The activities of Fulani nomads in Ghana have gained considerable media attention and engendered continuing public debate. In this paper, we analyze the prejudiced portrayals of the nomads in the Ghanaian news media, and how these contribute to an exclusionist and a discriminatory discourse that puts the nomads at the margins of Ghanaian society. The study employs a critical discourse analysis framework and draws on a dataset of 160 articles, including news stories, editorials and op-ed pieces. The analysis reveals that the nomads are discursively constructed as undesirables through an othering process that centers on three discourses: a discourse of dangerousness/criminalization, a discourse of alienization, and a discourse of stigmatization. This anti-nomad/Fulani rhetoric is evident in the choice of sensational headlines, alarmist news content, organization of arguments, and use of quotations. The paper concludes with a call for more balanced and critical news reporting on the nomads, especially since issues surrounding them border on national cohesion and security.

富拉尼游牧民族在加纳的活动引起了媒体的广泛关注，并引发了持续的公众辩论。在本文中，我们分析了加纳新闻媒体中游牧民族的偏见刻画，以及这些因素如何导致排斥游牧民族和歧视性言论，使游牧民族处于加纳社会边缘。这项研究采用了关键的话语分析框架，并利用了包括新闻报道，社论和评论文章在内的160篇文章的数据集。分析表明，游牧民族通过以三个话语为中心的其他过程将游牧者话语建构为不受欢迎的话语：危险/犯罪化话语，异化话语和污名化话语。这种反游牧民族/富拉尼人的言论在耸人听闻的标题，危急新闻内容，参数的组织和引号的使用。本文最后呼吁对游牧民族进行更加平衡和重要的新闻报道，特别是因为围绕游牧民族的问题与国家凝聚力和安全息息相关。