Education:
Ph.D. (Mass Communications) University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, 1989
Ph.D. minor (Business Administration) University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, 1988
Certificate in African Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, 1987
M.A. (Journalism) St. Petersburg State University, Russia, 1979

(Selected) Research publications:

Books

• Development and Communication in Africa. With Charles Okigbo, eds. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004).
  

• Journalism and Mass Communication in Africa: Cameroon. With Enoh Tanjong, eds. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, 2002).
  

• In Search of Greatness: Russia’s Communications with Africa and the World.   (Westport, Conn: Ablex/Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001).
  

• Press Freedom and Communication in Africa. With William Jong-Ebot, eds. (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1997). 
  

• Window on Africa: Democratization and Media Exposure. With Oyeleye Oyediran, Mulatu Wubneh, and Leo Zonn, eds. (Greenville, NC: Center For International Programs, East Carolina University, 1993).
  

Articles

“Reporting under Civilian and Military Rulers in Africa: Journalists’ Perceptions of Press Freedom and Media Exposure in Cameroon and Nigeria.” With Enoh Tanjong. Ecquid Novi, 19 (2) 1999: 39-55.
 
“Global News Flow in Africa: Nigerian Media Coverage of International News, 1979-1995.” The Western Journal of Black Studies, 23 (3)  1999: 153-162. (Acceptance rate: 10%-12%).
 
"Exploring Reporters’ Sensitivity to the Military Regime on a local Nigerian Setting.” African Rural and Urban Studies, 4 (1) 1997: 87-93.
 
“Cultural Proximity, Topic Emphasis and Sources of Nigerian Media Coverage of International News.” Ecquid Novi, 18, (1997): 264-276. (Acceptance rate: 32%).
 
“Military Interests and Cultural Proximity in the Coverage of Somalia and Former Yugoslavia by Two Russian Newspapers.” With Osa Amienyi. Southwestern Mass Communication Journal 13 (1997): 1-8. (Acceptance rate: 32%).
 
 "Job satisfaction, commitment and perceptions of Nigerian journalists under military rule." The Western Journal of Black Studies, 20 (1996): 188-194. (Acceptance rate: 10%-12%).
 
 “International Media Use By Nigerian Journalists: A Survey.” Gazette 58, (1996): 131-139. (Note: Some of the findings were broadcast worldwide by the Voice of America). (Acceptance rate: 15%).
 
“Higher Education in Nigeria: Decades of Development and Decline.” Issue XXIV:( 1996): 64-67. (Acceptance rate: n.a.).
 
"Pravda's Coverage of Africa, 1990-1992: A Content Analysis." The New Jersey Journal of Communication, 2, (1994): 55-68. (Acceptance rate: 32%)      
 
"Reporting Somalia and Former Yugoslavia in Russian Newspapers." Issue, XXII (1994): 28-32. (Acceptance rate: n.a.).
 
"International Organizations, News Sources, And Africa south of the Sahara: A  Content Analysis of Pravda, Izvestia, Trud, and Selskaya Zhizn, 1979-1987." The Howard Journal of Communications, 4,  (1993): 265-275. (Acceptance rate: 18%).
 
"Coverage of Africa south of the Sahara by Pravda, Izvestia, Trud, and Selskaya Zhizn, 1979-1987: A Content Analysis." Journalism Quarterly, 70 (1993): 51-57. (Acceptance rate: 17%).
 
"Politics And Media in Russian-sub-Saharan African Relations: An Historical Perspective.” With Stephen Vaughn. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 17, (1993): 23-35. (Acceptance rate: 18%).
 
"Pravda's Coverage of the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident at the Threshold of Glasnost." With Gary D. Gaddy. The Howard Journal of Communications 3, (1992): 242-252. (Acceptance rate: 18%).
 
"The Changing Media in USSR: New Evidence From A Recent Survey." With Stephen Vaughn and Hayg Oshagan. Gazette, 45, (1990): 189-202. (Acceptance rate: 15%).

Chapters
 
“African Development and Innovation of New Technologies” in Okigbo, Charles and Eribo, Festus eds.
Development and Communication in Africa. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003).
 
“Introduction” in in Okigbo, Charles and Eribo, Festus eds. Development and Communication in Africa. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003).
 
"The Dynamics of the Internet in Nigeria" With Kelly Fudge Albada  In Robins, Melinda B. and Robert L Hilliard eds. Beyond Boundaries: Cyberspace and Africa, Heinemann (2002).
 
“Beyond Cameroon: Model Content Analysis from East and West Africa” With Charles Okigbo, Mary N. Kizito, and Christine Kyayonka. In Eribo, Festus and Tanjong, Enoh, eds. Journalism and Mass Communication in Africa: Cameroon., eds. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, 2002).
 
“Introduction” In Eribo, Festus and Tanjong, Enoh, eds. Journalism and Mass Communication in Africa: Cameroon., eds. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, 2002).
 
“Introduction.” With Jong-Ebot. In Festus Eribo and William Jong-Ebot, eds. Press Freedom and Communication in Africa. (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1997).
 
“Internal and External Factors Affecting Press Freedom in Nigeria.” In Festus Eribo and William Jong-Ebot, eds. Press Freedom and Communication in Africa. (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1997).
 
“The Elusive Press Freedom in Angola.” In Festus Eribo and William Jong-Ebot, eds. Press Freedom and Communication in Africa. (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1997).
 
“Africa: Socio-economic and Media Database.” In Festus Eribo and William Jong-Ebot, eds. Press Freedom and Communication in Africa. (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1997).
 
“Russian Press and Africa: Regionalization and Prioritization of Coverage.” In Eribo, Festus, Oyeleye Oyediran, Mulatu Wubneh, and Leo Zonn, eds. . (Greenville, NC: Center For International Programs, East Carolina University, 1993).
         
Contribution to Encyclopedia

“French Speaking Central Africa, Status of the media,” Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications, San Diego, Calif: Academic Press (2003). Vol. 2, pp. 203-207.
 
Book Reviews

For Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 79, No. 4: 1017-1018 (2002): Charles Quist-Adade, In the Shadows of the Kremlin and the White House (Lanham, MD: University Press of America).
 
For Howard Journal of Communications, 8(2): 217-218 (1997): Clement Asante, The Press in Ghana: Problems and Prospects (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1996).
 
For International Journal of Public Opinion Research Vol. 8, No. 1.(Spring 1996): Nikolai Popov, The Russian People Speak: Democracy at a crossroads (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University, 1995).

Courses taught:
International News Communication
International Public Relations
International Communication and Foreign Press
International Electronic Mass Media Systems
Mass Media and Society
Seminar: Theory of Mass Comm and Social Systems
Seminar: Mass Media Ethics
Advanced Reporting
Media Writing
Basic Reporting
Directed Readings
Introduction to Mass Communication

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