Research Methods for African Scholarship
This book spotlights and demystifies under-researched elements of research design to support successful research initiatives undertaken by students in African universities.
This volume marks a significant and important departure from research design books rooted in European and American socio-cultural context and places emphasis on contextual realities in Africa. Attending to socio-cultural oral and written methods of eliciting data from participants, contextual sampling techniques, oral and third-party open ended survey instrumentation, and multi-pronged data analysis schemes that emphasize ontological, epistemological, and axiological findings, these chapters constitute a novel and much-needed focus on realities and examples from the continent of Africa. Written by African scholars, the book will appeal to post-graduate students and early-career scholars and researchers with interests in research methods across the social sciences.  Black Communication in the Age of Disinformation
Miscommunication creates distrusts in Black communication sphere. Social Media deepfakes on Black communication can be dire. Safety nets are needed within Black digital media public sphere.
Paradise of Love and Pain
This book explores the life of Ellen Peng straddles two inescapable complexities in her young life and family – her status as the first born and role model for her younger siblings and her very complicated relationship with her mother Lydia, who’s chosen to jeopardize her own future and that of her entire family.
Black Lives and Digi-Culturalism: An Afrocentric Perspective
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.
This book examines the global impact of social media in the formation of various identities and cultures.
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Black Communication Theory Volume 2
This second volume of Black Communication Theory extends the Black communication sphere to include digital as well as non-digital modes of communication for the Black community on the continent of Africa and the Diaspora. The authors of this edition have been able to build on from the conceptualizations enshrined within the first volume and expanded it to include other Black communication contexts be they on gender, race, ethnicity, or class. Continuing the journey of populating the Black communication public and private sphere on the cyberspace as well as non-cyberspaces, this volume will provide an invaluable resource to students and researchers of Afrocentric communication theories. This is the moment for those examining Black communication related phenomena to harvest theories conceived and presented by Communication scholars actively engaged with pedagogy within the university system the world over.
 Decolonizing Communication Studies
This volume examines the effects of the decolonization of communication studies. It shows that the discipline has undergone a rapid paradigm shift since the launching of the Ferment in the Field special edition of the Journal of Communication, in which scholars were called upon to rethink the field because of the crisis it was facing.
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.
Social Media: Culture and Identity
Social Media: Culture and Identity examines the global impact of social media in the formation of various identities and cultures. New media scholars— both national and international— have posited thought-provoking analyses of sociocultural issues about human communication that are impacted by the omnipresence of social media. This collection examines issues of gender, class, and race inequities along with social media’s connections to women’s health, cyberbullying, sexting, and transgender issues both in the United States and in some developing countries.
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Black 'Race' And The White Supremacy Saga
This book examines the conundrum that has haunted the Black and White ancestry for ages on what supremacy actually means. Is it Black or White supremacy? Granted, the term White supremacy has occupied the sociopolitical, cultural and economic discourse for ages, but what does that really imply? All other ancestries on planet earth have been coerced to believe that conformity to Euro-American lifestyle is the way to become ‘civilized’ on planet earth. But the term civilization owes its genesis to the African cultural and educational achievements in Egypt. Consequently, Black ancestry, the first human specie on planet earth, should lead mankind to cultural and epistemological supremacy but that has always been met with skepticism. This book examines this debate, especially between the Black and the White ancestry.  Digital Communications at Crossroads in Africa: A Decolonial Approach
This book uses several lenses to examine the role of African Americans and Afr
icans in the production and consumption of information in digital spaces. 
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.
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All Publications
Peer Reviewed Articles
Naluwooza, R., Ayeni, F., Langmia, K. & Mbarika, V. ( 2023). Fostering learning outcomes in a non-reading culture at foundational level of education: The role of information technology and pupil engagement. International Journal of Educational Management
Langmia, K. (2023). Digital exclusivity by inclusivity: Blacks and ‘the’ digicultural paradox of Afrofuturism. National Council for Black Studies: https://issuu.com/ncbsonline/docs/ncbs_annual_report_final_2023_2_/22
Ssekakubo, J., Mbarika, V.W., Isoh, A., Langmia, K., Lwanga, F., Kituyi, M.G. ( 2022). Self-efficacy and Performance of Academic staff in Ugandan Public Universities: Does Job Satisfaction Matter? ORSEA Journal, vol. 11 (2) 76-84.
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.
Nyeko, S., Niwe, M., Langmia, K., & Mayoka, G. K. (2020). Organization Culture: Mediator of Information Technology (IT) Competence and IT Governance Effectiveness. International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET), 7(9), 3683-3692.
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 Sub-Saharan Africa. Information system Front Journal, DOI 10.10007/s10796-0179739-1
Langmia, K. ( 2016). Social Media and teleco-presence theory of identity. Journal of Social Media in Society, 5(1), 265-290.
