An Independent Press Working Against Famine: the Nigerian Experience
In: The journal of modern African studies: a quarterly survey of politics, economics & related topics in contemporary Africa, Band 26, Heft 2, S. 337-345
Abstract
The proposition that an independent press can play an extremely positive rôle in focusing attention on, and directing a response to, a food-crisis situation has been put forth by Amartya Sen, who has attempted to explain differential successes in preventing famines partly on this basis,1 supported convincingly in the Indian context by N. Ram,2 editor of the influential newspaper, The Hindu (Madras). As a contribution to the evidence in favour of this proposition, and its relevance to Africa, this article examines the contribution made by one newspaper during 1973–1974 in mediating the public and governmental response to the famine which struck the north of Nigeria.
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