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Published Since: 2018. JAFDIS is accredited by DHET (the South African regulator of Higher Education) and indexed by SCOPUS, IBSS, EBSCO, ProQuest, COPERNICUS, ERIH PLUS and Sabinet. It is ranked by SCImago.
Publication Frequency: Quarterly (Four times a year) ISSN: 2516-2705 E-ISSN: 2516-2713. SCImago Journal Ranking for 2024: Quartile: Q2; SJR: 0.163
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Journal of African Films and Diaspora Studies (JAFDIS) (Research on African Films, Diaspora Studies, Performance Arts and Communication Studies) Volume 8, Number 3, September 2025

We are pleased to present the September 2025 issue of the Journal of African Film & Diaspora Studies, featuring a diverse collection of scholarship that examines the interdisciplinary of media, culture, and society across the African continent and its diaspora. This issue brings together a number of compelling articles that explore various dimensions of African media landscape, from traditional journalism to digital platforms, and from Nollywood's cultural impact to community media sustainability. The contributions span multiple countries and contexts, offering rich perspectives on contemporary African media studies. The articles in this issue represent collaborative scholarship from institutions across Nigeria, South Africa, and India, reflecting the journal's commitment to fostering international dialogue on African media studies. Contributors include established scholars and emerging researchers from universities including Redeemer's University, Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Pan-A...

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Journal of African Films and Diaspora Studies (JAFDIS) (Research on African Films, Diaspora Studies, Performance Arts and Communication Studies) Volume 6, Number 2, June 2023

Today, the industry in media, communication and journalism has seen a big growth in the use of social media during wars like, Russian Ukraine war as well as the new war in Sudan. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shell-shocked the world. A particular threat of social media is that propaganda campaigns can reach online exposure at an unprecedented scale. It is a fact to consider how social media has been weaponized, both before and during the hostilities. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been described as the first full-blown “social media war” (Suciu, 2022). It also charts new territory in other ways because of the digital transformation: it is the first full-blown cyber war and the first hacker war featuring both state and non-state actors attacking the information infrastructures of the combatants (Conger and Satariano, 2022). While social media has become a means of shaping public perceptions of the war, in reality, it is not the most reliable source for news, especially dur...


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