The Role of Community Radio Station in Rural Development in Nigeria
Keywords:
role, community radio, radio, democracy, developmentAbstract
Community radio stations are uniquely placed to make a difference to society. This paper addresses the role of community radio on rural development in Nigeria by applying library based research method, necessary information were generated through literature review. Drawn from Democratic Participant Theory. This paper highlights that community radio has brought positive impacts particularly in eight thematic areas (i.e. Education, politics suitability, agricultural transformation, promoting participatory democracy, voice of voiceless, information/ discussion forum on local issues, empowering unprivileged rural people and contribution on good governance). Thus, better to offer radio programs by the local level authorities in such thematic areas for strengthening the rural development process in general and the rural community development process in particular.
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