Abstract
The Sahel famines form an instance of slow disaster. This raises problems, not only for their "newsworthiness," but also for the form of their coverage. If drought is defined as a climatic constant, the logic of the fatalist drought-famine paradigm will dominate spot coverage of the situation. If drought is posed as a social problem resulting from socioeconomic and political structures, a systemic paradigm would be invoked in explanations. The coverage of two recent famines in the Sahel are discursively analysed throught this problematic.
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