nigerian newspapers

PORTRAYAL OF NIGERIAN WOMEN'S ASSERTIVENESS IN NIGERIAN NEWSPAPERS
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The discursive involvement of women in the question of their disempowerment in Nigeria has not been adequately treated. This book consequently looks at the assertiveness content of Nigerian women���s linguistic and pictorial self-representation in Nigerian newspapers. It assessed the women���s empowerment level over a decade after the 1995 Beijing Conference. At the conference, the mass media was accused of habitually misrepresenting women, linguistically and pictorially, to perpetuate the perceived oppressive patriarchal order. Critical Discourse Analysis was used to broadly interrogate women���s power location in the Nigerian newspapers. It found that the women appeared linguistically and pictorially self-assertive, while their underlying cognition seemingly indicated consent to patriarchal hegemony. Women are thus found to be key contributors to their continued non-empowerment through negative linguistic and pictorial self-representations that suggested their acceptance of the patriarchal ���status quo���.

NIGERIAN AFFAIRS: ONE PERSPECTIVE: Collection of Published Newspaper Articles, 1985 to 1995
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This book is a collection of my articles written as freelance columnist and published in Nigeria's national newspapers between 1985 and 1995. My article , "The proper meaning of underdevelopment," attracted several published comments from readers. This type of public reaction, a reaction that continued even with regard to subsequent newspaper articles, gave me unqualified fulfillment. I suddenly found a niche, a forum where I could take on policies and actions of government in the full glare of the public, without being branded a rabble rouser by the authorities. At least this was my reasoning until 1995. After the June 12, 1994 Presidential elections, annulled by General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, my freelance newspaper contributions assumed a different tone. Between 1994 and 1995, my freelance newspaper articles were becoming a source of worry for my family. Late General Sanni Abacha had embarked on total annihilation of the opposition. My immediate and extended families were not so sure whether or not it was safe to continue writing in the vein that I was. Their concern was probably not misplaced since I had called for, in one of my articles, for the political break-up of Nigeria. I thus became one of the earliest writers to publicly called for the political redefinition of Nigeria as a political entity. Virtually all the articles contained in this collection were the result of government action or inaction. Topics ranged from poverty to the arbitrary creation of local government units to the futility of military incursion into politics. This book captures a very important portion of Nigeria's political and social history. As a book of articles and therefore socio-political commentaries, it is useful. Issues discussed in these articles are still as relevant today as they were when they were first published. The issue of the political future of Nigeria as a nation, the relationship between the center and the constituent parts, the problem of poverty and many more

Women Who Cross Borders - Black Magic?: A critical discourse analysis of the Norwegian newspaper coverage of Nigerian women in prostitution in Norway
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In Norway there has, since the end of the 1990's, been reported an increased number of foreign women in prostitution. The increase has led to changes within the local prostitution scene, due to the fact that Norwegian women who support their drug abuse by prostitution has left the market or become less visible. The Norwegian media repeatedly describe the phenomenon by using words such as explosions, invasions and floods of foreign prostitutes. It has especially been the Nigerian group of women who have received massive media attention, as media could report an increase from two Nigerian women in 2003, to approximately four hundred within 2006. Nigerian women were,in the period studied, described as more visible, not only because of their ethnicity, but also because they behaved differently from other groups of women. The public outcry especially escalated when the prostitution scene became an increasingly visible element in Oslo?s parade street Karl Johan. Nigerian women were in the public eye presented, in every way possible, as being a ?matter out of place?, and as doing the wrong things in the wrong places.