Boko Haram and the Media

African Perspective, Central Africa, Ethics, Fake News, Human Rights, Journalism, Media, Objectivity, OpinionLeave a comment

Boko Haram is a mil­i­tant group pri­mar­i­ly locat­ed in Nige­ria. The ter­ror­ist orga­ni­za­tion is fight­ing to over­throw the Niger­ian gov­ern­ment and cre­ate an Islam­ic state. Nige­ria is a very reli­gious coun­try with Chris­tian­i­ty and Islam­ic faith being its most pre­dom­i­nant reli­gions and hav­ing a near­­ly-equal ratio split between them. Accord­ing to Hei­di Schultz, an author on…

Bad Africa Report from NYT Concerns CU Professor

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I did not know many of the reports Peter S. Good­man allud­ed to in his Jan­u­ary 27 arti­cle in The New York Times had come out until Uni­ver­si­ty of Col­orado (CU) pro­fes­sor of Anthro­pol­o­gy Lau­ra Delu­ca drew my atten­tion to them. Delu­ca spends much of her time learn­ing about the African con­ti­nent and inter­act­ing with its…