2026–2027 · LMU Munich
Digital Publics, Protest and Everyday Speech in Africa
African digital publics, youth participation, online activism, content moderation and digital ethnography.
Current seminarTEACHING, CURRICULUM & MENTORSHIP
Connecting ideas
to lived experience.
My teaching connects media studies, digital society and research methods to African experiences. I have taught in Germany, Kenya and South Africa, from undergraduate classrooms to professional executive education.
Courses and teaching responsibilities
2023–present · Strathmore University
Professional executive education in public policy and governance
Designing, updating and teaching short courses for professional and policy audiences.
Executive education2023–2024 · University of Embu
Media and Communication programme
Undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, curriculum development, academic coordination and student mentoring.
Programme lead & lecturer2022–2023 · University of the Witwatersrand
Digital Media and Society
Social media, digital culture, privacy, participation and critical digital-media research.
Lecturer2018–2020 · University of the Witwatersrand
Reading Media Forms
Undergraduate teaching in Media Studies.
Co-teaching / doctoral teaching2018 · University of the Witwatersrand
Sociology of News Production
Undergraduate teaching in Media Studies.
Co-teaching / doctoral teaching2018–2019 · University of the Witwatersrand
Research Methods in Media and Cultural Studies
Undergraduate teaching in Media Studies.
Co-teaching / doctoral teaching2019 · University of the Witwatersrand
Media and Global Culture
Undergraduate teaching in Media Studies.
Co-teaching / doctoral teaching2019 · University of the Witwatersrand
New Media and Society
Undergraduate teaching in Media Studies.
Co-teaching / doctoral teachingMentorship and academic service
At Wits, I supervised and mentored 48 tutors over two years and contributed to the team recognised with the 2019 Vice-Chancellor’s Teaching and Learning Award. My experience also includes honours supervision, internal examination and curriculum development.
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