Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

Communication/Media Studies
Howard University
2006

Master of Arts (M.A.)

African and African American Literature
Yaounde University

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

English
Yaounde University

International Media

Intercultural/ Media and Diaspora Communications

African and African American Digital Media Studies

Research methods

Intercultural communication

Conflict and communication management

Qualitative and quantitative communication research

NCA Distinguished scholarship Award for leadership in Africana Communication, 2020

Toyin Falola Africa Book Award, 2017

ICA Africa Research and Publication Training Workshop Award, 2017

Black ‘race’ and the White Supremacy Saga

Black ‘race’ and the White Supremacy Saga

This book examines the conundrum that has haunted the Black and White ancestry for ages on what supremacy actually means. Is it Black or White supremacy? Granted, the term White supremacy has occupied the sociopolitical, cultural and economic discourse for ages, but what does that really imply? All other ancestries on planet earth have been coerced to believe that conformity to Euro-American lifestyle is the way to become ‘civilized’ on planet earth. But the term civilization owes its genesis to the African cultural and educational achievements in Egypt. Consequently, Black ancestry, the first human species on planet earth, should lead mankind to cultural and epistemological supremacy but that has always been met with skepticism. This book examines this debate, especially between the Black and White ancestry.

Black Communication in the Age of Disinformation

Black Communication in the Age of Disinformation: DeepFakes and Synthetic Media

This book explores the consequences of the changing landscape of media communication on Black interactions in the virtual space. Current developments in technology, such as facial recognition, have already disproportionately affected people of color, especially people of African descent. The rise of DeepFakes and other forms of Fake News online has brought a host of new impacts and potential obstacles to the way that Black communities communicate. With a focus on the emergence of DeepFakes, and AI Synthetic Media, contributors have explored a range of themes and topics, including but not limited to: How do AI and digital algorithms impact people of color? How does Social Media shape Black women's perception of their body? How vulnerable are young Africans to social media generated fake news?

Black Lives and Digi-Culturalism

Black Lives and Digi-Culturalism: An Afrocentric Perspective

Black Lives and Digi-Culturalism: An Afrocentric Perspective uses several lenses to examine the role of African Americans and Africans in the production and consumption of information in digital spaces. This book explores topics such as Black confluence of digital and in-person spaces, cyberculture and Black identity, cyberfeminists and Black gendered voices, digi-culture and racism, capitalism and digital colonization, digital activism and politics, minorities and artificial intelligence, among other topics. Scholars of African and Black Diaspora studies, digital media culture, and communication will find this book particularly interesting.

Decolonizing the African Mind in the Digital Space

Decolonizing the African Mind in the Digital Space in African Media Space and Globalization (pp. 343-354)

As the communication discipline is witnessing a paradigm crisis, the entire human race is also witnessing another crisis: that of struggling to resolve in-person communication, which is rapidly being replaced by virtual/online communication. These two crises have stormed the geo-social and cultural spaces at the wrong time in human history. COVID-19 has invaded inter-human economic, social, and political spaces and has drastically transformed its multicultural spaces and it is not letting up. Therefore, communication for humankind is no longer what it used to be and the situation is dire for communicators and communicologists in the subaltern, especially for those in the African digital communicative spaces.

To be or not to be: decolonizing African media/communications

To be or not to be: decolonizing African media/communications in Routledge Handbook of African Media and Communication Studies

In June 2009, Facebook Swahili was launched by Swahili scholars in the west. This marked a major step towards decolonizing media dissemination and consumption in the horn of Africa from the claws of western domineering languages. Electronic and digital media engineers from abroad never take pains to spend years and months in our countries to study our communicative cosmologies. The colonial experiment on the continent of Africa created an epistemic inferiority in the cognitive abilities of her citizens. Africans are still suffering from mental incarceration brought unto them by European conquest of the continent. Vast populations of Africans in rural settings, suburban communities and cities have stuck to their indigenous languages. However, these populations are marginalized because priority is given to those proficient in the colonial languages. Years of subjugation of the African people to occupy the inferior position on the ladder of human progress has had a serious toll on them and the mental evolution of its subsequent generations.