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

“Quality Human Performance and Self Regulation Among Students in Higher Education.” With Steve Duncan, William Swart, and Cathy Hall. 2008

“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).

Journal Editorship

Guest Editor, Journal of Global Mass Communication. With Denis Wu., Vol. 1. Nos 1&2 Winter 2008

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 African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society, 108, No. 431: 324-325 (2009) Maxim Matusevich, Africa in Russia, Russia in Africa: Three Centuries of Encounters (Trenton, NJ and Asmara: Africa World Press).

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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