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Title:Flow of News between India and Africa during Times of Crisis
Author:Eswara, H.S.
Year:1969
Periodical:Africa Quarterly
Volume:9
Issue:1
Period:April-June
Pages:15-22
Language:English
Geographic terms:Africa
India
Subjects:mass communication
Literature, Mass Media and the Press
international relations
Abstract:Examines the hypothesis of crisis coverage by analysing the news flow between African nations and India for a period of about two weeks during January 1966. Such an hypothesis has been suggested by William A. Hachten in his contention that 'the news flow from less developed nations is closely related to the occurrence of conflict and/or catastrophe'. This study includes three African countries - Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa - and India. These countries were during the period of study under political crisis: Lagos riots. Army revolt and coup d'etat in Nigeria and the murder of the Nigerian Prime Minister and other high officials, the signing of the Tashkent declaration by Indian Prime Minister Shastri and Pakistan President Ayub Khan, Shastri's death in Tashkent and his cremation in New Delhi, the election of Mrs. Indira Gandhi as India's new Prine Minister, and the Rhodesian crisis in Africa. Kenya and South Africa during that period were undergoing 'normal' life, although somewhat disturbed by the Rhodesian crisis, but serve in this study as controls against which the news coverage under crisis is compared and evaluated. Ref.
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