The human and professional trauma that insecurity, insurgency, terrorism and forced displacement have on the lives and work of journalists in Nigeria, for instance, and across the African regional space, is quite regularly overlooked.

The connection that journalists have with the environment, the communities and occurrences they cover are intricate and cannot be dismissed.

It is widely acknowledged that in Nigeria, and across Africa, insecurity has become overwhelming, intense and indeed an existential problem.

However the awareness, that journalists are steadily counting among the victims, is much less on the surface.