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Mobilizing for Change: The Press and the Struggle for Citizenship in Democratic Nigeria

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In this chapter, I suggest that in the absence of a conceptual integration of communication and citizenship, we cannot adequately explore the transformation from subject status (under colonial and nondemocratic systems) to citizenship1 (under democratic systems), the ongoing negotiations of democratic citizenship rights, and the manner in which the practices of the media have largely defined the terrain of the political in some parts of Africa. This is particularly true in Nigeria where, from the colonial era, nationalist struggles and media practices were so intertwined that the leading nationalists were almost always practicing journalists and vice versa.2

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Adebanwi, W. (2013). Mobilizing for Change: The Press and the Struggle for Citizenship in Democratic Nigeria. In: Contesting the Nigerian State. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137324535_4

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