Media Mining Memory in Nigera

Media Mining Memory archives Nigerian newspapers, state reports, and community narratives about memory and history.

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About Media Mining Memory in Nigera

Media Mining Memory – Nigeria is a digital archive tracking how Nigerian newspapers, state reports, and community narratives have represented mining accidents, labour, environment, and extraction from 1935 to 2025. It is built from manually collected newspaper articles with structured metadata, NLTK text analysis, and cartographic work centred on Eastern Nigeria.

The site provides an interactive map linking articles to localities and mine sites, timelines and topic visualisations by decade and theme, methods notes on text analysis, classroom activities, and an Enugu-focused exhibit. It is part of a larger research project on abandoned mines, environmental memory, and community contestation in Eastern Nigeria.

Key features

  • Interactive map linking articles to localities and mine sites
  • Interactive timeline filtered by theme, location, and newspaper
  • Decade by theme heatmap showing coverage patterns
  • Topic cluster gallery for accidents, labour, and pollution
  • NLTK walkthrough covering tokenisation, TF-IDF, and topic modelling
  • Enugu-focused exhibit with maps, photographs, and media fragments
Best for: Researchers, students, and community groups studying Nigerian mining history and media representation.
Good for
  • Print media corpus spans 1935 to 2025 with structured metadata
  • Links national headlines to Enugu-based exhibits and local memory
  • Documents methods, coding, and theme design for text analysis

Media Mining Memory in Nigera at a glance

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Platforms
Web
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Language
English
Last checked
Oct 5, 2026 · Online when checked
Listed
Oct 5, 2026

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Media Mining Memory in Nigera FAQ

What time period does the archive cover?
1935 to 2025, covering newspaper representation of mining accidents, labour, environment, and extraction.
How was the newspaper corpus prepared?
Articles were manually collected, cleaned, categorised, and described with structured metadata.
What does the (Un)Known Memories exhibit contain?
An Enugu-focused exhibit that combines maps, photographs, plans, and media fragments.
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