Lungile Tshuma

Assistant Professor

Bio

Lungile Augustine Tshuma is a Researcher in the Centre for Communication and Culture, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal. Prior to this, he was a senior post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Lungile, an experienced journalist, worked for The Chronicle and The Sunday News publications in Zimbabwe before joining the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at the National University of Science and Technology in Zimbabwe. Lungile’s research interest are on photography, memory, and journalism studies. His work has been published in local and international journals such as Journal of Genocide Research, African Journalism Studies, Critical Arts, Nations and Nationals, Journal of Communication Inquiry, and Media, Culture and Society. Lungile has is an author of a monograph Photographing the Liberation Struggle in Zimbabwe: Politics, Power, and the Images of Zenzo Nkobi, and has edited several titles namely:  Patterns of Harassment in African Journalism; Media, Social Movements, and Protest Cultures in Africa Hashtags, Humor, and Slogans; Remembering mass atrocities: Perspectives on Memory Struggles and Cultural Representation.
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Dress Policing at Higher Learning Institutions in Zimbabwe: Discourses on the Bulawayo Polytechnic College Dress Code Declaration

Lungile Tshuma (with Mphathisi Ndlovu). 2025. Journal of Asian and African Studies
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Freelance journalism in Zimbabwe: Challenges and opportunities

Lungile Tshuma (with Lungile Tshuma). 2025. Journalism
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Platform activism and the mediation of electoral process in semi-authoritarian regimes

Lungile Tshuma (with Lungile Augustine Tshuma). 2025. Howard Journal of Communications
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Reporting on Science in the Southern African Context: Exploring Influences on Journalistic Practice

Lungile Tshuma (with Trust Matsilele). 2025. Journal of Asian and African Studies
Book Chapter

Decolonising Memory Studies: Remembering from Africa

Lungile Tshuma (with Tshuma, L.). 2024. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
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Defence-less defenders

Lungile Tshuma (with Lungile Tshuma). 2024. Patterns of harassment in African journalism
Book Chapter

Digital inequality in Africa's ethnic minorities

Lungile Tshuma (with Lungile Tshuma). 2024.
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Journalists' repression, harassment and attacks in Eswatini and Botswana

Lungile Tshuma (with Magnificent Mndebele). 2024. Patterns of harassment in African journalism
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Laughing through the Stomach: Satire, Humour and Advertising in Sub-Saharan Africa

Lungile Tshuma (with Lungile Augustine Tshuma). 2024. Journal of Asian and African Studies
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Mass Atrocities and Memory Struggles in Africa and the Global South

Lungile Tshuma (with Tshuma, L.). 2024. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
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Patterns of Harassment in African Journalism

Lungile Tshuma (with Lungile Augustine Tshuma). 2024. Routledge
Book

Photographing the liberation struggle in Zimbabwe

Lungile Tshuma (with Lungile Augustine Tshuma). 2024.
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The Media and the Commemoration of Robert Mugabe’s Death through the Camera’s Lens

Lungile Tshuma (with Lungile Augustine Tshuma). 2024. Journal of Asian and African Studies
Book Chapter

Time to act

Lungile Tshuma (with Bhekizulu Tshuma). 2024. Patterns of harassment in African journalism
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‘Behold, it’s new’: Photojournalism and political communication in Zimbabwe

Lungile Tshuma (with Lungile Augustine Tshuma). 2024. Journal of Visual Political Communication
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Contending with Sexual Harassment: A Study of Southern African Female Journalists’ Experiences

Lungile Tshuma (with Mbongeni Jonny Msimanga). 2023. Journal of Communication Inquiry
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Heir to the throne: photography and the rise to presidency by politicians in Zimbabwe and South Africa

Lungile Tshuma (with Tshuma, L.A.). 2023. Visual Studies
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Popular music and political contestations in Zimbabwe: An analysis of Winky D’s and Jah Prayzah’s music

Lungile Tshuma (with Trust Matsilele). 2023. Journal of African Media Studies
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Through the Media Looking Glass: Journalists’ Perceptions on South Africa’s Funded Environmental Journalism

Lungile Tshuma (with Matsilele, T.). 2023. African Journalism Studies
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Ethical challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic

Lungile Tshuma (with Lungile Augustine Tshuma). 2022.
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Journalism pedagogy and ICTs in a time of pandemic: A case study of selected journalism schools in Southern Africa

Lungile Tshuma (with Msimanga, M.). 2022. World of Media
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Media Discourses on Gender in the Time of COVID-19 Pandemic in Zimbabwe

Lungile Tshuma 2022. Health Crises and Media Discourses in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mediating a regime in crisis: corruption and succession in Zimbabwe’s state media

Lungile Tshuma 2022. Media, Culture & Society
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Reconstruction and Adaptation in Times of a Contagious Crisis: A Case of African Newsrooms’ Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic

Lungile Tshuma (with Trust Matsilele). 2022. Journal of Communication Inquiry
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The why of humour during a crisis: An exploration of COVID-19 memes in South Africa and Zimbabwe

Lungile Tshuma 2022. Journal of African Media Studies
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Twitter and political discourses: how supporters of Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU PF party use Twitter for political engagement

Lungile Tshuma 2022. Journal of Eastern African Studies
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‘Weapons of Oppressors’: COVID-19 Regulatory Framework and its Impact on Journalism Practices in Southern Africa

Lungile Tshuma 2022. Health Crises and Media Discourses in Sub-Saharan Africa
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“Playing” in the Eyes of the Ferret Team: Examining the Use of Surveillance Strategies by Zimbabwean Journalists

Lungile Tshuma 2022. African Journalism Studies
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An analysis of internet memes and discourses on traditional medicines as remedies for covid-19 in Zimbabwe

Lungile Tshuma (with Msimanga, M.J.). 2021. Digital Humour in the Covid-19 Pandemic: Perspectives from the Global South
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Bleeding from One Generation to the Next: The Media and the Constructions of Gukurahundi Postmemories by University Students in Zimbabwe

Lungile Tshuma 2021. African Studies
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Humour, politics and mnangagwa's presidency: An analysis of readers' comments in online news websites

Lungile Tshuma (with Tshuma, B.B.). 2021. The Politics of Laughter in the Social Media Age: Perspectives from the Global South
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Political billboards, promise, and persuasion: An analysis of ZANU-PF’s 2018 harmonized elections political campaign

Lungile Tshuma 2021. Journal of Marketing Communications
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Through the Lens of a Camera: Photojournalism and the Crises of Zimbabwe’s “Second Republic”

Lungile Tshuma 2021. African Journalism Studies
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Immortalizing “Buried Memories”: Photographs of the Gukurahundi Online

Lungile Tshuma 2020. Journal of Genocide Research
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Succession Politics and Factional Journalism in Zimbabwe: A Case of The Chronicle in Zimbabwe

Lungile Tshuma (with Chuma, W.). 2020. African Journalism Studies
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ZANU–PF Women’s League and the (Re)configuration of Political Power in Influencing Succession Politics in Zimbabwe

Lungile Tshuma (with Tshuma, L.A.). 2020. Contributions to Political Science
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Between Tradition and Modernity: Discourses on the Coronation of the Ndebele “King” in Zimbabwe

Lungile Tshuma 2019. Critical Arts
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Remembering the past against the grain: an analysis of the reconstructions of the past in The Sunday News 's ‘ Lest We Forget ’ column

Lungile Tshuma 2019. Nations and Nationalism
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The role of photography in communicating climate change in Zimbabwe

Lungile Tshuma (with Tariro Musere). African Journalism Studies
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Through the camera's eye

Lungile Tshuma (with Lungile Augustine Tshuma). African Studies