Imperial Britain and the challenge of press freedom in Nigeria during the Second World War

Mordi, Emmanuel Nwafor

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“…All evidences from various records pointed to a caged media system through draconian enactments and decrees. The enactments repressed the press struggle for independence of the country during colonial era (Mordi, 2017). Similarly, the decrees repressed the struggle to uphold fundamental human rights and the movement to restore democracy during military interregnums.…”

Section: Press Freedom In Nigeria: a Continuous Strugglementioning

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Nigerian press under political siege: social media salvage of press freedom in Fani-Kayode versus Charles of Daily Trust

Adelakun

Ademuyiwa

Oyebode

2021

JGSS

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Fani-Kayode versus Eyo Charles of Daily Trust saga compels research attention as it exhumed a new perspective to press struggle under political bondage in Nigeria. Nigerian journalists have been thrown into the towel on several occasions in the struggle to uphold press freedom as some were brutalised, molested, suppressed, bribed, or even intimidated with impunity while carrying out their democratic roles. The agitation not only for press freedom, the degree of independence that put the fourth estate of the realm on uninfluenced reportorial vantage but also a clear separation of media agenda power from politics of bankrolling beeps a light of redemption through social media rendition. Contents of mainstream and social media (Facebook, Twitter & YouTube) in the case of Fani-Kayode versus Charles were subjected to empirical analysis to test media efforts towards self-actualisation from political insubordinations. The data show that social media reign a significant influence on the salvage of press freedom taking “Who bankrolls your tour of states” tussle as a significant variable to compare the agenda and framing patterns the case under study enjoyed on social and mainstream media. The study found out that the media agenda might that recouped the press freedom from political intimidation and disparagement in the case under study was more than 90% social media strength. The mainstream media and their journalists got the inspiration for their belated actions from the battle already won through the social media agenda.

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Nigerian press under political siege: social media salvage of press freedom in Fani-Kayode versus Charles of Daily Trust

Adelakun

Ademuyiwa

Oyebode

2021

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“…Consequently, he challenges historians to urgently conduct more local studies of recruitment for military service and labour, 'if we are to advance our understanding of the war' (287)(288). The Nigerian case study has continued to await its historian, despite impressive scholarly publications on the war (Byfield, 2007(Byfield, , 2015Chuku, 2010;Crowder, 1974;Dumett, 1985;Falola, 1989Falola, , 1992Faluyi, 1989;Mordi, 2017a;Njoku, 1977Njoku, -1978Olusanya, 1973). It is thus a neglected theme in the historiography of Africa and the Second World War.…”

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What if the Huns Come? Imperial Britain’s Attitude Towards Nigerians’ Enthusiasm for Military Service During the Second World War, 1939–1942

Mordi

2019

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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In this article, Britain’s attitude towards Nigerians’ voluntary enlistment as combatants during the Second World War is studied. The historical method is deployed to interrogate previously untapped archival sources on the subject. Against the conventional wisdom, this micro-study posits Britain’s rebuff of Nigerians’ voluntary enlistment in order to preserve white supremacy by not arming and deploying Africans to fight Europeans. Nigerians protested the British treatment of the war as a white man’s war in which Africans had no significant role to play. Pressure on British manpower necessitated a policy reversal. Conscription was, thus, not due to Africans’ refusal to fight for Britain.

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World War II and Its Aftermath

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Understanding Colonial Nigeria

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Imperial Britain and the challenge of press freedom in Nigeria during the Second World War

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Nigerian press under political siege: social media salvage of press freedom in Fani-Kayode versus Charles of Daily Trust

Nigerian press under political siege: social media salvage of press freedom in Fani-Kayode versus Charles of Daily Trust

What if the Huns Come? Imperial Britain’s Attitude Towards Nigerians’ Enthusiasm for Military Service During the Second World War, 1939–1942

World War II and Its Aftermath

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