Featured Publications 

Social Media: Culture and Identity

This book examines the global impact of social media in the formation of various identities and cultures. You can get the book here.

Black/Africana Communication Theory​

This book assembles skilled communicologists who propose uniquely Black-driven theories that stand the test of time. Throughout the volume’s fifteen chapters theories including but not limited to Afrocentricity, Afro-Cultural Mulatto, Venerative Speech Theory, Africana Symbolic Contextualism Theory, HaramBuntu-Government-Diaspora Communications Theory, Consciencist Communication Theory and Racial Democracy Effect Theory are introduced and discussed. Get it here.

Globalization and Cyberculture An Afrocentric Perspective​

The first book to thoroughly engage with the broad impacts of Western cyberculture and its neo-colonial impacts on Africa. It connects traditional forms of communication in Africa with the contemporary digitization of communication alongside other colonial, postcolonial, and neo-colonial movements. It also addresses a wide variety of experiences and spaces that have been reformed by cyberculture and digital communication. Get it here. 

Digital Communications at Crossroads in Africa: A Decolonial Approach

Digital communication as it is practiced in Africa today is at a crossroad. Contributing authors explore how western digital communication systems have proliferated in the African communication landscape, and argue that rich and long-cherished African forms of communal, in-person communication have been increasingly abandoned in favor of assimilation to western digital norms. 

All Publications 

Peer Reviewed Articles

  1. Hammond, C. & Langmia. K. ( 2020). Online Dating and Females in the Academia: Is it an Issue for Commendation, Condemnation or Ambivalence? Research Journal of Mass Communication and Information Technology, 6(2), 22-39. 
  2. Sabi, H.M., Uzoka, E. F., Langmia, K., Njeh, F. N., Tsuma, K.C. ( 2017). A cross country model of contextual factors impacting cloud computing adoption at universities in SubSaharan Africa. Information system Front Journal, DOI 10.10007/s10796-0179739-1 3)
  3. Langmia, K. ( 2016). Social Media and teleco-presence theory of identity. Journal of Social Media in Society, 5(1), 265-290 4)
  4. Langmia, K & Haddad, A. (2015). Socio-cultural and rhetorical traditions of communication within African/Black thinking. International Communication Gazette, 77 (5). 471-486 
  5. Langmia, K. (2015). Debunking the truth through a video documentary: A case study of Henry Louis Gates’ “Wonders of the African World’’, Journal of Third World Studies, 31 (2), 83-99 
  6. Mlay, S., Sabi, H., Tsuma, C. & Langmia, K. (2015). Uncovering Reading Habits of University Students in Uganda: Does ICT Matter? International Journal of Education and Development Using ICT, Volume 11 (2), 38-50 
  7. Langmia, K. & Glass, A. (2014 ). Coping with Smartphones in the college classroom Teaching Journalism and Mass Communication, 4(1), 13-23.
  8.  Langmia, K. ( 2011). The secret weapon of globalization: China’s activities in subSaharan Africa. Journal of Third World Studies, 28 (2), pp. 41-53.
  9. Langmia, K. & Durham, E. (2007). Bridging the gap: African and African American communication. Journal of Black Studies, July 2007, Vol. 37, no. 6, pp. 805-826.
  10. Langmia, K. (2006). The role of ICTs in the economic development of Africa: the case of South Africa. International Journal of Education and Development-Using ICTs. Vol, 2, no. 4. pp.144-156

Books

  1. Langmia, K. (2021). Black lives and digi-culturalism: an Afrocentric perspective. Lexington Books. 
  2. Langmia, K. & Lando, A. ( 2020). Digital Communication at Crossroads in Africa: A decolonial perspective. Palgrave, Macmillan Publishers.
  3. Langmia, K. (2018). Black/African Communication Theory ( Ed.), New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan Publishers.
  4. Langmia, K. and Tia, T (2017). Social Media, Culture and Identity. Lexington Books,
  5. Langmia, K. ( 2017). Globalization and Cyberculture: An African neo-colonial perspective, Palgrave, Macmillan, UK
  6. Langmia, K., O’Brien, P., Tyree, T & Sturgis, I. ( 2014). Social Media: Pedagogy and Practice. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield
  7. Nwokeafor, C. & Langmia, K. (2014). Media’s role in the changing electoral process: A political communication. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield
  8. Fokwang, J & Langmia, K. (2011). Society and Change in Bali Nyonga. Langaa, RPCI
  9. Nwokeafor & Langmia (2010): Media and technology in emerging African democracies. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield
  10. Langmia, K. ( 2010) The Earth Mother. Langaa, RPCIG
  11. Langmia, K. (2009). An evil meal of evil., Langaa, RPCIG
  12. Langmia, K & O’Brien, P: (2008). Minorities and video production. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishers
  13. Langmia, K. (2008). Titabet and the Takumbeng, MI: Michigan State University Press.
  14. Langmia, K. (2007). The Internet and the construction of the immigrant public sphere: the case of the Cameroonian Diaspora. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield

