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Framing of COVID-19 News in Font-Page Headlines of Standard (Hardcore) Swahili Newspapers in Tanzania Cover

Framing of COVID-19 News in Font-Page Headlines of Standard (Hardcore) Swahili Newspapers in Tanzania

By: Amani Lusekelo  
Open Access
|Apr 2023

Abstract

COVID-19 pandemic rampaged the health of the world population for a very short period, from December 2019 to-date. Since the pandemic attacked each nation, in this article I discuss the representation of COVID-19 information in the headlines of front pages in “Habarileo”, “Mwananchi” and “Uhuru” newspapers circulated in Tanzania. Much of the information entrench transmission and prevention, as most of the verbs and nouns frame them. The contents of the headlines reinforce the political matters surrounding the disease, health and medication for the pandemic and economic turmoil emerging due to COVID-19 in Tanzania. The conclusion is that the pandemic had been entrenched in the Swahili society of Tanzania in that utility of Swahili terms have become part of the culture of the nation.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/eas-2022-0005 | Journal eISSN: 1339-7877 | Journal ISSN: 1339-7834
Language: English
Page range: 84 - 113
Published on: Apr 15, 2023
Published by: University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

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