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Tweeting to Vindicate the “Marginalised Nigerian Diaspora” in China: A Content Analysis of Nigeria MFAs' Online Communications
Abstract
In a bid to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic in its territory, the Chinese government embarked on a number of muscular policies right from the early stages of the pandemic. One of such policies was aimed at forcing Africans living in the Guangdong province to accept COVID-19 prevention and containment measures. Subsequently viewed as xenophobic, this policy rapidly degenerated into a diplomatic incident, opposing Chinese and African governments. Through its officials and its diplomats, the Nigerian government in particular condemned the Chinese policies using Twitter among other digital platforms. This chapter seeks to show how Nigerian diplomats deployed Twitter to critique China's perceived xenophobic treatment of Nigerian diasporas in its territory during the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. The chapter is based on a quantitative and qualitative content analysis of 12 randomly selected tweets generated by senior staffers at Nigeria's Ministry of Foreign Affairs to denounce the maltreatment of the Nigerian Diaspora in China.
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