Dr Winston Mano
Favourite Saying: “The role of media in development is more impactful when different ways of knowing and being in the world are centered to expand existing epistemes and practices”.
Winston Mano is a Reader and a member of the University of Westminster’s top-rated Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI). He is also a Course Leader for the MA in Media and Development and the Founder/Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of African Media Studies.
Winston 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 .
Winston 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).
Winston 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.
Winston 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 CAMRI he became Director of the Africa Media Centre and helped establish the 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). Mano has previously researched for the World Association of Newspaper (WAN) (2010).
In March 2013, Mano worked on a public service broadcasting project supported by UNESCO and sponsored by £5000 from BBC Media Action. He was part of a successful Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation (CCFK) research bid (EUR50,000) as joint researcher with Professors Herman Wasserman (Rhodes University, South Africa) and Xiaoling Zhang (Nottingham University) on the project examining China's Soft Power in Africa. He collaborated with colleagues at The Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) in Norway on China-Africa media relations (2013-2015). In 2013, he was awarded (together with Dr Lynete Mukhongo from Moi University, Kenya) £10,000 under The British Academy's International Partnership and Mobility Scheme (2013-2014).
Winston Mano is Co-Director of the Chevening Media Freedom Fellowships (CAMFF) (2020-2023). He was part of a drafting committee at the Continental Conference on Media Legislative Reforms and Transforming State Broadcasters into Public Broadcasters in Africa held in Midrand, South Africa from 2-3 December, 2013, hosted by the Pan-African Parliament (PAP), the Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project (AfriMAP), the Open Society Initiative of Southern Africa (OSISA), Article 19 and the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA).
Mano has also worked with the US-based Centre for International Media Assistance (CIMA) on a media development book-project, supported by sector wide meetings that involve BBC Media Action, Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD), UNESCO and other media development bodies. Mano currently participates in the the DFID-funded and BBC-led Protecting Independent Media for Effective Development (PRIMED) Research Technical Advisory Group (since 2020). PRIMED is a three-year project to support public interest media essential for good governance and more informed societies. The project is carried out in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Sierra Leone, and funded by UK Aid through the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. The project includes editorial development, training and support that helps build resilience to political and economic pressures. Led by BBC Media Action, core consortium partners are Article 19, Free Press Unlimited, International Media Support and the Media Development Investment Fund. Further support is provided by DW Akademie, Global Forum for Media Development, Global Voices and The Communication Initiative.