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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 scholarship examines how trauma is narrated, mediated, and remembered in contemporary African societies, with particular attention to life writing and testimonial narratives, and the ethical implications of digital media. His research also extends to environmental humanities, focusing on ecological crisis through narrative and mediated forms alongside ethnographic approaches to environmental experience and knowledge production in African contexts. 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 working paper In the Aftermath of a National Tragedy: Excavating Memories of Cyclone Freddy in Malawi (Nordic Africa Institute, 2025). Tembo has held research and visiting fellowships at the University of the Free State, Rhodes University, and the Department of Peace and Conflict Research/ Nordic Africa Institute in Sweden.

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