Abstract
The “African common position” during the Special Session of United Nations (UN) General Assembly on children was that “Today’s investment in children is tomorrow’s peace, stability, security, democracy and sustainable development.” However, the African child remains the most neglected species in the continent as millions of them are still living in poverty, deprived of education, suffer from malnourishment and discrimination, abandoned and vulnerable to abuses including being used as child soldiers in warfare. This situation demands a revisitation of the world union’s call to care for the interest of the child as specified in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. In this regard, the media is fingered as having a role to play in ensuring the realization of children’s many unfulfilled dreams, a responsibility that requires greater capacity. Unfortunately, the current African media capacity for children is very low, a situation traceable to lack of skills and inadequate knowledge base. It is in this ...
Highlights
The plight of children has been of global concern in recent times
To accomplish this tasks spelt out in United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), the Oslo challenge and other documents, this article argues for specialism in journalism and media education that focuses on children and children alone
This is what we named as Children Journalism and Media Studies (CJMS) or Children Journalism and Media Education (CJME), and can be put as Children Media Studies (CMS) and these nomenclatures can be used interchangeably
Summary
The plight of children has been of global concern in recent times. children all over the world are threatened, African children are in more precarious situation. To accomplish this tasks spelt out in United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), the Oslo challenge and other documents, this article argues for specialism in journalism and media education that focuses on children and children alone.
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