j. Siguru Wahutu is an Assistant Professor of Sociology & African Studies at Yale University and a Fellow at the MacMillan Center of International and Area Studies at Yale as well as the Center for the Study of African Societies and Economies at Harvard University.
His research interests include the effects of ethnicity and culture on media representations of human rights violations, global and transnational news flows, postcolonial land claims, and the political economy of international media, with a regional emphasis on postcolonial Africa. His book, In the Shadow of the Global North: Journalism in Postcolonial Africa, offers an extensive account of media coverage of Darfur by various African states. When not studying media and genocide, he works on data privacy issues and media manipulation in African countries. This secondary research stream is the subject of his second book project, titled Silicon Colonists: 21st century scramble for Africa.
