Research Areas

Trauma and memory studies, child soldier testimony, life writing, digital media cultures,

Profile

Nick Mdika Tembo is Professor of English at the University of Malawi’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences. His scholarship examines how trauma is narrated, mediated, and remembered in contemporary African contexts, with particular attention to life writing, child soldier testimony, and the ethical implications of digital media cultures. He is the editor of Trauma in the Age of Social Media in Sub-Saharan Africa: Narrative and Representation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) and the author of the monograph In the Aftermath of a National Tragedy: Excavating Memories of Cyclone Freddy in Malawi (Nordic Africa Institute, 2025), which analyses the formation of collective memory after environmental catastrophe. Tembo has held research and visiting fellowships at the University of the Free State (2019– ), Rhodes University (2017–2018), and the Nordic Africa Institute (2024).

Publications

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

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• Refereed Monograph
  In the Aftermath of a National Tragedy: Excavating Memories of Cyclone Freddy in Malawi (2025)
  

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

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• Textbook Approved By Moe
  Practice Social Studies - Students Book 4 (2016)
  

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• Textbook Approved By Moe
  Practice Social Studies - Students Book 3 (2016)
  

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• Textbook Approved By Moe
  Practice Social Studies - Teacher's Guide Book 4 (2016)
  

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• Textbook Approved By Moe
  Practice Social Studies - Teachers Guide Book 3 (2016)
  

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