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Efe M. Oghene
Public radio stations increasingly broadcast news in Nigerian Pidgin. Combining listener surveys in Warri and Benin City with analysis of bulletin scripts, this study asks whether Pidgin news reaches audiences that English news does not. It finds that Pidgin b…
Communication and Media StudiesIbrahim K. Musa
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 t…
Politics, Governance and Development