Secko, DavidEdimo, Anne2018-02-142018-02-142016-05http://hdl.handle.net/10625/56850This thesis examines the lived experiences of African journalists involved in the recent Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak. It contends that African journalists did not cover the crisis efficiently because of several barriers. The EVD epidemic is believed to have begun in December 2013 and has affected West African countries such as Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, causing an estimated 11,279 deaths since March 2015. The outbreak, however, was not just a health crisis. It was a crisis of information that highlighted the ineffectiveness of top down messaging to reach communities directly affected by the outbreak.application/pdfenEBOLAEBOLA OUTBREAKLOCAL JOURNALISMCRISIS JOURNALISMSCIENCE JOURNALISMINFORMATION CRISISWEST AFRICAThesis