| Dr. Mukasa was for four years
a senior journalist and news editor of The Chronicle, a daily newspaper
in Zimbabwe. He also covered the war between government troops and rebels
in western Zimbabwe. During his post doctoral program at Ohio State University,
Dr. Mukasa conducted a survey research on the role of the new information
and communication technologies (ICTs) in the productive capacities of low-income
farmers in eastern and southern Ohio. He co-authored with Professor Lee
Becker of Ohio State University a research report on Africa's information
and communication education resources and needs.
Prior to joining IUP, Dr. Mukasa was visiting
assistant professor of communications at Bethany College, West Virginia.
He has presented papers at seminars and conferences in Africa, Canada and
the United States and has published a number of articles on international
communications as well as the social implications of information and communication
technologies. In summer of 1992 he was one of 35 professors selected to
attend a seminar on C-SPAN in the classroom held in Washington, D.C. Dr.
Mukasa developed for the World Bank a policy paper on an information strategy
for promoting environmentally sustainable development in sub Sahara Africa.
He is a founder member of the Southern African
Development, Culture and Communication Network (SADECCON) a consortium
of academics and researchers on information and communication technologies
and the Internet and their implications to southern Africa.
He teaches Research Methods in Journalism; World
News Coverage; Journalism and Mass Media; Writing for the Print Media;
Journalistic Writing; News Reporting; Community Journalism, Editing; Issues
and Problems; Public Opinion and the News Media and History of the American
Press.
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