Langmia, K & Haddad, A. (2015). Socio-cultural and rhetorical traditions of communication within African/Black thinking. International Communication Gazette, 77 (5). 471-486.
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.
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.
Langmia, K. & Glass, A. (2014 ). Coping with Smartphones in the college classroom Teaching Journalism and Mass Communication, 4(1), 13-23.
Langmia, K. ( 2011). The secret weapon of globalization: China’s activities in sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Third World Studies, 28 (2), pp. 41-53.
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.
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.
Langmia, K. (2023). Digital exclusivity by inclusivity: Blacks and ‘the’ digicultural paradox of Afrofuturism. National Council for Black Studies: https://issuu.com/ncbsonline/docs/ncbs_annual_report_final_2023_2_/22
Ssekakubo, J., Mbarika, V.W., Isoh, A., Langmia, K., Lwanga, F., Kituyi, M.G. ( 2022). Self-efficacy and Performance of Academic staff in Ugandan Public Universities: Does Job Satisfaction Matter? ORSEA Journal, vol. 11 (2) 76-84.
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.
Nyeko, S., Niwe, M., Langmia, K., & Mayoka, G. K. (2020). Organization Culture: Mediator of Information Technology (IT) Competence and IT Governance Effectiveness. International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET), 7(9), 3683-3692.
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 Sub-Saharan Africa. Information system Front Journal, DOI 10.10007/s10796-0179739-1
Langmia, K. ( 2016). Social Media and teleco-presence theory of identity. Journal of Social Media in Society, 5(1), 265-290.
Langmia, K & Haddad, A. (2015). Socio-cultural and rhetorical traditions of communication within African/Black thinking. International Communication Gazette, 77 (5). 471-486.
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.
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.
Langmia, K. & Glass, A. (2014 ). Coping with Smartphones in the college classroom Teaching Journalism and Mass Communication, 4(1), 13-23.
Langmia, K. ( 2011). The secret weapon of globalization: China’s activities in sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Third World Studies, 28 (2), pp. 41-53.
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.
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
Langmia, K., Onwumechili, C., Ayiro, L., & Lando, A.L. (2025). Research Methods for African Scholarship: Applying Qualitative and Quantitative Socio-cultural Methods in African Countries. Routledge.
Langmia, K. (2018). Black/African Communication Theory Volume 2 ( Ed.), New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan Publishers.
Langmia, K. ( 2024). Black ‘race’ and the Supremacy saga. Anthem Press.
Langmia, K. ( 2023). Black communication in the age of deepfakes and synthetic media. Palgrave, Macmillan publishers.
Langmia, K. ( 2022). Decolonization of communication studies. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars publishing.
Langmia, K. (2021). Black Lives and digi-culturalism: An Afrocentric perspective. Lanham, MD: Lexington Press
Langmia, K. ( 2021). Paradise of love and pain. Denver, CO: Spears Media Press
Langmia, K. & Lando, A. ( 2020). Digital Communication at Crossroads in Africa: A decolonial perspective. Palgrave, Macmillan Publishers.
Langmia, K. (2018). Black/African Communication Theory ( Ed.), New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan Publishers.
Langmia, K. and Tia, T (2017). Social Media, Culture and Identity. Lexington Books.
Langmia, K. ( 2017). Globalization and Cyberculture: An African neo-colonial perspective, Palgrave, Macmillan, UK
Langmia, K., O’Brien, P., Tyree, T & Sturgis, I. ( 2014). Social Media: Pedagogy and Practice. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield
Nwokeafor, C. & Langmia, K. (2014). Media’s role in the changing electoral process: A political communication. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield
Fokwang, J. & Langmia, K. (2011). Society and Change in Bali Nyonga. Langaa, RPCI
Nwokeafor & Langmia (2010): Media and technology in emerging African democracies. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield
Langmia, K. ( 2010) The Earth Mother. Langaa, RPCIG
Langmia, K. (2009). An evil meal of evil., Langaa, RPCIG
Langmia, K & O’Brien, P: (2008). Minorities and video production. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishers
Langmia, K. (2008). Titabet and the Takumbeng, MI: Michigan State University Press.
Langmia, K. (2007). The Internet and the construction of the immigrant public sphere: the case of the Cameroonian Diaspora. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield
Langmia, K. (2018). Black/African Communication Theory Volume 2 ( Ed.), New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan Publishers.
Langmia, K. ( 2024). Black ‘race’ and the Supremacy saga. Anthem Press.
Langmia, K. ( 2023). Black communication in the age of deepfakes and synthetic media. Palgrave, Macmillan publishers.
Langmia, K. ( 2022). Decolonization of communication studies. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars publishing.
