Prinola Govenden

Dr Prinola Govenden has worked in various capacities most recently as a Teaching Fellow for Wits Media Studies, Visiting Scholar at University of Oslo, Researcher at the Press Freedom Commission. Her PhD (Media Studies) from Wits University is recognised by the Golden Key International Honours society as ranking in the Top 15% of academic achievers globally. Her research focuses on the post-apartheid media within the themes of: transformation; decolonising blackness representation; racism in the modern media; neo-liberal class inequalities; decolonising Media Studies theory. She is currently working on a book manuscript about Power, Race & Class in the post-apartheid print media with HSRC Press.