PhD Journalism and Media Studies (Rhodes University, RSA), MA, Journalism and Media Studies (Rhodes University, RSA), BSc Hons, Journalism and Media Studies (NUST, Zim)

Email: nonhlanhla.ndlovu@nust.ac.zw

Dr Nonhlanhla Ndlovu is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies. She holds a PhD from Rhodes University, South Africa. Dr. Ndlovu has extensive research expertise in a wide range of topics such as gender and the media, tabloidization, humor, and politics, as well as journalism practice. Her current research interests revolve around de/de-coloniality, constructions of identity online, and social belonging. In her research, Dr Ndlovu foregrounds the lived realities of women in the global South, with a broader concern for social justice.

Selected publications:

Ndlovu, N. 2023. Coloniality and the Mbuya Nehanda statue: A decolonial analysis of Twitter users’ comments, Critical Arts DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2023.2201710

Ndlovu, M., Ndlovu N., Tshuma, L. A., Mloyi, K & Shava, G.N. 2023. Dress Policing at Higher Learning Institutions in Zimbabwe: Discourses on the Bulawayo Polytechnic College Dress Code Declaration, Journal of Asian and African Studies, DOI: 10.1177/00219096231215706

Tshuma, L. A., Ndlovu, N., & Tshuma, B.B. 2023. Ethical challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic: Zimbabwean journalists’ perspectives. In Chari, T and Ndlela, M (eds). Global Pandemics and Media Ethics: Issues and Perspectives. 73-87. NY: Routledge. ISBN: 978-1-032-30612-4

Ndlovu, N. 2021. ‘A nation that laughs together stays together’: Deconstructing humor on Twitter during the national lockdown in South Africa.’ In Mpofu, S. (ed.) Digital Humour in the Covid-19 Pandemic: Perspectives from the Global South. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. 191-212. ISBN: 978-3-030-79279-4

Dewa, N. and Prinsloo, J. 2012. ‘I am a man!’ the Daily Sun campaign and gender violence. Equid Novi: African Journalism Studies. 33 (2): 20-35.