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MAC 121 History of Nigerian Mass Media

100 levelCommunication & Media8 topics

MAC 121 covers 8 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Development of the Nigerian press from 1859 to the present
  2. The early newspaper press and Iwe Irohin
  3. The nationalist press and political development
  4. Development of broadcasting in Nigeria
  5. Colonial to contemporary media trends
  6. Media contributions to religious development
  7. Economic and social impacts of the mass media
  8. History of press regulation in Nigeria

A sample from this course

One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Development of the Nigerian press from 1859 to the present

This topic traces how the Nigerian press developed from the founding of Iwe Irohin in 1859 through colonial rule, nationalist agitation, independence, military rule, and the contemporary democratic and digital era. For examination purposes, you must master the major phases, key newspapers and actors, and how politics, technology, ownership, and press freedom shaped the role of the press in Nigerian society.

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