Fredrick Ogenga
- Research field security
- Institution Rongo University, Kenya
- Position director of the Center for Media, Democracy, Peace & Security
- Theme De-radicalization
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Biography
Dr. Ogenga is a Professor of Communication and Media Studies, the Head of the Department of Communication, Journalism and Media Studies, Rongo University, Kenya and the Founding Director, Center for Media, Democracy, Peace & Security (CMDPS). He writes expert commentaries for the Daily Nation and Standard mainstream newspapers in Kenya, has been quoted by leading global news outlets such as the Voice of America (VOA) and participated in a UN policy round table on Media Representations of (in) Security in Africa. He has contributed several peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles on media, elections, conflict, de-radicalization and peacebuilding in Africa in journals such as Journal of African Elections, Africa Conflict and Peace-building Review, Conflict and Communication Online, Media and Democracy Journal, Global Media Journal, Journal of Journalism and Mass Communication, Africa Journal of Democracy and Governance, Congo Afrique, Semiotica – Global Journal of Semiotics among others.
Dr. Ogenga is a beneficiary of the 2014 and 2016 Africa Diaspora Fellowship (ADF), recipient of the 2014 Africa Peacebuilding Network (APN) Research Grant, Carnegie Fund for Conference Attendance and APN’s 2017 East Africa Media Training Workshop Grant. He is also a recipient of the 2016 Southern Voices Network for Peace building Scholarship (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, USA). Ogenga has worked as a Visiting Scholar on Media and Sociology at the Institute for the Advancement of Social Sciences (IASS), Boston University, USA and was appointed a Visiting Researcher at the African Studies Center, Boston University, in 2015. Currently, he has been appointed as a member of the International Panel for Exiting Violence (IPEV).
At Rongo University’s Center for Media, Democracy, Peace and Security, Ogenga is championing a pan-African journalistic institutional approach as a means of preventing violent conflict. The approach is premised on Hybrid Peace Journalism (HPJ) pan-African philosophical and methodological gnosis to media representation of conflict and peacebuilding.in Africa anchored on Utu or Humanity, Umoja or Unity and Harambee or collective belonging.
Publications
- Ogenga, Fredrick. “KBC Needs to Be Transformed into a Robust Public Broadcaster,” April 21, 2013.
- Ogenga, Fredrick. “Our Media,” January 7, 2008.
- Ogenga, Fredrick. “Kwaito: Sexual Semiotics and Representation of Women in the Media,” July 15, 2008.
- Ogenga, Fredrick. “Kwaito: Sexual Semiotics and Representation of Women in the Media,” July 15, 2008.
- Ogenga, Fredrick. “Visual Semiotics and the National Flag: A Kenyan Perspective of Anglo-America’s Globe-Cultural Domination through Mainstream Music Videos.” Semiotica 2014, no. 202 (2014): 533–53.
- Ogenga, Fredrick. “Mugabe Must Go: Textual Meanings of the Representation of the Zimbabwean Situation by the South African Press.” African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review 1, no. 1 (2011): 39–70.
- Ogenga, Fredrick. “The Misrepresentation of the Zimbabwean Crisis by South African Weeklies, 2000-2008.” Thesis, University of the Witwatersrand, 2010.
- Ogenga, Fredrick. “The Media Coverage of the Hague Trials and the Construction of New Ethnic Subjectivities in Kenya.” African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review 3, no. 1 (2013): 158–74.
- Ogenga, Fredrick. “The Role of the Kenyan Media in the 2007 Elections.” Journal of African Elections 7, no. 2 (2008): 124–34.
- Ogenga, Fredrick. “Political Economy of the Kenyan Media - towards a Culture of Active Citizen Journalism.” Global Media Journal African Edition 4, no. 2 (2010): 151–62.
- Ogenga, Fredrick. “Deadly Campus Relationships and Murderous Plots That Exist on Campus.” Eve Women, July 7, 2017, sec. Readers Lounge.
- Ogenga, Fredrick. “Shielding Christians Blow to Radicalisation.” Standard Digital, January 25, 2016.
- Ogenga, Fredrick. “IbizAfrica at Strathmore University on the Verge of Becoming Kenya’s Silicon Savannah.” Standard Digital, March 30, 2017.
