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Wunpini Mohammed

Wunpini Mohammed
University of Georgia

Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed is an assistant professor of global media industries in the College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia and an affiliate faculty at the African Studies Institute. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Ghana and a master’s degree at Michigan Technological University. She completed her PhD in Mass Communications with a minor in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and an African Studies concentration at the Bellisario College of Communications at the Pennsylvania State University in 2019. She is currently working on a book (co-edited with Msia Kibona Clark) on African Women in Digital Spaces: Redefining Social Movements on the Continent and in the Diaspora (forthcoming 2021). She is currently the Student and Early Career Representative of the Ethnicity and Race in Communication Division of the International Communication Association (ICA). She recently accepted an invitation to join the editorial board of the Communication, Culture & Critique journal. She has led study abroad trips to major towns and cities in South Africa. Her research which focuses on feminisms, broadcast media, development communication, indigenous language African media and political economy of communication have appeared in Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, Communication: South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research, Journal of Radio & Audio Media and Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology. She has worked as a radio journalist in Ghana for several years and has done some public scholarship on Al Jazeera, Africa is a country, Global Voices, Okay Africa, and several Ghanaian media platforms including the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation.

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