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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.
Books
- 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
) 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