Media and the war on terror in Africa

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Title:	Media and the war on terror in Africa
Editors:	Franks, Suzanne Shaw, Ibrahim Seaga
Year:	2012
Periodical:	Journal of African Media Studies (ISSN 1751-7974)
Volume:	4
Issue:	1
Pages:	3-96
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	Africa Kenya Niger Nigeria Sierra Leone United States
Subjects:	terrorism mass media
Abstract:	The articles in this dossier, which are partly based on papers presented at the 'Global media and the 'war on terror'' conference held in London in September 2010, question how 'terrorism' is defined in the mass media and analyse some of the factors that have influenced how the mass media have covered the 'war on terror' in Africa. After an introduction by Suzanne Franks and Ibrahim Seaga Shaw on reported and unreported global emergencies, the dossier includes five articles: Terrorism and news of Africa post-9/11 coverage in 'The New York Times' (Virgil Hawkins); The 'war on terror' frame and 'Washington Post''s linking of the Sierra Leone civil war to 9/11 and al-Qaeda: implications for US foreign policy in Africa (Ibrahim Sega Shaw); 'Nigeria as a country of interest in terrorism': newspaper framing of Farouk Abdulmutallab, the underwear bomber (Mercy Ette); A grey area: the Nigerien Sahel in the French media (Gado Alzaouma); and Editorial cartoons and the war on terror in Kenya's print media (Duncan Omanga). Bibliogr., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract]