV/AIDS Prevention Campaign and the Rising Prevalence in South Africa

    Article • Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, November 2014, Richtmann Publishing

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  46. A Tale of Failure: Indigenous Language Radio Broadcasting in Zimbabwe

    Article • Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, September 2014, Richtmann Publishing

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  47. Contributions of HIV/AIDS Social Networking Sites towards Awareness and Prevention of the Pandemic among Students of Rhodes University, South Africa

    Article • Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, April 2014, Richtmann Publishing

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  48. A Study of the Poverty Alleviation Communication Practices of the German Agro Action in Gokwe South Rural District of Zimbabwe

    Article • Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, November 2013, Richtmann Publishing

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  49. Access, local language and public sphere: Phone-in R/TV programme as a platform for citizen journalism in a Nigerian election

    Article • Telematics and Informatics, August 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  50. Communication and media studies in South Africa: Observations, impressions and remarks

    Article • Journal of African Media Studies, March 2013, Intellect

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  51. Investigating the use of social networking sites and their implications for HIV/Aids communication amongst Rhodes University students

    Article • Communicatio, April 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  52. The paradigm of ethical development for civilized leadership in Africa

    Article • Leadership, January 2012, SAGE Publications

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  53. A network of tongues: African languages, multilingualism and global communication

    Article • South African Journal of African Languages, January 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  54. The growth and development of African media studies: perspectives from Nigeria

    Article • Journal of African Media Studies, January 2009, Intellect

    Professor Abiodun Salawu

  55. Indigenous Language Media: A Veritable Tool for African Language Learning

    Article • Journal of Multicultural Discourses, July 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Abiodun Salawu