Book Chapter

  1. Langmia, K. ( 2020). Pax-Africana versus western digi-culturalism: An ethnomethodological study of selected mobile African App. In K. Langmia & A. Lando ( Eds.) Digital Communication at Crossroads in Africa: A decolonial perspective. Cham, Switzerland. Palgrave, Macmillan Publishers
  2. Langmia, K. ( In Press 2020). Engeli yokulya oluwombo1: Social Media and the Transformation of African and Black Diasporic Forms of Communication. In K. Setiloane & A. Bangura ( Eds.) African & globalization: Nouvel multi-disciplinary perspective. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave, Macmillan publishers.
  3. Langmia, K. (2019). Confronting the lion with bare hands: Social media and the Anglophone Cameroonian protest. In E. Ngwainmbi (Ed.) Media in the global context. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 127-142.
  4. Langmia, K. (2018). Good development, ICTs and cultural identity in sub-Saharan Africa. In M. Masaeli, S. Yaya & R. Sneller ( Eds.) African perspective on global development. UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 
  5. Langmia, K. (2018). The role of social media in the socio-economic development of Africa. In M.R. Goyal & E. Eilu ( Eds.) Digital media and wireless communication in developing nations. Waretown, NJ: Apple Academic Press.
  6. Langmia, K & Hammond, C. ( 2018). ICT and development: narrowing the digital divide and the knowledge gap of ICT users in Cameroon and Ghana. In M. Ragnedda & B. Mutsvairo ( Eds.) Digital inclusion: An international comparative analysis. Lanham, MD: Lexington Press, 169-186
  7. Langmia, K. ( 2017). Social media and politics in Burkina Faso. In C. Nwokeafor ( Ed.) Technology integration and transformation of elections in Africa, Lanham, MD: Hamilton Books
  8. Langmia, K. (2017). Tribute to a gigantic scholar. In S. Adem, J. Adibe, A.K. Bangura and A.S. Bemath ( Eds.) A Giant Tree has fallen: Tributes to Ali Alamin Mazrui. South Africa: African Publishing Perspectives, 87-88.
  9. Langmia, K. ( 2016). Debunking the myth of dependency: HBCUs and the challenges of ‘Education’. In C. Prince and R. Ford ( Eds.) IGI Global Publications
  10. Langmia, K. (2014). Cock Crow in the “ Electronic Republic”: Social media and the Kenya’s 2013 Presidential elections. In K. Langmia et.al. (Eds.) Social media: pedagogy and practice. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 229-244.
  11. Langmia, K. & Mpande, S. (2014). Social media and critical pedagogy. In K. Langmia et.al. (Eds.) Social media: pedagogy and practice. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 56-73.
  12. Langmia, K. ( 2013). Social Media and Elections in Cameroon. In C. Nwokeafor & K. Langmia ( Eds.) Political Communication and Democracy in Africa. Lanham, MD: pp. 122-131.
  13. Langmia, K. ( 2013). Moving the signpost in Cameroon? Resolving inter-village rivalry through a form of communication. In C. Onwumechili & I. Ndolo ( Eds.) Re-imagining development communication in Africa, The Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, pp. 171-181.
  14. Langmia, K. ( 2012). Traditional cultures and their effects on globalization: An African Perspective. In A. Kirk & S. Olaniran ( Eds). Globalization and Digital Divide, Cambria Press, pp. 23-39
  15. Langmia, K. (2011). Afrocentricity and African communication theory. In R. Mbayo (Ed.) Political culture, cultural universals, and the crisis of identity in Africa. Edwin Mellen Press, pp. 53-66
  16. Langmia, K. ( 2011). Telecommunications media convergence and regulatory platypus in Cameroon and Nigeria. In L. Olumide, W. L-Chang, A. Osofisan, S. Chiemeka, & R. Boateng ( Eds.), International Conference on ICT for Africa Proceedings. Letters and Script Publishers, pp. 63-72.
  17. Langmia, K (2010) The Role of On-line media technology and democratic discourse in Cameroon. In C. Nwokeafor & K. Langmia ( Eds.) Media and technology in emerging African countries: Rowman & Littlefield . pp. 62-83
  18. Langmia, K. et al. ( 2009). Traditional communication methods as means of resolving conflict in Africa. In R. Mbayo, C. Onwumechili & B. Musa ( Eds.), Communication in an era of global conflicts (pp. 185-202). Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield

Contact Dr. Langmia

email
klangmia@gmail.com
klangmia@howard.edu