African countries have, over the years, suffered from colonialism and neo-colonial tendencies in different spheres of life including the educational sector. This paper, which is anchored on cultural imperialism media theory, adopted a secondary material data collection approach in interrogating the colonial attributes of Nigeria's journalism educational system in the area of curricular, publication and cultural richness of the system. Findings revealed that the country's journalism curriculum is patterned after the western orientations and that the journalism teachers' publications activities are nuanced with neo colonial tendencies while little of our cultural values are integrated in our journalism educational system. The paper recommends the way out of the abysmal quagmire and insist on a holistic re-engineering the nation's journalism educational system through patriotic home grown educational policies and implementation by the appropriate stakeholders.
Vol. 1, No 1, pp. 1-7.