Language, Terrorism and Media: A Study of the Representation of Boko Haram in Cameroonian and Nigerian Newspapers Between 2014 and 2015

The 19th century was marked in Cameroon and Nigeria by colonisation. These two countries were under the domination of German, French and British. The British-controlled southern part of Cameroon which she further divided her own portion into British Southern and Northern British Cameroons attached to East and North Nigeria respectively. After, Boko haram phenomenon came. A range of conflicting narratives have grown up around the phenomenon. As a real problem in the society, Boko Haram phenomenon has captured the attention of the media of the world. We are going to deal with Cameroonian written presses: The Guardian Post and Eden Newspaper and Nigerian online Newspapers: The Cable Alert and THISDAYLIVE especially with seventeen articles. The four newspapers are edited in Cameroonian press and in Nigerian internet sites. Each newspaper has its own way of talking about Boko Haram phenomenon and how the fight against it. This dissertation makes an analysis of language and discursive strategies used to talk about the Islamist sect in the selected newspapers between 2014 and 2015. We are going to solve the problem of this topic through the use of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) especially Multimodal discourse approach of Kress and Van Leeuwen.