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Title:Authoritarian State, Crisis of Democratization and the Underground Media in Nigeria
Author:Olukotun, AyoISNI
Year:2002
Periodical:African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society
Volume:101
Issue:404
Period:July
Pages:317-342
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:press
resistance
radio
Politics and Government
Literature, Mass Media and the Press
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/3518537
Abstract:This article offers a perspective on State-civil society relations during Nigeria's recent dictatorship (1993-1999), by documenting opposition to the military State mounted by two guerrilla journals and a pirate radio station. Drawing on primary and secondary data, including interviews conducted between August and October 2001, the article discusses the antecedents, profiles and oppositional posture of the guerrilla media in the throes of democratic struggle. The media discussed - 'Tell' magazine, 'The News' and Radio Kudirat - were preponderantly located in the southwest region of Nigeria, as are the bulk of the Nigerian media. Throughout the article a case-study approach is employed to underline how a vigorous civil society can check the encroachment of a repressive, authoritarian State. Notes, ref., sum.
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