Join Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed in conversation with Kemigisa Jackline and Rejoice Abutsa to celebrate the North American launch of Media, Culture, and Decolonization. All are invited to be in conversation with the author as she discusses the subaltern media and cultural histories of Ghana.

WUNPINI FATIMATA MOHAMMED is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University. Her research is published in peer reviewed journals such as Communication Theory, the Howard Journal of Communications, The International Journal of Communication, Feminist Media Studies among others. She has won top paper awards at the International Communication Association, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, the International Association for Media and Communication Research and other academic conferences. She has worked as a radio journalist in Ghana for several years and her writing has appeared on Al Jazeera, The Washington Post, Global Voices, Okay Africa, and several Ghanaian media platforms.

Kemigisa Jackline is an independent journalist, researcher turned PhD student. Before choosing student life, she worked as a research affiliate with the Center for Arts, Design and Social Research, working with the team organizing the Black Planetary Future Conversations. Her latest research report maps anti-Blackness in Eastern Africa, focusing on the role of narratives in reinforcing oppressive systems. As a journalist, her work has appeared in Open Democracy, African Arguments, BBC Africa, Independent UK, and others. As a researcher, she contributes to the Northern Council for Global Cooperation’s Alternatives to Development Program that pursues decentering Western ways of being, knowing, and doing in international Development systems and practices.

Rejoice Abutsa is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University. Her research threads interdisciplinary knowledge and methods from Black Media Studies, Gender & Women Studies, Film Theory, and Digital Studies. In her doctoral dissertation, she reorients, reframes, and recalibrates the institutional, networked, and cultural labor of women workers in Nollywood, and broadly African cinema, arguing that these women loom large and are crucial innovators in the production and circulation of global black media.