معرفی
j. Siguru Wahutu is an Assistant Professor of Sociology & African Studies at Yale University and a Fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies (Yale) and the Center for the Study of African Societies and Economies (Harvard). His research focuses on media representations of human rights in postcolonial Africa, global news flows, postcolonial land claims, and the political economy of international media. He holds a Ph.D. (2018) and B.A. (2010) from the University of Minnesota.
Research Interests:
- Media Sociology and Genocide Documentation
- Data Privacy in African Contexts
- Transnational News Flows & Postcolonial Narratives
- Political Economy of International Media
Book: In the Shadow of the Global North: Journalism in Postcolonial Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2024), analyzes African journalists' representations of Darfur and broader postcolonial journalistic landscapes. His second book project, Silicon Colonists: 21st Century Scramble for Africa, examines digital colonialism and media manipulation.
Publications: Works appear in African Journalism Studies, African Affairs, International Journal of Press/Politics, and others. Focuses on decolonizing media narratives and global North-South power dynamics.
