AfOx Fellow
2019
Dean of School of Information and Communication Studies
Department of Communication Studies
University of Ghana
Ghana

Research interests

  • Media and democratic governance 
  • Media and gender
  • Media histories
  • Communication and Climate change 
  • Communication and Health

Awards/ Prizes

  • Visiting Scholar, Program of African Studies, Northwestern University, U.S. (September-December 2005)
  • Guest Researcher, Nordic Africa Institute, African Guest Researchers Programme 2012, Research Cluster ‘Conflict, Security and Democratic Transformation’

Prof Audrey Gadzekpo

Research

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the contribution of local broadcasters to ‘information battles’ during the Second World War through the lens of an unpublished manuscript by a pioneer Ghanaian broadcaster.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.

 

AfOx Fellowship

Audrey was an AfOx-ASC Fellow in 2019.

During her 8 week AfOx fellowship in 2019, Audrey was hosted by the African Studies Centre and St Antony's College.

Key publications

  • Gadzekpo, A., 2021. Tuning in to his-story: an account of radio in Ghana through the experience of B.S. Gadzekpo. Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute, 91(2), pp.177-194. DOI:10.1017/S0001972021000012. 
  • Gadzekpo, A., 2011. Glorifying the huntress: writing women into Ghanaian history. In H. Lauer and K. Anyidoho, eds. Reclaiming the Human Sciences and Humanity through African Perspectives, 1, Ghana: Sub-Saharan Press, pp.673-682.
  • Gadzekpo, A., 2008. Missing links: African media studies and feminist concerns. Journal of African Media Studies JAMS, 1(1), pp.69-80. DOI:10.1386/jams.1.1.69_1
  • •    Gadzekpo, A., 2007. Fifty years of the media’s struggle for democracy in Ghana: legacies and encumbrances. Ghana Studies Journal, 10, pp.89-106. DOI: 10.1353/ghs.2007.0003.
  • •    Gadzekpo, A., 2006. Public but private: A transformational reading of the memoir and newspaper writings of Mercy Ffoulkes-Crabbe. In K. Barber, ed. Africa’s Hidden Histories: Everyday Literacy and Making the Self. Bloomington-Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, pp.314-377.