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AI-Driven Disinformation and Political Influence on WhatsApp in South Africa’s 2024 Elections
The International Journal of Press/Politics (2025), 20 pp.
"This study investigates the role of encrypted messaging apps, specifically WhatsApp, in disseminating political disinformation during South Africa’s 2024 general elections. Drawing on a dataset of 22,384 messages from 47 politically active WhatsApp groups and 6,283 unique users, the study identif
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ChatGPT and the Global South: How Are Journalists in Sub-Saharan Africa Engaging with Generative AI?
Online Media and Global Communication, volume 2, issue 2 (2023), pp. 228-249
"The study highlights that generative AI like ChatGPT operates on a limited and non-representative African corpus, making it selective on what is considered civil and uncivil language, thus limiting its effectiveness in the region. However, the study also suggests that in the absence of representati
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Can African Scholars Speak? Situating African Voices in International Communication Scholarship
Media, Culture & Society, volume 44, issue 4 (2022), pp. 848-859
"This article seeks to contribute and engage with debates pertaining to epistemology, knowledge production, and positionality of ‘International Communication Studies’ (ICS) in sub-Saharan Africa. The study operates on the assumption that International Communication studies in most Sub-Saharan Af
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Data Journalism Practice in Sub-Saharan African Media Systems: A Cross-National Survey of Journalists’ Perceptions in Zambia and Tanzania
African Journalism Studies, volume 43, issue 2 (2022), pp. 21-36
"This study explores the state of data-driven journalism practices in Sub-Saharan Africa. It aims at examining journalists’ perceptions of data-driven journalism in Zambia and Tanzania as it attempts to redefine and demystify the concept. We base our hypotheses on the notion that most journalists
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Motivations for Sharing Misinformation: A Comparative Study in Six Sub-Saharan African Countries
International Journal of Communication, volume 15 (2021), pp. 1200-1219
"In most African countries, “fake news,” politically motivated disinformation, and misinformation in the media were common occurrences before these became a preoccupation in the Global North. However, with a fast-growing population of mobile users, and the popularization of apps such as WhatsApp
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