Think imperially

The private press mediation of state policy and the global economy within colonial and postcolonial Nigeria

Bibliographic Data

ID9400712
AuthorsPhilippa Hall (University of Lancashire, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume1
Issue2
Pages247-262
Publication date2009-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of African Media Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1751-7974 • E-ISSN: 2040-199X
PublisherIntellect (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1386/jams.1.2.247_1
OpenAlexW1998987331
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited28

Many writers have argued that critical voices in the private press denouncing the military state indicated the presence of a resilient civil society in Nigeria since 1985. This article locates the advocacy of the press as watchdog of the state within the discourse of structural adjustment policy in order to examine the extent to which the private press constitutes an autonomous public sphere of debate within Nigerian civil society. It is argued that under structural adjustment programmes, education budget cuts and higher living costs diminish popular participation in press debates. While some civil society groups have contested government policies under colonialism and structural adjustment, this article examines how private Nigerian press publications have worked within the terms of successive political regimes to mediate the interests of the commercial elite within the global economy

Civil society · Colonialism · Economics · Elite · Government (linguistics · Mediation · Order (exchange · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · African Education and Politics · African history and culture studies · Law · Public Administration

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