Rate My Professor Sarah Chiumbu

Prof Sarah H Chiumbu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Johannesburg. She joined the University of Johannesburg in 2018. Prior to this appointment, she served as Senior Research Specialist in the Human and Social Development Research Programme at the Human Sciences Research Council. She previously spent seven years at the University of the Witwatersrand as a senior lecturer in media and communication studies.

Prof Chiumbu holds a PhD and an MA in media studies from the University of Oslo, Norway. Her research interests include media, democracy and citizenship, digital and alternative media, policy studies, social movements, African political thought, and decolonial and postcolonial theories. She has co-edited volumes such as Radio, Public Life and Citizen Deliberation in South Africa (Routledge, 2021) and Television in the Digital Age: Disjuncture, Continuities and Prospects (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), as well as Media Studies: Critical African and Decolonial Approaches (Oxford University Press, 2019). Additional publications include co-authored journal articles on topics such as media representation of land debates, surveillance regulation, print media transformation, and decolonial approaches to media political economy, appearing in outlets including African Journalism Studies and Communicatio.