- Title
- The rising popularity of Pidgin English radio stations in Nigeria: an audience study of Wazobia FM, Lagos
- Creator
- Durodola, Olufunke Treasure Anike
- ThesisAdvisor
- Strelitz, Larry
- ThesisAdvisor
- Marquis, Danika
- Subject
- Wazobia FM (Nigeria)
- Subject
- Radio audiences -- Nigeria -- Lagos
- Subject
- Pidgin English -- Nigeria -- Lagos
- Subject
- Radio stations -- Nigeria -- Lagos
- Subject
- Mass media and culture -- Nigeria -- Lagos
- Subject
- Language and languages -- Variation
- Subject
- Popular culture -- Nigeria
- Subject
- Postcolonialism -- Nigeria
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- vital:3550
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1020886
- Description
- This research is located within media studies and draws on the Cultural Studies approach. It is an audience study, which uses the mixed methods of focus group discussions and an online survey to examine the importance of the use of Nigerian Pidgin as a broadcast language in investigating the rising popularity of Pidgin English radio in a multi-ethnic and multi-lingual Nigeria. The study focuses on Wazobia FM, a radio station in Lagos, and the first pidgin station in Nigeria. It seeks to determine whether the station’s audience engaged with the station’s programming based on its prioritisation of NigP and the linguistic identity it offers them. The study foregrounds the marginalised status of NigP within the politics of language in Nigeria. It traces the language’s evolution through popular and oppositional expressions in broadcasting and in music. It also seeks to establish the place of Pidgin English within the role that language plays in the formation of the Nigerian identity. This study thus adopts the ‘emic’ perspective, which underpins qualitative methodology, and views social life in terms of processes as opposed to static terms. The theoretical framework of this research revolves around culture, language and identity. Pertinent concepts in post-colonial studies, together with conceptual frameworks in Cultural Studies, such as popular culture, representation, hegemony and counter-culture have been used to make sense of the popularity of NigP radio stations.
- Format
- 126 leaves, pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, Journalism and Media Studies
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Durodola, Olufunke Treasure Anike
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