Witness Roya

Witness Roya is a postdoctoral fellow with the Department of Communication at Mangosuthu University of Technology. He holds a PhD in Communication from the University of Fort Hare and has lectured English, Media and Communication in Zimbabwe and South Africa. Witness has interests in areas such as Governance, Political Communication, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Afrocentricity, Apartheid Studies, Visual Anthropology, Ethics and ChatGPT among others. His 2024 publications include “The Influence of African Oral Art Forms in Raising Climate Change Awareness in Oliver Mtukudzi’s ‘Pindirai’” In. Student’s Journal of Health Research Africa Vol. 5 No. 3 (2024): March 2024 Issue, “Newsday and the Herald’s Inclusion of Disabled People in the Use of Digital Media in Zimbabwe” (Chapter 5). In. Digitisation, AI and Algorithms in African Journalism and Media Contexts: Practice,Policy and Critical Literacies Edited by Dralega, C.A (both co-authored with Prof S. Ngcobo) and “Realist. or chauvinist? A critique of Tawona Shadaya Knight’s Tweets concerning objectification of women” (Chapter 15) In. Political Economy of African Popular Culture edited by Aiseng, K and Fadipe, I.A. Witness has a few papers which are in press and are set to be published later this year (2024). One of these, a book chapter “Neocolonial Framing of Developing and Developed Countries Attitudes Towards Covid-19 in The Guardian and Al-Jazeera Newspapers” will appear in Decolonizing Africa in a Digitized Age edited by Akpan, U and Onwumechili, C.

Publications

Framing of Opinion Leaders' COVID-19 Stance(s) on society: The Case of Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri's Comments in Studio 7 and Zim Eye
Framing of Opinion Leaders' COVID-19 Stance(s) on society: The Case of Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri's Comments in Studio 7 and Zim Eye
Witness Roya. © 2024. 23 pages.
Using framing as a springboard and critical discourse analysis as the methodology, this chapter aims to conduct a thoroughgoing exegesis of two speeches that were made by Oppah...