Tag: by Akin Olaniyan

Aproko Doctor And The Genetically Modified Gospel Of Convenience, By Akin Olaniyan

Abibat Babalola

There is no way we can know everything but at least when it comes to social media, we know that the most harmful lies are disguised in slick but poisonous bottles of certainty – pushed by smiling charlatans pretending to be specialists. You see them mostly in dumbed-down videos with every inconvenient nuance edited out, just for one purpose – hitting maximum engagement. Take a bow, Aproko Doctor (Egemba Chinonso Fidelis), the country’s ‘sweet-talking’ medical micro-influencer, whose social media videos on TikTok and YouTube offer controversial advice in dangerously-funny ways…

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Acts Of Journalism Don’t Necessarily Make One A Journalist, by Akin Olaniyan

ADEOLA YUSUF

Even the uninitiated acknowledges that journalism has changed permanently. That journalism has been in a state of flux because of the digitalization of media is not in doubt since we all encounter the effects of the changes in our everyday lives. However, there is good reason to believe that such street-level understanding is missing when it comes to what the changes mean for everyday media consumption. Most of the confusion, it appears, concern the question of what qualifies to be described as journalism and who earns the right to be…

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