Unwana Akpan

Unwana Samuel Akpan lectures at the Department of Mass Communication, University of Lagos, Akoka, Nigeria. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Visiting Scholar in The School of Communications and Media Studies, Department of Communication, Culture and Media Studies, Howard University, Washington DC, USA. Unwana also taught at the Programmes Production Department, National Broadcast Academy, Ikeja, Lagos. Unwana Samuel does research in Communication and Media. In his entire career, Dr. Unwana has been committed to examining, understanding, disrupting and disseminating ideas on how communication and culture intersect. With innovative research initiatives and decades of industry experience, his research and teaching investigate and explore Broadcast Content, Sports and Communication, African Communication Systems, Media Literacy, Corporate Speech writing, Media Aesthetic, the intersections of popular culture and media studies, particularly as they address genre transformation, popular media, and theories of realism and spectacle.