PhD. in journalism (University of Johannesburg, RSA), MSc, in journalism and media studies (NUST, Zim), Bsc journalism and media studies (NUST, Zim).

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Tshuma Lungile is an Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at the National University of Science and Technology (Zimbabwe). Lungile is also the Postgraduate coordinator. He holds a PhD in journalism studies from the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Lungile’s research interests are in photography, memory, journalism, and strategic communication. His work has been published in local and international journals such as the Journal of Genocide Research, African Journalism Studies, Critical Arts, Nations and Nationalism, Journal of Communication Inquiry, and Media, Culture and Society.

Selected publications:

Tshuma Lungile, Trust Matsilele, Mbongeni Jonny Msimanga, Sadia Jamil. 2024. Patterns of Harassment in African Journalism. London: Routledge.

Tshuma Lungile, Matsilele Trust, Mpofu Shepherd, Msimanga Mbongeni. 2024. Media, Social Movements and Protest Cultures in Africa. Washington: Rowman and Littlefield.

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

Tshuma, L and Sibanda, M. (2022). The media and commemoration of Robert Mugabe’s death through the Camera’s lens. Journal of Asia and African Studies, DOI: 10.1177/00219096221106077.

Tshuma, L; Msimanga, M.J. and Sibanda, M.N. (2022). “Playing” in the Eyes of the Ferret Team: Examining the Use of Surveillance Strategies by Zimbabwean Journalists, African Journalism Studies, DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2021.2009000

Matsilele, T; Tshuma, L.A; Msimanga, M. (2022). Reconfiguration and adaptation in times of a contagious crisis: a case of African newsrooms’ response to Covid-19 pandemic. Journal of Communication Inquiry, https://doi.org/10.1177/01968599221085702

Ndlovu, M and Tshuma, L. A. (2021). Bleeding from one generation to the next: The media and the constructions of Gukurahundi post memories by university students in Zimbabwe. African Studies https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2021.1987188.  

Tshuma, L. A. (2021). Through the lens of a camera: Photojournalism and the crises of Zimbabwe’s ‘Second Republic’, Africa Journalism Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/23743670.2021.1956557.     

Tshuma, L.A and Ndlovu, M. (2020). Immortalizing “Buried Memories”: Photographs of the Gukurahundi Online, Journal of Genocide Research, https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2020.1850393.

Tshuma, L.A. (2019). Political billboards, promise, and persuasion: An analysis of ZANU-PF’s 2018 harmonized elections political campaign, Journal of Marketing Communications, DOI: 10.1080/13527266.2019.1683057.  

Tshuma, L.A and Ndlovu, M. (2019). Remembering the past against the grain: An analysis of the reconstructions of the past in The Sunday News’s ‘Lest We Forget’ column, Nations and Nationalism 24,4: 1-20.  

Ndlovu, M, and Tshuma, L.A. (2019). Between tradition and modernity:   discourses on the coronation of the Ndebele ‘King’ in Zimbabwe, Critical Arts              DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2019.1691247.