Research Areas

Trauma and memory studies, holocaust and genocide studies, childhood studies, child soldier narratives, African life writing and social media technologies.,

Profile

Nick Mdika Tembo is an author, human rights advocate and professor of English in the Department of Literary Studies at the University of Malawi. He is also a Research Fellow in the Department of English at University of the Free State, South Africa. The primary focus of his research is in trauma and memory studies and his thematic fields include holocaust and genocide studies, childhood studies, child soldier narratives, African life writing, and social media technologies. He has extensively published in these research fields.

Publications

• Journal Article
  Women, Political Violence and the Production of Fear in Malawian Social Media Texts (2024)
  

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• Book Chapters
  Framing Eastern African Precarious Mobilities: Two Women’s War Narratives (2024)
  

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• Book Chapters
  COVID-19 and Anxiety Constructions in African Poetry (2024)
  

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• Book Chapters
  Memoricide, Negationism and Representation: Centring Rwanda’s ‘Double Genocide’ Discourse in the Present Tense (2024)
  

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• Journal Article
  Politics of Memorialisation in a Rwandan Witness Memoir: Marie Béatrice Umutesi’s Surviving the Slaughter (2022)
  

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• Journal Article
  Confronting Apartheid’s Revenants: Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime and/as Traumedy (2022)
  

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• Journal Article
  Space, Time and Graphic Wit(h)nessing: Rupert Bazambanza’s Smile through the Tears (2022)
  

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• Journal Article
  Anxious Competition: Exploring the Poetic Imaginarium of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic in Malawi (2022)
  

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• Journal Article
  National Identity and Xenophobia in Kopano Matlwa’s Period Pain (2021)
  

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• Journal Article
  Perceiving Precarity and Extremism in Nuruddin Farah’s North of Dawn (2020)
  

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