Last Moyo
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Last Moyo's experience spans Africa, Europe, and Asia having taught at the University of Wales, the UN-mandated University for Peace Graduate Programme in East Asia, Wits, MSU, the National University of Science and Technology, and American University, and XJTLU. He holds a PhD in Media and Communication Studies from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (UK) and has an MA, BA, and Post Graduate Diploma from the University of Zimbabwe. Moyo also holds the prestigious Economic and Social Research Council (UK) Post Graduate Research and Professional Certificate also attained from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He has numerous Corporate Communication qualifications like Higher Diplomas from the UK comprising Group Diploma in Marketing, PR, and Advertising (London Chamber of Commerce and Industry), Higher Diploma in Marketing (College of Professional Management, London), and Diploma in Management (College of Professional Management, London),
Moyo's teaching and research interests are in new media, African media systems, critical political economy, comparative journalism, global media, media policy, and Southern critical media theory. He has conducted several research and consultancy jobs with high-level organisations such as the Open Society Initiative of Southern Africa (OSISA) (South Africa) , IDRC Canada (with Carleton University, Canada), Panos (South Africa), Panos (Zambia), MISA (Zimbabwe), Health-e (South Africa), Savanna Tobacco (Zimbabwe), etc. He is also highly published in the areas of new media technologies, convergence cultures, citizen journalism, digital divide, media and human rights, and media ethics.
Last Moyo's experience spans Africa, Europe, and Asia having taught at the University of Wales, the UN-mandated University for Peace Graduate Programme in East Asia, Wits, MSU, the National University of Science and Technology, and American University, and XJTLU. He holds a PhD in Media and Communication Studies from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (UK) and has an MA, BA, and Post Graduate Diploma from the University of Zimbabwe. Moyo also holds the prestigious Economic and Social Research Council (UK) Post Graduate Research and Professional Certificate also attained from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He has numerous Corporate Communication qualifications like Higher Diplomas from the UK comprising Group Diploma in Marketing, PR, and Advertising (London Chamber of Commerce and Industry), Higher Diploma in Marketing (College of Professional Management, London), and Diploma in Management (College of Professional Management, London),
Moyo's teaching and research interests are in new media, African media systems, critical political economy, comparative journalism, global media, media policy, and Southern critical media theory. He has conducted several research and consultancy jobs with high-level organisations such as the Open Society Initiative of Southern Africa (OSISA) (South Africa) , IDRC Canada (with Carleton University, Canada), Panos (South Africa), Panos (Zambia), MISA (Zimbabwe), Health-e (South Africa), Savanna Tobacco (Zimbabwe), etc. He is also highly published in the areas of new media technologies, convergence cultures, citizen journalism, digital divide, media and human rights, and media ethics.
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—John Hartley, Professor of Digital media and Culture, The University of Sydney, Australia
"This book is a unique theoretical contribution to the de-Westernising and multi-culturalism debates in media and communication studies. It adds a fresh and robust African voice to the contemporary debates about the theoretical directions of our field. Last Moyo provides a new critical imagination which goes beyond Africa as he both rethinks and unthinks the field within conditions of the Global South. Moyo asks if the South can produce its own radical critical media theory informed by its colonial subalternity in the Euro-American world system? His answer, based on a deep reflection and critical engagement with current debates, is deep, conceptually nuanced, and impressively optimistic."-Dr. Winston Mano, Reader in Media and Communication Studies, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of African Media Studies; University of Westminster, United Kingdom
"With this book, Last Moyo has added a powerful and unequivocal voice to the project of the decolonization of media and communication studies. With a multi-cultural and non-partisan lens, the book provides us a deep gaze into the knowledge politics of the interdiscipline. This work represents a bold statement from Moyo about the significance of decolonizing media and communication studies for a true multicultural theory. This effort deserves our resounding applause."-Professor Abiodun Salawu,
Papers by Last Moyo
—John Hartley, Professor of Digital media and Culture, The University of Sydney, Australia
"This book is a unique theoretical contribution to the de-Westernising and multi-culturalism debates in media and communication studies. It adds a fresh and robust African voice to the contemporary debates about the theoretical directions of our field. Last Moyo provides a new critical imagination which goes beyond Africa as he both rethinks and unthinks the field within conditions of the Global South. Moyo asks if the South can produce its own radical critical media theory informed by its colonial subalternity in the Euro-American world system? His answer, based on a deep reflection and critical engagement with current debates, is deep, conceptually nuanced, and impressively optimistic."-Dr. Winston Mano, Reader in Media and Communication Studies, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of African Media Studies; University of Westminster, United Kingdom
"With this book, Last Moyo has added a powerful and unequivocal voice to the project of the decolonization of media and communication studies. With a multi-cultural and non-partisan lens, the book provides us a deep gaze into the knowledge politics of the interdiscipline. This work represents a bold statement from Moyo about the significance of decolonizing media and communication studies for a true multicultural theory. This effort deserves our resounding applause."-Professor Abiodun Salawu,
or dialogue with each other. The establishment of the Journalism
studies journal about two decades ago has created the much needed platform for cultural ferment and a kind of heterotopia that is necessary to transform the sub-discipline. Needless to say, the debate on decolonizing journalism as a study and practice is increasingly taking shape. Like other disciplines, journalism studies is engaged in a reflective and soul-searching journey about the need to transform itself towards a more diverse and inclusive multicultural theory that is anchored on the values of humanity, social justice, and cognitive justice.
Ever since my Africa day poem in the 1990s, I have always written poetry throughout my life. My first anthology of about 30 poems was written when I was at high school. I have always taken time to re-read it from now discoloured exercise book in my book shelf at my parents home in Zimbabwe. There were no computers at school then, so the exercise book was the most ideal platform. When I reflect on my childhood anthology I laugh as most of it captures my adolescent, youthful, years that were characterised by energy, rebellion, and boundless fantasies on social life.. My second anthology of about 20 or so poems, appears here, but also in my other long deserted blog that I used when I headed the UN university for peace programme in Media in the far East. All of these poems were written in the UK in the idyllic landscapes of Wales during my PhD studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Going through them reflects my years of promise, happiness, loneliness, and optimism as both my personal and academic life were shaping up.