What is it about?
News reporting on conflict situations mainly manipulates discursive and representational strategies in portraying people, actions and events either negatively or positively based on certain prejudiced ideologies. This article examines salient discursive strategies deployed by Nigerian and Cameroonian newspapers to represent socio-political ideologies in their reports on the Bakassi Peninsula border conflict.
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The findings reveal that both countries’ reports create polarity of positive in-group and negative out-group ideologies through seven discursive strategies which include slanted headlining, negative labelling, evidentiality, number game, hyperbolism, victimization and depersonalization. The strategies embody ideological prejudices of positive self- and negative other-representations which are rife in both nations’ news reports on the disputed Peninsula.
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This research which was sponsored by American Council of Learned Societies/ African Humanities Program and CODESRIA has basically provided a case study from a part of the world that is underrepresented in the CDA literature on conflict while the multidisciplinary approach adopted has shown further light on the role of the media in border conflict mediation and resolution in Africa.
Ebuka IGWEBUIKE
Federal University Ndufu Alike
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This page is a summary of: Discursive strategies and ideologies in selected newspaper reports on the Nigerian-Cameroonian Bakassi peninsula border conflict, Communication and the Public, January 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/2057047317748500.
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