Kola Daisi University, one of Nigeria’s growing private universities situated in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State, will make history on Wednesday, November 2024, as it holds its first inaugural lecture.
The inaugural lecture, to be delivered by a professor of Comparative Media Studies, Jendele Hungbo, is titled “Metaphor of the Self: New Epistemological Landscapes in African Media.”
A soft copy of the poster trending on social media reads: “The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Adeniyi Olatunbosun (SAN), on behalf of the Council, Senate, and Congress, invites the general public to the 1st Inaugural Lecture. Topic: ‘Metaphor of the Self: New Epistemological Landscapes in African Media’ by Prof. Jendele Hungbo (Professor of Comparative Media Studies).”
Hungbo is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Management, and Social Sciences.
Hungbo earned a B.A. (Hons) in English from the University of Ibadan in 1992, an M.A. in Communication and Language Arts in 2002, an M.A. in African Literature from the Department of African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand, and a PhD in Media Studies from the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
He has 32 publications to his credit, eight of which are Scopus-indexed, 22 international, and 10 local.
Hungbo is a professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Kola Daisi University, Ibadan. He is also a Research Associate with the Department of Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
His research interests span broadcast media, new (interactive) media, social media, postcolonial identities, and representations in African media, among others.
He previously taught at North-West University, Mafikeng, South Africa. A former Cadbury Fellow at the Centre for West African Studies, University of Birmingham, Hungbo was a recipient of the Volkswagen Stiftung Doctoral Fellowship and has shared his research at many local and international fora.
His scholarship draws partly from his experience as a broadcast journalist and television content producer, having spent fifteen years in the industry. His current research focuses on Interactive Media and the Performance of Identities in Nigeria and South Africa.
