International Relations
Lecturer I
Political Science
At the Political Science department office
Appointment on Visitation important
Topic: International Relations, Development Studies, Comparative Politics, Migration And Conflict
Description: My overarching research interest encapsulates the development question as it relates to Africa in general and Nigeria in particular. This has made China in Africa, the youth question, violent conflict, intra-Africa migration, the Fourth Estate, state and nation-building and all their actual and potential implications a common theme in my work. However, I am very open to researching older and emerging issues in Political Science as well as multidisciplinary and trans-disciplinary collaborations.
# | Certificate | School | Year |
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1. | Ph.D (Social Sciences) | KU Leuven | 2019 |
News media and Nigerians in Ghana: Exploring the Prospects and Challenges of Peace Journalism
News media have been linked to the deportation of Nigerians from Ghana in 1969 and Ghanaians from Nigeria in 1983. In more recent times, the media has also been identified to be playing a similar role in recent periodic tensions between Nigeria(ns) and Ghana(ians), leading a former President of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) to warn in 2019 that the tenuous history between the two countries could be repeated. Yet, little or no academic study shed light on the nature of media coverage of Nigerian or Ghanaian migrants in the two countries. Hinged on Anthony Giddens’ Structuration Theory, the proposed research aims to achieve two broad goals: (a) to concretely –and comparatively– document how newspapers framed migrants before, during, and after (i.e. BDA) the deportation in Ghana and Nigeria; and (b) to understand how uncovering the role of the media in the deportations can help journalists mitigate the tensions between Nigerians and their hosts in contemporary Ghana. To achieve both goals, a qualitative method that combines archival research, digital humanities (based on analysing newspapers websites), in-depth interviews and focus group discussions will be adopted.
OSHODI ABDUL-GAFAR is a Lecturer I at the Department of Political Science
OSHODI has a Ph.D in Social Sciences from KU Leuven