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Prof. Nick Mdika Tembo

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Literary Studies

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Trauma and memory studies, life writing, digital media ethics,

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Nick Mdika Tembo is Professor of English at the University of Malawi. His research explores the narration, mediation, and remembrance of trauma in contemporary African societies, with particular attention to life writing, testimonial narratives, and digital media ethics. He also works in the environmental humanities, investigating ecological crises and environmental knowledge in Africa through narrative, media, and ethnography. He edited Trauma in the Age of Social Media in Sub-Saharan Africa: Narrative and Representation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) and authored In the Aftermath of a National Tragedy: Excavating Memories of Cyclone Freddy in Malawi (Nordic Africa Institute, 2025), a working paper. He has held research and visiting fellowships at the University of the Free State, Rhodes University, the Department of Peace and Conflict Research, and the Nordic Africa Institute in Sweden.

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