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Guerillas In Cyberia: The Transnational Alternative Online Journalism Of The Nigerian Diasporic Public Sphere, Farooq A. Kperogi Ph.D.

Farooq A. Kperogi

The last two decades witnessed the phenomenal migratory flows of Africans, especially Nigerians, to the West, including the United States, at a proportion outpaced only by the Transatlantic Slave Trade. While the political and economic consequences of the migration flows of Nigerians to the United States have been captured fairly robustly in the scholarly literature on globalization, there is scant attention to the transnational online journalistic practices of Nigerians in the diaspora and what impacts these practices have had and continue to have on not just the form and content of journalistic practices in Nigeria but also on the national …