- Ogenga, Fredrick. “Kenyan Students Develop App to Curb Insecurity.” Standard Digital, April 20, 2017.
- Ogenga, Fredrick. “Campus Sacco Pioneer Follows in the Footsteps of Equity’s James Mwangi.” Standard Digital, April 6, 2017.
- Ogenga, Fredrick. “Kujenga Amani » The Media and Fresh Presidential Elections in Kenya: Some Emerging Issues,” September 22, 2017.
- Ogenga, Fredrick. “From Al-Qaeda to Al-Shabaab: The Global and Local Implications of Terror in Kenya and East Africa.” Ajdg African Journal of Democracy and Governance 2, no. 3–4 (2015): 159–86.
- Ogenga, Fredrick. “Media in East Africa Must Stop Sensationalizing Jihadi Brides.” Women & Girls, March 17, 2017, sec. News Deeply.
- Ogenga, Fredrick. “Assessing Peace Journalism on Kenya Television Network’s Diaspora Voice in the 2013 Elections.” African Journal of Democracy and Governance 1, no. 2 & 3 (2014): 123–139.
- Ogenga, Fredrick. “Is Peace Journalism Possible in the ‘War’ against Terror in Somalia? How the Kenyan Daily Nation and the Standard Represented Operation Linda Nchi.” Conflict & Communication Online 11, no. 2 (2012): 1–14.
- Ogenga, Fredrick. “Philosophizing Alternative Pan-African Media and Society Approaches to Countering Female Violent Extremism in Kenya for Peace and Security.” Research Paper, no. 15 (2016): 8 p.
- Ogenga, Fredrick. “A Winning Strategy Against Al-Shabaab | Africa Up Close.” Wilson center. Africa up Close (blog), April 12, 2016.
- Ogenga, Fredrick. “Local Media on the Right Direction in the War against Extremism in Kenya | Africa Up Close.” Wilson center. Africa up Close (blog), December 23, 2016.
- Ogenga, Fredrick. “Media Narratives on Female Violent Extremism Open Up a Rich Field of Scholarly Inquiry | Africa Up Close.” Wilson center. Africa up Close (blog), December 27, 2016.
- Ogenga, Fredrick. “Beyond Material Interventions: Rethinking the Role of Gender, Media and the Politics of Female Violent Extremism in Kenya.” Policy Brief, The Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding, no. 9 (2016): 4 p.
- Ogenga, Fredrick. “The Media Coverage of the Hague Trials and the Construction of New Ethnic Subjectivities in Kenya.” African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review 3, no. 1 (2013): 158–74.
- Ogenga, Fredrick. “Embodying Youth Deradicalization in Kenya: Rethinking State Relations, Foreign Policy, and Mediatized Peacebuilding in the Context of the ‘War on Terror’ as a Newfound Democratic Principle.” In Building Peace Through Inclusivity: Strengthening Economic, Social, and Political Inclusion in Africa Report on the 2016 Southern Voices Network Annual Conference Hosted, 96–102. Southern Voices Network: Conference Report. Pretoria, South Africa: Wilson Center, 2016.
- Ogenga, Fredrick. “Kenya’s Long-Term Security Should Be a ‘Discursive Project.’” The social sciences research council. Kujenga Amani (blog), August 22, 2014.
- Ogenga, Fredrick. “Kujenga Amani » ‘Africanizing’ Media Coverage of Threats to Peace and Security on the Continent.” The social sciences research council. Kujenga Amani (blog), October 26, 2016.
- Ogenga, Fredrick, and Enock Ochieng. “How Muslims Can Help Counter Violent Extremism in Kenya | Africa Up Close.” Wilson center. Africa up Close (blog), June 15, 2016.
- Ogenga, Fredrick. “‘If It Bleeds It Shouldn’t Lead’: Reporting in the Age of Terrorism in Africa | Africa Up Close.” Wilson center. Africa up Close (blog), December 18, 2016.
- Ogenga, Fredrick. “OGENGA: Do Not Ignore Women in War on Terrorism.” Daily Nation (Nairobi, Kenya). September 15, 2016.