Invisible Chains: How Censorship, Misinformation and Propaganda Shape Stockholm Syndrome in African States

Welcome back to the second episode of Season 9 of Declarations!

We are often informed to the terrorising, oppressive and distressing effects of Human Rights abuses across the continent of Africa.

However, what happens in the rare cases that citizens don't know they're being abused? By exploring the implicitly powerful weapon of censorship, misinformation and mass propaganda, we can observe how patriotic, anti-western narratives succeed in instilling hope and nationalistic pride, rather than terror, to these inhabitants. 

Farooq Adamu Kperogi is a Nigerian-American professor, author, media scholar, newspaper columnist, blogger and activist. Professor Kperogi's research broadly explores the intersection between communication in a global context and the singularities of the communicative practices of marginal groups within it. 

He is interested in the transnational, mass-mediated, online discourses of marginalised diasporas in the West, which he studies by examining the alternative and citizen online journalistic practices of previously disempowered Third World ethnoscapes whose voluntary geographic displacement to the Western core imbues them with the cultural and social capital to be vanguards for potentially transformative cross-border exchanges with their homelands. 

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