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

Email: mphathisi.ndlovu@nust.ac.zw

Mphathisi Ndlovu is an Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at the National University of Science and Technology (Zimbabwe). Mphathisi is also a research fellow at Stellenbosch University (South Africa). He is also an alumnus of the Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability (AHDA) fellowship at Columbia University's Institute for the Study of Human Rights (2021/2022). Mphathisi holds a PhD in Journalism from Stellenbosch University. His research interests are in collective memory, identity politics, and digital cultures.  Mphathisi’s works have been published as book chapters, and peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Digital Journalism, African Cultural Studies, Journal of Genocide Research, and Nations and Nationalism.

Selected publications:

 Mphathisi Ndlovu, Lungile Tshuma, and Shepherd Mpofu. (eds.). 2024. Remembering Mass Atrocities: Perspectives on Memory Struggles and Cultural Representations in Africa. Cham: Palgrave MacMillan.

Mlotshwa, Khanyile and Mphathisi Ndlovu (eds.). 2022. The Idea of Matabeleland in Digital Spaces: Genealogies, Discourses and Epistemic Struggles. Lexington Books.

Ndlovu, Mphathisi and Nkosini Khupe. “Online harassment of journalists in Zimbabwe: Experiences, Coping Strategies, and Implications”. In New Journal Ecologies in East and Southern Africa: Innovations, Participatory and Newsmaking cultures (edited by Trust Marseille, Shepherd Mpofu and Dumisani Mpofu). Palgrave MacMillan. 95-111

Sibanda, Makhosi Nkanyiso, and Mphathisi Ndlovu. 2023. “An alternative arena for "communities of resistance"? Podcasting, democratic spaces and counterpublics in Zimbabwe”. In Tsarwe Stanley and Sarah Chiumbu (eds.). Converged radio, youth, and urbanity in Africa. Palgrave MacMillan. 37-53.

Mphathisi Ndlovu and Vimbai Beritah Chinembiri. 2022. The Discursive Legitimation of the November 2017 ‘Coup’ in Zimbabwe’s Mainstream Newspapers. In Mangena, T., Nyambi, O, and Ncube, G. (Eds.). The Zimbabwean Crisis after Mugabe: Discourse and Complexities of Transition. New York: Routledge. 119-137.

Ndlovu, Mphathisi. 2021. Political humor in the time of COVID-19 pandemic: A critical analysis of the subversive meanings of WhatsApp memes in Zimbabwe. In Digital humor in the COVID-19 pandemic: Perspectives from the Global South (edited by Shepherd Mpofu). Cham: Palgrave MacMillan. 259-277.

Mphathisi Ndlovu and Maame Nikabs. 2023. COVID-19 and the constructions of Africa in African news media. Journal of African Media Studies. 15 (2): 179-198.

Tshuma, Bhekizulu Bethaphi., Lungile Augustine Tshuma, and Mphathisi Ndlovu. 2022. Twitter and political discourses: how supporters of Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU PF party use Twitter for political engagement. Journal of Eastern African Studies. DOI:10.1080/17531055.2022.2076385

Ndlovu, Mphathisi and Lungile A. Tshuma. 2021. Bleeding from one generation to the next: The media and the constructions of Gukurahundi post memories by university students in Zimbabwe. African Studies 80 (3-4): 376-396.

Ndlovu, Mphathisi, and Makhosi Nkanyiso Sibanda. 2021. Digital Technologies and the Changing Journalism Cultures in Zimbabwe: Examining the Lived Experiences of Journalists Covering the COVID-19 Pandemic. Digital Journalism. DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2021.1976065

Ndlovu, Mphathisi. 2018. Speaking for the dead: Testimonies, witnesses and the representations of Gukurahundi atrocities in new media. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 30 (3): 293-306.