Nigeria, June 19 -- Dauda Adamu Kahutu, popularly known as "Rarara", one of northern Nigeria's most influential political praise singers, has suddenly found himself bleeding in the court of public opinion. His unsolicited, uncharitable intervention on national issues landed at a moment when emotions run feverish, anti-government sentiment rules the air, and there is a desperate attempt to crown one narrative as absolute truth that is sacred, untouchable, beyond debate.

Yet life keeps teaching us that truth rarely wears a clean jersey marked "good" or "evil". Framing theory reminds us that audiences don't just consume facts; they consume the frames through which facts are packaged, and those frames decide heroes and villains before judgm...