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  • 3 - “Herdsmen Are Terrorists”

  • from Part I - Conflict Discourse in Newspaper Reporting
  • Edited by Innocent Chiluwa
  • Book:
    Discourse, Media, and Conflict
    Published online:
    21 April 2022
    Print publication:
    28 April 2022, pp 69-92

  • Summary

    This chapter argues that the discursive construction of the herders as terrorists exacerbates suspicion and fear in herder–farmer relations and further destroys the prospect of peace in Nigeria. Applying a corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis to analyze the representations of the main actors in the conflict, 175 news headlines of seven popular Nigerian broadsheet newspapers were studied. The study reveals that the herdsmen are consistently constructed as terrorists, as violent actions such as unprovoked attacks and killings are attributed to them. However, the farmers are constructed as non-violent and as the victims. Hence, the press explicitly constructs the herder–farmer conflict in terms of the “killer-herdsmen” script with which the herders are generally evaluated.