Digitally De-decolonizing the Nigerian Journalism Space

This paper examines the concatenations between the colonization of the Americas when the punishment of publishers and printers preceded protections provided by a United States constitution during an inchoate colonized superpower and the concept of decoloniality in the country of Nigeria in regard to the treatment of its journalists. As new Americans moved toward a status of decoloniality, they were threatened by British establishmentarians that fully expected colonizers, ergo products of British culture, to accept conventional ideology in the new colonies. Going against the monarchical values and traditions was to come at a cost to the violator. Fast forward to today, when the fascistic repression of the British monarchy over the Americas could be compared to journalists in Nigeria who may attempt to publish reports that run counter to government narratives despite being a global contributor to culture and progression for the African continent. Consequently, one area that Nigeria needs to more fully embrace in the frame of decolonization is in the treatment of its reporters who wish to express journalistic freedoms concomitant with constitutional protections.