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Title: | Authoritarian State, Crisis of Democratization and the Underground Media in Nigeria |
Author: | Olukotun, Ayo |
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. |