Dumisani Moyo is currently the executive dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the North-West University (NWU). He earned a doctoral degree in Media and Communication Studies from the University of Oslo in 2006, after completing a Master of Philosophy degree at the same university in 1998. He was a recipient of scholarships from the Norwegian Council of Universities Committee for Development Research and Education (NUFU) and the NORAD Fellowship Programme for both his master’s-degree and doctoral studies. Prior to that, he had completed a BA (Hons) degree in English (1991) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Media and Communication Studies (1995) at the University of Zimbabwe. His previous professional experience includes having been senior lecturer and head of the Department of Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; visiting lecturer at the University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; research fellow at the University of Oslo; Fulbright Scholar in Residence at the College of Lake County and William Rainey Harper College, Illinois, USA; and lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe.
Prior to joining the NWU in 2021, Moyo served as associate professor in the School of Communication, and later as vice-dean for Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Before that, he worked as regional programme manager for Media and Access to Information at the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA), and as Africa regional manager for the Strengthening Media and Society Project of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) between 2015 and 2016.
Moyo is an internationally recognised scholar, with a Google h-index currently at 15 and more than a thousand citations (see: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=W9FdjpEAAAAJ). He is also highly rated as a scholar by the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa with a C2 first rating. His research interests include media policy and regulation, and media, politics, culture and technology in Africa, and he has published widely in these areas. His major works include four co-edited books: Radio in Africa: Publics, Cultures, Communities (Wits Press, 2011); Media Policy in a Changing Southern Africa: Critical Reflections on Media Reforms in the Global Age (UNISA Press, 2010); Mediating Xenophobia in Africa: Unpacking Discourses of Migration, Belonging and Othering (Palgrave, 2020); and Re-imagining Communication in Africa and the Caribbean: Global South Issues in Media, Culture and Technology (Palgrave, 2021). He serves as a board member of a number of international organisations, including the African Studies Association (ASA); the Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation (IPATC); Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) and the Investigative Journalism Hub (IJ-Hub), where he is currently the board chairperson.
