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Mrs. Mtende Wezi Nthara-Galafa

LECTURER
Media and Communication

Research Areas

Academic literacy, Interdisciplinary communication, Intercultural communication, Language and culture, Critical Discourse Analysis, Media discourse, Referential strategies, Second language learning,

Publications

  • Book Chapters
    Galafa, B., Nthara, M.W., & Masina, Y. (2025). A Decade of Renewed French Drama Festivals in Malawi: Theatre for Literacy and Skills Development. In Z. Chisiza (Ed.). Theatre and Media for Social Change in Malawi (1st ed.). Routledge. (2025)
    https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003648437-3
  • Book Chapters
    Nthara, M. W. (2025). Ideology and National Identity Construction: Historical Perspectives on Language Policy in Malawi. In G. W. Kayira, K. R. Ross, & M. H. Yokoniah-Mvula (Eds.), Malawi at Sixty: A Political and Economic Analysis (pp. 418ā€“441). Mzuni Press. (2025)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.37730327.20
  • Journal Article
    Galafa, B., Nthara, M.W., & Mulingo, M.D. (2024). Academic writing for French language programs: undergraduate students in Malawi as a case study. Journal of Languages and Translation, 4(1), 1-23. (2024)
    https://journals.univ-chlef.dz/index.php/jlt/article/view/574
  • Journal Article
    Nthara, M. W. (2024). Theme-Rheme analysis and ideological representations in Malawian and Zambian online news reporting of Academic Freedom sagas, in Y. Ndasauka and G. Kamchezera (Eds.). Academic Freedom in Africa: The Struggle Rages on". Routledge. (2024)
    https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003516248-6
  • Journal Article
    Nthara, M.W. & Galafa, B. (2022). A biographical reading of David Rubadiriā€™s An African Thunderstorm and other Poems" LWATI: A Journal of Contemporary Research 19 (3), 152-170. (2022)
    https://www.ajol.info/index.php/lwati/article/view/232803
  • Book Chapters
    Nthara, M. W. & Galafa, B. (2020). Erasure of Traditional Medicine in Malawiā€™s Healthcare Discourse through Language Use. In H. Zriba (Ed.), Postmodernism and Narratives of Erasure in Culture, Literature, and Language, 47-70. (2020)
    https://www.academicapress.com/node/448
  • Journal Article
    Galafa, B., Mulingo, M.D., & Nthara, M.W. (2019). A Review of the Oxford Chichewa-English/English-Chichewa Dictionary by Steven Paas. International Journal of Translation, Interpretation, and Applied Linguistics (IJTIAL), 1(1), 66-77. (2019)
    https://doi.org/10.4018/IJTIAL.2019010106