Research Areas

Trauma and memory studies, genocide studies, childhood studies, child soldier narratives, African life writing, digital media,

Profile

Nick Mdika Tembo is a Professor of English in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Malawi. He is the editor of Trauma in the Age of Social Media in Sub Saharan Africa: Narrative and Representation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) and co-editor of Beyond the Call of Duty and Other Stories (Bookland International, 2011). Tembo’s research is situated at the intersection of trauma and memory studies, with a particular emphasis on African life writing, genocide studies, childhood studies, child-soldier narratives, and the cultural and epistemological implications of digital media.

Publications

• Journal Article
  Women, Political Violence and the Production of Fear in Malawian Social Media Texts (2025)
  

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• Journal Article
  Confronting Apartheid’s Revenants: Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime and/as Traumedy (2025)
  

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• Journal Article
  Representations of ‘Economic Hit Men’ in Selected Malawian Poetry (2025)
  

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• Book
  Trauma in the Age of Social Media in Sub Saharan Africa: Narrative and Representation (2025)
  

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• Journal Article
  Girls at War, Girls in War: Three Female African Child Soldier Narratives (2024)
  

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