BOOK TITLE: New Hidden Narratives of African Migration: Exploring Media and the Contestation of Place REVIEWER: Joan Tirwyn Hassan, Ph.D, Associate Professor and Deputy Dean, Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, Kaduna State University (KASU), Kaduna, and Visiting Faculty, Department of Mass Communication, Baze University, Abuja. REVIEW DATE: 4th March 2026. In an era in which African migration is too often reduced to spectacle, boats at sea, borders breached, and statistics weaponised, New Hidden Narratives of African Migration: Exploring Media and the Contestation of Place offers a bold, intellectually rigorous, and deeply humane intervention. Abiodun Adeniyi has written a work that refuses the simplifications of headline journalism and instead, excavates the layered emotional,...