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Media Framing of Herdsmen-Farmers Conflict in Nigeria

There have been series of farmer-herdsmen clashes in various parts of Nigeria which have claimed several lives, displaced indigenes and destroyed crops on farmlands. Consequently, the media have been reporting these clashes. This study sought to investigate how the media framed the clashes between farmers and herders in Nigeria. Using framing theory, the study examined the story genres and the dominant frames employed by the four selected newspapers (Guardian, Daily Sun, Vanguard, The Nation) between November 2017 and April 2018. The newspapers were purposively selected and content analysed. T…