Langmia, K. (2021). Black Lives and digi-culturalism: An Afrocentric perspective. Lanham, MD: Lexington Press
Langmia, K. ( 2021). Paradise of love and pain. Denver, CO: Spears Media Press
Langmia, K. & Lando, A. ( 2020). Digital Communication at Crossroads in Africa: A decolonial perspective. Palgrave, Macmillan Publishers.
Langmia, K. (2018). Black/African Communication Theory ( Ed.), New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan Publishers.
Langmia, K. and Tia, T (2017). Social Media, Culture and Identity. Lexington Books.
Langmia, K. ( 2017). Globalization and Cyberculture: An African neo-colonial perspective, Palgrave, Macmillan, UK
Langmia, K., O’Brien, P., Tyree, T & Sturgis, I. ( 2014). Social Media: Pedagogy and Practice. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield
Nwokeafor, C. & Langmia, K. (2014). Media’s role in the changing electoral process: A political communication. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield
Fokwang, J. & Langmia, K. (2011). Society and Change in Bali Nyonga. Langaa, RPCI
Nwokeafor & Langmia (2010): Media and technology in emerging African democracies. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield
Langmia, K. ( 2010) The Earth Mother. Langaa, RPCIG
Langmia, K. (2009). An evil meal of evil., Langaa, RPCIG
Langmia, K & O’Brien, P: (2008). Minorities and video production. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishers
Langmia, K. (2008). Titabet and the Takumbeng, MI: Michigan State University Press.
Langmia, K. (2007). The Internet and the construction of the immigrant public sphere: the case of the Cameroonian Diaspora. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield
Book Chapters
1) Langmia, K. & Sani, M.H. ( 2023). Decolonizing the African mind in the digital space. In U.S. Akpan ( Ed). African media space and globalization. Switzerland, Palgrave McMillan, 343-354.
2)Langmia, K. ( 2021). To be or not to be: decolonizing African media/communications. In W. Mano & V.C. Milton ( Eds.) Routledge Handbook of African media communication studies. Routledge.
3) Lewis, A., Amulega, S & Langmia, K. ( 2021). “Arab Spring” or Arab winter: Social media and the 21st Century slave trade in Lybia. In W. Mano & V.C. Milton ( Eds.) Routledge Handbook of African media communication studies. Routledge.
4) 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
5) Langmia, K. ( 2020). Engeli yokulya oluwombo[1]: Social Media and the Transformation of African and Black Diasporic Forms of Communication. In K. Setiloane & A. Bangura ( Eds.) African & globalization: Novel multi-disciplinary perspective. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave, Macmillan publishers, 53-72.
6) 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.
7) 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.
8) 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.
9) 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
10) 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
11) 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.
12) Langmia, K. ( 2016). Debunking the myth of dependency: HBCUs and the challenges of ‘Education’. In C. Prince and R. Ford ( Eds.) IGI Global Publications
13) 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.
14) 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.
15) 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.
16) 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.
17) 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
18) 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
19) 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.
20) 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
21) 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
[1] **This in Luganda means how to eat “Luwombo”, a special traditional soup of the Burganda ethnic group in Uganda. It is metaphorized here as how to welcome social media in Africa.
GRANTS AWARDED/ HONORS
U.S Department 2nd Fulbright Specialist Award, 2024 Faculty engages the Department of Education in Kosovo on social media leadership training and education.
Center for African Studies Academic Faculty Enhancement and Enrichment grant Award, 2023 Faculty engages in social media security training as a visiting professor to some universities in East Africa.
Center for African Studies Academic Faculty Enhancement and Enrichment grant award, 2022 Faculty engages in social media security training as a visiting professor to some universities in East Africa
Orlando L. Taylor, 2020 NCA Distinguished scholarship Award for leadership in publishing in African as well as African American Communications..
Toyin Falola Africa Book Award, 2017 by the Association of Global South Studies for my book Globalization and Cyberculture: An Afrocentric Perspective held at Marrakesh, Morocco.
ICA Africa Research and Publication Training Workshop Award held on October 24-26, 2017 in Entebbe, Uganda
33rd Annual Maryland Communication Keynote speaker Award in recognition of my Speech titled “Communication in the Digital Age” on October 14, 2017 at the College of Southern Maryland.
2017 African Chamber of Commerce ( ACC) President of the Education and Communication Commission
Certificate of Appreciation Award in recognition of my contribution as faculty coach at the Junior Faculty Writing and Creative Works Summer Academy, 2016
Certificate of Recognition Award at the Social Media Technology Conference, Oct. 2016
Fulbright Grant Award, to teach and mentor Masters and Ph.D. Students of the University of Buea, Cameroon. Summer 2015.
Faculty Exemplar, Board of Trustees at Howard University, April 2015
Howard University HU-Teach Reviewer appointment to review HU-Teach II candidates applying to teach online classes. December 4, 2014.
Howard University Teach ( HU-Teach) award for designing a hybrid 60% online course, May, 2014