ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that Africa has a lot of peace and security challenges as well as opportunities visible in new borderland spaces to afford negative reporting about the continent. Quite often, these opportunities are hardly reported by the media. Media reports tend to focus on negativity due to the absence of pan-Africa journalistic ideologies that would guide news values. Using the Regional Economic Community’s (REC) lenses and the borderland as a theoretical and methodological object in an attempt to argue for African peace journalism as opposed to peace journalism in Africa, the chapter appraises new pan-African journalistic news values in the context of peace and security in Africa anchored on Utu (humanity), Umoja (Unity) and Harambee (collective responsibility) to conclude on the possibilities of the realization of the next generation of peacebuilding in Africa.
