Canadian broadcaster sets up radio to fight Boko Haram insurgency

A Canadian broadcaster, David Smith, has established a radio station focused at combating Boko Haram insurgency and its ideology.
The channel, Dandal Kura, will air on shortwave from Nigeria to discourage people from violence.
Dandal Kura, Kanuri words for meeting point, targets mainly the Kanuri and Hausa-speaking communities of Nigeria where Boko Haram has conducted a brutal insurgency since 2009.
Mr. Smith, a veteran crisis and conflict news reporter, distinguished himself by setting up radio stations in crisis areas to preach the gospel of peaceful coexistence in war-torn areas.
He cut his journalism teeth during the Apartheid in South Africa in 1985, and despite being of Canadian descent, worked for the ANC-owned radio station, Capital Radio, against the P.W. Botha-led National Party.
Mr. Smith describes Apartheid as “terrorism”.
He set up the first UN-supported conflict-zone radio in the Balkan region in the 90s during the war in Yugoslavia, and later established a similar project in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, CAR.
With the huge success recorded in educating the people to eschew violence in CAR, he set Radio Bar-Kulan (meaning a meeting place in the local language) in Somalia, and later established Radio Okapi in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
With terrorism ravaging the Lake Chad Basin – an area covering parts of Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroun – the broadcaster established Dandal Kura in Nigeria.
Speaking when he visited PREMIUM TIMES recently, the Media Advisor of Dandal Kura Radio, David Smith, said the station targets about 9 million people in the Lake Chad basin.
Mr. Smith, who once worked with the UN on media projects in conflict zones, said the major target audience of Dandal Kura Radio were states affected by the Boko Haram crisis.
He said although the station informs and entertain the people on routine issues, the thematic area of the its programming was largely on peace building.
He said Dandal Kura Radio broadcasts in Kanuri language in order to give people “sense of belonging and ownership”.
He said other areas of the station’s focus were Eastern Niger area of Diffa, the Northern Cameroon area of Marwa, Northern Chad, noting that the station had correspondents in these areas.
“We have network of correspondents in states affected by the Boko Haram activity, and also in neighbouring states,” he said.
“Interestingly, because I travel a lot to N’jamena where I am in talks with the Multi-National Joint Task Force and the Lake Chad Basin Commission, I come across a lot of Kanuri speaking people in N’jamena, there is a large Kanuri speaking IDPs in N’jamena.
“I didn’t know they existed until I started visiting the Lake Chad Commission, and all the Kanuri speaking people in N’jamena started to find me to tell me how much they appreciated Dandal Kura, and wanted to contribute in it.
“Interestingly, because we broadcast on shortwave, and shortwave covers a vast area, I can say even in South Africa, I can pick up Dandal Kura.
“We have a large following in South Sudan and other areas because of the Kanuri speaking people in the Juba area, as well as the Khartoum area. Because of the traditional and historical reasons, people travelling on overland route to Mecca find themselves settling in Khartoum.”
According to him, there are estimated 9 million Kanuri speakers in the Lake Chad basin, and that Dandal Kura Radio is the only radio station that mainly broadcasts in Kanuri.
He said the station was currently operating in Kano for security reasons, assuring that the station would soon move to Maiduguri, where he called the “the heart of the Kanuri speaking world”.
The station currently operates for six hours – from 6am to 8am on 7415KHz in the 41 metre band; 8am to 9am on 15480 KHz in the 19metre band; and 7 to 10pm on 11830 KHz in the 25 metre band.



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Here in Nigeria, similar Radio stations for Fulani with the same objective is Fulanization

soon to be turned to fulani station

guys today is my birthday ooo y'all show me some likes

Grazing Routes You condemned
Grazing Bill You condemned
Grazing Colony You condemned
Importing Grass You condemned
Fulani Radio You condemned

Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) is Nigeria's publicly funded radio broadcasting in Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba. What's the difference between Radio Nigeria broadcasting in Igbo and Radio Nigeria broadcasting in Fulani?

If a radio station to address and educate a set of people we all agree are becoming a threat to the stability of this country is insensitive to you people then you people have problems deep inside you.

And the Radio station has been a success according to research conducted by a foreign research organisation

"Hearing these real life stories, including stories of reconciliation, and nonviolent ways to resolve disputes, has had an impact. Smith says a recent survey in the region found that 90 percent of people surveyed knew what Dandal Kura was, and thought favorably of it.

