Abstract

Discourses in Nigeria are fixated on core cultural ideologies through a multidimensional interface. The present study tests this interface by mapping out ideologies in crisis-driven political discourse centred on the herdsmen crisis. The paper argues that certain ideologies are characteristic of Nigerian political discourse and form the meaningful units of a wide range of its discourses. Drawing on 757 news headlines reporting the herdsmen crisis, the study further attests that crisis discourse in Nigeria is often patterned around certain prevalent ideologies, that is, religious divide, ethnicity, nationhood, power abuse, and citizen distrust, which can further be mapped onto the socio-political landscape of the country. The paper argues that since crisis-driven discourse in Nigeria is a construct of its building block ideologies, such discourse is best deconstructed from such underlying ideological architecture.

摘要

尼日利亚的话语通过多维界面关注核心文化意识形态。本研究通过绘制以牧民危机为中心的危机驱动的政治话语中的意识形态来测试这一界面。本文认为，某些意识形态是尼日利亚政治话语的特征，并构成其广泛话语的有意义的单位。该研究借鉴757条报道牧民危机的新闻头条，进一步证明尼日利亚的危机话语往往围绕某些流行的意识形态展开，即宗教分歧、种族、民族、权力滥用和公民不信任，这些可以进一步映射到该国的社会政治格局。该论文认为，由于尼日利亚的危机驱动话语是其意识形态的构建，