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Regional Parallelism and Corruption Scandals in Nigeria is a ground-breaking book that offers fresh perspectives on the character and role of the African media in covering corruption scandals. It explores whether reports regarding corruption stem from the
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Regional Parallelism and Corruption Scandals in Nigeria
Muhammad Jameel Yusha’u
Regional Parallelism and Corruption Scandals in Nigeria Intranational Approaches to African Media Systems
Muhammad Jameel Yusha’u Uni Focus Academy Kano, Nigeria
ISBN 978-3-319-96219-1 ISBN 978-3-319-96220-7 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96220-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018950916 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover credit: vkovalcik/iStock/Getty Images Plus Cover design by Ran Shauli This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
To Bayero University, Kano Where my intellectual journey began
Preface
This is the first major study that applies a comparative approach to media systems research in Africa from an intranational rather than cross-national perspective by studying the media systems of three countries. Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa. This is quite important because previous studies in comparative media research such as Hallin and Mancini’s Comparing Media Systems (2004), Blumler and Gurevitchs’s Crisis in Public Communication (1995) and Hallin and Mancini’s Comparing Media Systems: Beyond the Western World (2012) and the famous Four Theories of the Press by Siebert et al. (1956) focused on cross national comparative research. Africa has a different historical journey, with most of the countries created by colonial borders, combining nations within nations, yet under the same national flag. Nigeria is a typical example of this where the amalgamation of the country in 1914 brought together different nations into a single nation state. However, the character of the media still reflects the context of the pre-colonial
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