Professor Audrey Gadzekpo

I am a media and communication scholar who actively engages on gender, media and governance issues in both my research and extension activities. 

My research interests can be clustered around four principal areas –  (1) Media, Democracy and Governance; (2) Media and Gender; (3) Media Histories and (4) Media and Developmental Challenges (e.g. conflict, climate change, marginalisation & participation, health).

In both theory and praxis, I strive to decolonize knowledge through historical revisioning and specificity in engaging on contemporary issues.  

My AfOx fellowship examined the contribution of local broadcasters to ‘information battles’ during the Second World War through the lens of an unpublished manuscript by a pioneer Ghanaian broadcaster. The project illuminates the diverse ways in which African broadcasters mobilized colonial subjects in support of the war effort and made their mark on wartime programming in the newly introduced mass medium.