This is a book about terrorism in sub-Saharan Africa. It examines how emerging and established terrorist organizations leverage digital media to advance their agenda on the continent and globally. It looks into their online communication, recruiting messaging, and collaborative tactics. This book provides lots of practical, implementable insights, strategies, and solutions for governments, policymakers, agencies, experts, institutions, students, and the general public. It is co-authored by renowned experts in the field.

The Handbook of Social and Political Conflict offers a comprehensive exploration of conflict from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, merging insights from fields including sociology, political science, psychology, communication, and conflict resolution. Bringing together original work by experts from around the world, this authoritative volume provides readers with a deep understanding of the mechanisms, causes, and consequences of conflict.

This study analyzed how African, American, and British online mainstream news sources visually represent Boko Haram survivors. Drawing from agenda-setting and cultural dimensions frameworks, the study identified major differences in survivors’ gender, emotional expressions, and personally identifiable information across all three online news platforms.

Several existing studies have examined the feminist rhetorical strategies Michelle Obama used in her public addresses; however, there are no current studies that examine the rhetorical strategies she employed while communicating about the 2014 terrorist abduction of the Nigerian Chibok schoolgirls by Boko Haram.