Joseph Olusegun Adebayo

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Cape Peninsula University of Technology

The 2023 general election in Nigeria was among the nation's fiercest in recent history. The dynamics were different from past elections. For example, it was the first time since 2003 that Muhammadu Buhari, a cult-like figure in Northern Nigeria, was not on the ballot box. Buhari consistently garnered between eight and twelve million votes in every...

Overview In the context of the ongoing conflicts and social tensions in Nigeria, particularly in the northern region, there is an increasing necessity to reassess and reevaluate the indigenous methods of peacebuilding that have historically fostered harmony within various ethnic communities. While contemporary strategies for conflict resolution oft...

This collection of chapters delves into the intricate history and ongoing challenges of peacebuilding in Nigeria. It explores Nigeria’s complex sociopolitical landscape, tracing its roots from the amalgamation of 1914 to present-day conflicts. The chapters offer insightful analyses of various peacebuilding efforts in different regions of Nigeria, a...

The role of community radio in South Africa’s young democracy has received considerable scholarly attention (Bosch, 2014; Olorunnisola, , 2002; Tsarwe, 2014; Wabwire, 2013). However, what remains under-studied is the nexus between radio and youth empowerment, especially in underprivileged and underserved communities. This chapter seeks to fill that...

In mid-2021, the government of South Africa deployed troops from the South African National Defence Force to the troubled Northern Province of Mozambique as part of a Southern African Development Community regional force to quell the threat posed by insurgents in the country. Poignantly, the deployment happened at about the same time the United Sta...

This study examines the role community radio plays in fostering the economic empowerment of youths in the Cape Flats. Using Bush Radio as a case study, the researchers theoretically anchored the study on Dennis McQuail's (1987) media development theory. The study population comprised management staff, presenters, and listeners of Bush Radio. Findin...

Over the years, practitioners and stakeholders have regarded the practice of stakeholder engagement as a non-essential part of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The only standard corporate practice was to invest in developing CSR and sustainability programmes with minimal involvement of those they materially affect, also known as their stakeho...

Kenya and Nigeria have arguably Africa’s most boisterous media landscapes. Both countries also have similar sociocultural and sociopolitical milieus. Thus, the media’s effect on society, especially during the electoral process, in both countries is often identical. However, elections in Kenya and Nigeria, and indeed in most countries in Africa, are...

Approximately 70% of the world's cities are engaged in international cooperation and a global phenomenon-paradiplomacy. Since 1994, in South Africa, metropolitan municipalities have increasingly engaged in paradiplomatic activities. The cooperative relationships, managed by municipal International Relations (IR) practitioners, are initiated primari...

Zimbabwe’s restricted communicative space has spawned a diversity of alternative public spheres that allow citizens to participate in the broader debate on the country’s protracted crisis. Citizens are creatively using social media to express their needs and aspirations and resist and challenge different forms of domination. Using audience receptio...

From under-reportage or non-reportage, suicide stories have become increasingly prominent in Nigerian newspapers. Through a Critical Discourse Analysis of news stories published between January and July of 2019 in two leading papers in Nigeria - The Punch and Daily Trust Newspapers (two of the nation's most widely circulated newspapers), the resear...

This study's initial focus was on exploring the potential impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) on future elections in Africa. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is fundamentally changing the way we live, work and relate to one another. In its scale and complexity, 4IR could change humanity and human existence as we presently know it. The...

Many low and middle-income countries have either implemented or considered conditional or unconditional cash transfers to poor households as a means of alleviating poverty. Evidence from pilot schemes in many developed and developing economies, including those in Africa, suggests that cash transfers do not only alleviate poverty; they also promote...

We invite peace educators, researchers and practitioners to contribute to this project with real-life field reports or experiences of peacebuilding initiatives in Nigeria. We hope that findings from the case studies in this volume will serve as valuable information for peacebuilders and peace scholars in the field, as well as for decision-makers.

Since the transition to multi-party democracy, political parties have been legally entitled to both public and private sources of funding. While public funding has been regulated since 1996 through the Public Funding of Represented Political Parties Act 103 of 1997 (PFRPPA), private funding of political parties has had a controversial history. Priv...

Upon assuming office in 2007, Nigeria’s former President Umaru Yar’adua initiated an amnesty programme for ‘repentant’ militants in the Niger Delta Region to provide them with stipends and training opportunities, as well as reduce the rate and spate of vandalism of oil installations and kidnappings of oil workers. The amnesty also sought to pacify...

Arguably, no issue evokes so much emotion amongst South Africans, post-1994, like the land and agrarian question. After going through various stages of 'failed' implementations of the land reform programme, the government decided to consider the path of land expropriation, with a Bill to that effect already passing the motion in Parliament. The Bil...

In 2008, Kenya hovered on the brink of a war arising from the political violence that followed the general elections. In reportage akin to that of the infamous Rwandan genocide of 1994, the Kenyan media pitched the country's different ethnoreligious groups against each other. The result was a wanton loss of lives and property, as well as a highly v...

When Uber Cab services started in 2009 as a 'tap-a-button-get a ride' idea of moving from one point to the other easily, little did the founders know it would grow into one of the biggest start-ups in the world in such a short time. Uber has revolutionised the cab industry by introducing an app that gets people rides from 'simple taps'. Although th...

The onset of democracy in South Africa provided South Africans with the opportunity to build a truly democratic, non-racial, non-sexist society in which there would be opportunity for all to make material, social and intellectual progress. This vision was enshrined in a Constitution intent on deepening democracy by treating people with dignity and...

The ability to be divided along ethnic and religious lines is inherent to much of Africa’s media. Such potentially divisive reporting has the ability to incite violence through prejudiced information, particularly during election processes. Reporting African Elections examines the impact of media messages on society, focusing on these electoral pr...

By the late 1950s and early 1960s most African colonies had attained independence from British and French rule, resulting in great optimism regarding the future of the nascent democracies on the continent. A buoyant populace transformed their memories of harsh political struggles into images of heroism and confirmed the victory of the national move...

African elections are unique in several respects; in ethnoreligiously divided nations, elections are often decided on the basis of candidates’ ethnic or religious affiliations rather than political ideologies. In Nigeria for example, campaigns differ greatly from what is obtainable in other countries. For example, music plays a huge role in the out...

Nigeria, a very fragile country, is constantly teetering towards dissolution. For several decades post-independence, the country has been plagued by protracted disputations among the diverse ethnic nationalities, which have been attributed to the inadvertent merger of the Northern and Southern protectorates in 1914 by the British colonialists. Sinc...

During the run-up to the 2015 general elections in nigeria, there was widespread trepidation within and outside the nation that the increasing cases of electoral violence and political intimidation ravaging the country would snowball into full-blown violence, and possibly plunge it into civil war. this fear was largely instigated by the 2011 electi...

Given that most Africans view political aspirants in terms of their ethnic and religious lineage rather than political ideology, and since most Africans rely on the media for information, there is a tendency to fall prey to biased and insensitive reportage, capable of inciting violence elicited by the prejudiced information often presented as news,...