Radio Call-In Programmes and the Making of Public Reason in Nigeria
- Ibrahim K. Musa(corresponding author)
- Department of Mass Communication, Sample University (SAMPLE)
- * Corresponding author
- Pages
- pp. 64–80
- DOI
- Assigned once JHTS joins Crossref
- Received
- 28 November 2026
- Accepted
- 16 February 2027
- Published
- 28 March 2027
- Licence
- OA CC BY 4.0
Abstract
Call-in programmes on Nigerian radio give ordinary listeners a rare public platform. This paper develops a theoretical account of these programmes as sites of public reason, drawing on Habermas and on African theories of communal deliberation. It argues that the genre’s conventions, the greeting, the testimony and the presenter’s summing-up, create a distinctive form of reasoned exchange that the idealised public sphere does not capture.
Cite this article
Musa, I. K. (2027). Radio Call-In Programmes and the Making of Public Reason in Nigeria. Journal of Humanities and Transcultural Studies, 1(1), 64–80. http://localhost:3000/articles/radio-call-in-programmes-and-public-reason