Performing the News: Yorùbá Oral Traditions on the Radio.
The Yorùbá language radio programme Kókó Inú Ìwé Ìròyìn, which translates as "Newspaper Headlines News", began airing in 1999 and starts broadcasting at 6 am daily on the Lagos local languages radio network Bond FM 92.9. I argue that the news presenters do not use the usual radio journalism conventi...
| Publicado en: | Journal of African Cultural Studies Vol. 35; no. 4; pp. 422 - 437 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2023
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