“Perhaps even more importantly, people who listen to Dandal Kura tend to be less likely to believe that violence is a means to an end in northeastern Nigeria, than those who don't listen to Dandal Kura,” Smith says. “

That is good but that may be used as a means of propaganda and propagation of Islam and terrorism.

Fulani radio.....kanuri radio.....very soon, Tiv radio.....idoma radio....

In this 21st century , we are still promoting ethnicity, it is a pity. Buhari is really a curse to this nation

The problem with this types of ethnic radio is that, they also be used to propagate propaganda which may lead to loss of lives, just as BBC Hausa painted the Jan 15 coup as 'Igbo coup' in 1967, even when Hausa soldiers were part of the perpetrators.

See

See love for people in action... unlike the Arabs that can only gift weapons and more bloodshed for their fellow Muslims countries

Christians are indeed the light of the world

MorufuAtanda:
The problem with this types of ethnic radio is that, they also be used to propagate propaganda which may lead to loss of lives, just as BBC Hausa painted the Jan 15 coup as 'Igbo coup' in 1967, even when Hausa soldiers were part of the perpetrators.

Sharrrrrrrrrrrap it was 100% an igbo coup within an igbo coup.

Ibos were the killers

Ibos were a lot in the cabinet, how come they didnt kill any Ibo cabinet member?

Nigeria had 4 regions, 2 regions ruled by Ibos they didnt kill the premier, the 2 regions ruled by non Ibos they killed the premier

The non Ibo Prime Minister was killed, the Ibo president was spared

Kaduna nzeogwu killed ahmadu bello in his residence

Emmanuel ifeajuna molest tafa balewa before killing him

Nwaobosi killed akintola in his residence after shoot out.

This re the 3 major actors of 1966 coup and their actions justified the tag Igbo coup.

usmanniya:
Here in Nigeria, similar Radio stations for Fulani with the same objective is Fulanization

Set up with Niger delta oil money...
Then stations set up by others with their own sweat is shut down by the Fulani government...

usmanniya:
Grazing Routes You condemned
Grazing Bill You condemned
Grazing Colony You condemned
Importing Grass You condemned
Fulani Radio You condemned

Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) is Nigeria's publicly funded radio broadcasting in Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba. What's the difference between Radio Nigeria broadcasting in Igbo and Radio Nigeria broadcasting in Fulani?

If a radio station to address and educate a set of people we all agree are becoming a threat to the stability of this country is insensitive to you people then you people have problems deep inside you.

Sharap, you fulani irredentist. Your plans are dead on arrival. You said frcn are broadcasting in the other three languages, why not simply adding fulani language instead of acquiring a separate license for separate and special radio for fulani radio.

You spoke about cattle colony, grazing routes and bill. Why must they acquire land from South with government fiat for private businesses as cattle rearing when the north has the largest land mass and arable and green vegetation. You people's cups are getting filled already.

usmanniya:
Grazing Routes You condemned
Grazing Bill You condemned
Grazing Colony You condemned
Importing Grass You condemned
Fulani Radio You condemned

Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) is Nigeria's publicly funded radio broadcasting in Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba. What's the difference between Radio Nigeria broadcasting in Igbo and Radio Nigeria broadcasting in Fulani?

If a radio station to address and educate a set of people we all agree are becoming a threat to the stability of this country is insensitive to you people then you people have problems deep inside you.

Was rearing of herds government business?

Since they don't understand English, is necessary to reach out to them in their local dialect.

usmanniya:


Sharrrrrrrrrrrap it was 100% an igbo coup within an igbo coup.

Ibos were the killers

Ibos were a lot in the cabinet, how come they didnt kill any Ibo cabinet member?

Nigeria had 4 regions, 2 regions ruled by Ibos they didnt kill the premier, the 2 regions ruled by non Ibos they killed the premier

The non Ibo Prime Minister was killed, the Ibo president was spared

Kaduna nzeogwu killed ahmadu bello in his residence

Emmanuel ifeajuna molest tafa balewa before killing him

Nwaobosi killed akintola in his residence after shoot out.

This re the 3 major actors of 1966 coup and their actions justified the tag Igbo coup.

Officers, Ademoyega, Pam, banjo, Hassan katsina are also Ibo Abi?