“Covid Cure (1)”: Anas’s Investigative Journalism and the Ethics of Uncovering Fakes in African Spaces

IF 0.9 2区社会学 Q2 CULTURAL STUDIES

Journal of African Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI:10.1080/13696815.2021.1940887

C. Atuire, Grace Addison, S. Owusu, P. Kingori

引用次数: 1

Abstract

ABSTRACT Investigative journalists sometimes resort to the use of fake identities in order to reveal fakes and malpractice, a phenomenon that can be described as revelatory fakery. Acclaimed investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw, in collaboration with BBC Africa Eye, employs revelatory fakery to expose and prosecute wrongdoers in Ghana. From an ethical viewpoint, Anas’s revelatory fakery, a second order fakery, becomes a seedbed for an exponential level of fakery. This article poses the question whether Anas’s work is journalism or instead yet another expression of fakery that allows a prosecutor to act as a journalist. This question is contextualised within the ethics of the broader narratives created by the BBC Africa Eye investigations, which feed and promote a spectacular but “fake” narrative about Africa as a place of negatives, difference, and darkness.

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“Covid - Cure(1)”:Anas的调查新闻和揭露非洲空间假货的伦理

摘要调查记者有时会使用假身份来揭露造假和渎职行为，这种现象可以被描述为启示性造假。著名调查记者Anas Aremeyaw与英国广播公司非洲之眼合作，利用揭露性造假来揭露和起诉加纳的不法分子。从伦理角度来看，阿纳斯的启示性造假，一种二阶造假，成为指数级造假的温床。这篇文章提出了一个问题，阿纳斯的作品是新闻作品，还是另一种允许检察官充当记者的造假行为。这个问题是在英国广播公司“非洲之眼”调查所创造的更广泛叙事的伦理背景下提出的，这些调查助长并推动了一种壮观但“虚假”的叙事，将非洲视为一个充满负面、差异和黑暗的地方。

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Journal of African Cultural Studies Multiple-

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1.70

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10.00%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of African Cultural Studies publishes leading scholarship on African culture from inside and outside Africa, with a special commitment to Africa-based authors and to African languages. Our editorial policy encourages an interdisciplinary approach, involving humanities, including environmental humanities. The journal focuses on dimensions of African culture, performance arts, visual arts, music, cinema, the role of the media, the relationship between culture and power, as well as issues within such fields as popular culture in Africa, sociolinguistic topics of cultural interest, and culture and gender. We welcome in particular articles that show evidence of understanding life on the ground, and that demonstrate local knowledge and linguistic competence. We do not publish articles that offer mostly textual analyses of cultural products like novels and films, nor articles that are mostly historical or those based primarily on secondary (such as digital and library) sources. The journal has evolved from the journal African Languages and Cultures, founded in 1988 in the Department of the Languages and Cultures of Africa at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. From 2019, it is published in association with the International African Institute, London. Journal of African Cultural Studies publishes original research articles. The journal also publishes an occasional Contemporary Conversations section, in which authors respond to current issues. The section has included reviews, interviews and invited response or position papers. We welcome proposals for future Contemporary Conversations themes.