Journal of Communication & Language Arts

Volume 3, Number 1, 2009

A SPECIAL ISSUE ON MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA             

Contents

Anthony A. Olorunnisola

Guest Editor’s Note                                                                                                                                  7

Aretha Asakitikpi and Remi Akujobi

Minority versus Majority Rule in Nigeria’s Democracy:

The role of the Mass Media                                                                                                  11

Lusike Lynete Mukhongo

The Kenyan Media: Confronting State Terror and

Atrocities                                                                                                                                            26

Terje S. Skjerdal and Hallelujah Lule

Uneven Performances by the Private Press in Ethiopia:

An Analysis of 18 Years of Press Freedom                                                                      44

Innocent Okoye

Civic Engagement in Northern Nigeria: A Study of

Students of Two Higher Institutions in the Kaduna

Metropolis                                                                                                                                            60

Anthony A. Olorunnisola

Democratization, Mass Media, and Civil Society: A

Discourse of Interlocking Paradoxes                                                                                    79             

Contributors’ Biographies                                                                                                                105

Special Issue Reviewers                                                                                                                107