Glocalizing Charlie Hebdo: An Analysis of Coverage of the Paris Attacks in Kenya’s The Friday Bulletin (January 7th–February 28th, 2015)

Abstract

On the morning of January 7th, 2015, two brothers stormed into Charlie Hebdo’s offices in Paris, killing a section of its editorial team. It was reported that the duo had been offended by previous caricatures of Prophet Muhammad in the satirical magazine. An attack on a Jewish establishment within the city at about the same time was fast linked to the duo’s sympathizers. In the few hours that followed, an anxious French public sought to demonstrate its solidarity with the magazine in line with the nation’s libertarian tradition.