Research Publications (Arts and Design)
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Item Putting forward sustainability as a model for journalism education and training(Informa UK Limited, 2024-01-01) Booker, Nancy; Mutsvairo, Bruce; Baliah, Dinesh; Adjin-Tettey, Theodora Dame; Holt, Kristoffer; Tallert, Lars; Mujati, JeanAfrican journalism practice presents unique opportunities and challenges that require journalists to be equipped with the necessary skills, knowledge, and values to engage in sustainable journalism. Training institutions play a critical role in ensuring that journalists are not only professionally-ready to execute their mandate but also that they can safeguard and promote ethical values in their everyday work. Some of these values include “truth telling, independence, objectivity, fairness, inclusivity and social justice” (Gade, Nduka, and Dastger 2017, 10). Africa, like other regions of the Global South, has several journalism training institutions that provide an opportunity to challenge “hegemonic epistemologies and ontologies of Western-centric journalism studies” (Mutsvairo et al. 2021, 993). In the context of this submission, the present study investigates the current state of sustainable journalism in Africa. We examined data based on a syllabi analysis of journalism programs in Kenya, South Africa and Ghana to appraise what role sustainable journalism education and training could play in Africa. Findings show that efforts are already in place across select learning and training institutions but also point to profound gaps in the curriculum, pedagogy and resources needed to prepare journalists for sustainable journalism.Item Countering the threats of dis/misinformation : fact-checking practices of students of two universities in West Africa(Bastas Publications, 2024-01-18) Adjin-Tettey, Theodora Dame; Amenaghawon, FrancisAlthough access is uneven, studies have shown a high uptake of digital technologies and platforms across Africa, with many accessing social media, which is a fertile ground for the spread of fake news and disinformation, calling for the need to factcheck information before consumption or sharing. The study was grounded in explore, engage, and empower (EEE) model of media and information literacy (MIL), which states that MIL competencies empower media and information users to identify, access, and retrieve information and media content skillfully (explore), analyze, and evaluate media and information critically (engage) and create, share, or use information and media ethically, safely, and responsibly (empower). The purpose was to assess fact-checking practices of students in two universities in Ghana and Nigeria to ascertain the extent to which they factcheck information, their levels of knowledge of fact checkers and the fact checkers that they use. The simple random sampling was used to draw a total of 316 respondents. It was found that although many respondents confirmed the authenticity of news and information received before acting on them, they mostly did so through social media and their networks. Few respondents knew about fact-checking platforms and could state names of actual factcheckers. The study makes a case for MIL, which includes fact checking, to enable media users to analyze and evaluate news and information critically to ensure the consequent ethical safe and responsible sharing and usage of information and media content, as EEE model proposes.Item A critical appraisal of the role of retribution in Aníkúlápó : the movie(Universitas Djuanda, 2023-12) Adedokun, Theophilus Adedayo; Olanrewaju, Abolaji ChristianahThis study examines Aníkúlápó, a Yoruba historical movie, to elucidate cultural perspectives on retributive justice. The study is grounded in the Yoruba worldview, which frames retribution as essential for restoring cosmic and social equilibrium when moral norms are violated. The data analysis used textual analysis of Aníkúlápó’s narrative depictions of crime and punishment as insights into traditional Yoruba principles of retributive justice. The findings reveal that the movie accurately portrays customary public punishment processes in precolonial Yoruba society aimed at communal justice and harmony. Beliefs in supernatural forces dispensing divine retribution are also authentically represented. While punishments seek to deter crime and rehabilitate offenders, scholarly critiques note occasional unfairness and excess. Overall, the analysis of the movie illuminates the pivotal role of retribution in Yoruba's cultural identity and moral philosophy. The key themes in the study relate to retribution's links to cosmic balance, supernatural dimensions, and functions as deterrence and rehabilitation. By situating the analysis of Aníkúlápó within scholarship on African jurisprudence, the study elucidates Yoruba perspectives on fate, choice, proportionality, and pragmatism when responding to moral complexities and wrongdoing. This study contributes original humanistic insight into indigenous African philosophies of social harmony beyond punitive justice. This study recommends comparing diverse narratives and contemporary attitudes to enrich the understanding retribution's nuanced cultural significance.Item Contemplating art workshops as a vehicle for border crossing and creative tourism(2022-05-31) Adewumi, Kehinde Christopher; Oparinde, Kunle MusbaudeenThis paper explores the history of artistic migrations, focusing specifically on art workshops and their capacity to facilitate African artists’ cross-border tourism. Drawing from constructivist approaches to border studies and a historical approach to qualitative enquiry, this paper identifies three pivotal events in history that led to the establishment and use of art workshops as tools to facilitate migration and cross-cultural engagements amongst artists. Colonisation in Africa is one of such events. The second is the creation of the Triangle Network of workshops in New York in 1982 by Sir Anthony Caro and Robert Loder. The third is the Grenzganger (Border Crossing) Initiative which came after the fall of the iron curtain in 1991. The paper argues that in addition to art workshops being a space for creative stimulation, art workshops can also facilitate legal cross-border tourism, migration and the exchange of ideas between artists through cross-cultural and transnational engagements. The paper established that as artists cross borders, their creative skills and cultural histories also relocate and intermingle with the cultures and histories of other artists and artistic productions across the world. This implies that art and artists serve as vehicles for the transference and cross-fertilisation of experiences, histories, creativities, ideas, and skills across borders.Item Developing an index on male partner involvement for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Zimbabwe(2021-12) Chibango, Vimbai; Potgieter, CherylMeasuring male partner involvement (MPI) for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV remains a challenge as there is no universal instrument to measure this concept. The study underpinned by the Gender and Development theory (GAD), utilised a mixed method design aimed at developing the first index for measuring MPI in PMTCT in Zimbabwe. Eight focus group discussions with men and women from diverse community groups were conducted. In addition, seven key informant interviews were conducted with managers from institutions providing PMTCT services. A ten-item tool was administered to a separate 331 respondents. Using factor analysis, seven items were extracted from a list of ten binary questions which described various activities linked to MPI in PMTCT programmes. The index, which is seen as a work in progress has strength in its inclusion of items that addressed antenatal and postnatal activities, which are crucial for the prevention of paediatric HIV.