Professor Winston Mano is a Reader/Associate Professor and a member of the University of Westminster’s top-rated Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI). He is the current Director of the Africa Media Centre and also a Course Leader for the MA in Media and Development, which he he helped create in 2011. He is the Principal Editor of the Journal of African Media Studies he established in 2009. He has researched, presented and published on issues related to media and communication in Africa, especially radio, audiences, journalism, music and democracy. He sits on the board of many international journals. He was the winner of the ZAA Academic Award in 2012.
Prod Mano's responsibilities include teaching BA and MA modules on media audiences, communication policy and development as well as supervising PhD students. Current PhD students include those looking at Strategic Public Relations in Ghana, Media Development, International News Coverage of Protests in China, and New ICTs and Health Communication in Nigeria. He has examined PhDs at other universities. He is a member of the C4D Network
Prof Mano has authored in and edited the following books: (2021) Routledge Handbook of African Media and Communication Studies (with viola c. milton), (2020)Social Media and Elections in Africa (with Martin N. Ndlela), Vol 1 & 2: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030326814; (2019) International Media Development: Historical Perspectives and New Frontiers (with Nicholas Benequista, Susan Abbott, Paul Rothman) https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/65486?format=HC, (2017) African Film Cultures: Contexts of Creation and Circulation (with Barbara Knorpp and Anuli Agina), available at: https://goo.gl/vjZndV, (2017) Everyday Media Culture in Africa: Audiences and Users (with Wendy Willems), available at: https://goo.gl/RasyPS, (2016), China’s Media and Soft Power in Africa: Promotion and Perceptions (with Xiaoling Zhang and Herman Wasserman), available at: https://goo.gl/2yuc1X, and (2015) Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa: Mediating Conflict in the Twenty-First Century, available at: http://bit.ly/1PA2elh .
Prof Mano has authored chapters in Global Media Ethics and the Digital Revolution (2021); Peace and Conflict Reporting (2021); Decolonising Journalism (2021); BRICS Media: Reshaping the Global Communication Order (2021); Global Media and National Policies: The Return of the State (2016), Participatory Politics and Citizen Journalism in a Networked Africa A Connected Continent(2015), Radio in Africa Publics, Cultures, Communities(2012), Popular Media, Democracy and Development In Africa (2011), Zimbabwe's New Diaspora: Displacement And The Cultural Politics of Survival(2010) and Internationalizing Media Studies(2009).
Prof Mano has also published in peer-reviewed journals such as Communicatio, Javnost, the Radio Journal, Interactions, Critical Arts, Global Media and Communication and Westminster Communication and Culture.
Prof Mano's research interests include Afrokology, Decoloniality; African radio, music, media audiences, new media and democracy, China- African media relations, African democracy and development. After he joined Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) he became Director of the Africa Media Centre and helped establish the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) Africa Media Series of conferences on 'Reporting Zimbabwe: Before and After 2000' (2005), 'Media and Social change in Africa' (2006), 'Media and Democracy in Africa' (2007) and the 'Media and Development in Africa' (2008); 'African-Arab Media Audiences' 2009, 'Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa' (2010), "Youth, Children and the Media in Africa" (2011), "ICTs and Social Change in Africa" (2012), "Public Service Broadcasting in Africa" (2013), African Film and Politics (2013) and The Media and Elections in Africa (2014). He has previously researched for the World Association of Newspaper (WAN) (2010).
