MEDIA COVERAGE OF CONFLICTS IN AFRICA

Description

This book project was conceived in 2017 while the Editor served as Chair of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, University Buea. The intention is to document, in a scientific manner, how the mass media have covered the ongoing Cameroon Anglophone Conflict, to establish and assess the roles and responsibilities of the media in the conflict for posterity, stocktaking and amelioration of media performance and contribution in society and nation-building. The book has eleven chapters and twelve contributors. Except for the introduction and conclusion, all other chapters are co-authored. The approach is scientific with both quantitative and qualitative data collection, analysis, presentation, and interpretation techniques. 55 € / 65 $ Kingsley Lyonga NGANGE (Ph.D.) is an Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication (JMC) and Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research, Cooperation and Relations with the Business World, University of Buea (UB), Cameroon. He is a Fulbright Visiting African Research Scholar at the Brechner Center for Freedom of Information, in the College of Journalism and Communications, University of Florida for the 2023/2024 academic year. He is a former broadcast journalist with the Cameroon Radio Television Corporation (CRTV) and former Chair of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Buea.