Mr Peter Chonka

Key information

Roles
Teaching Fellow
Qualifications
BA Politics and Chinese (SOAS, University of London)
MSc State Society and Development (SOAS, University of London)
Building
Russell Square: College Buildings
Office
299a
Email address
pc51@soas.ac.uk
Thesis title
‘Imagining the Somali lands: local news media, a transnational public sphere and the political reconfiguration of Somalia’
Support hours
Wed 9am - 10am and 11am - 12 noon

Biography

My previous degrees were completed at SOAS (BA Chinese and Politics, MSc. State Society and Development).

After graduating, I spent two years in Somaliland/Northern Somalia working in educational development for the University of Hargeisa. Between 2012 and 2015 I was employed as a Somali interpreter for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) working in places of detention across Somalia.

I have recently submitted my PhD thesis on Somali-language news media, conflict and political reconfiguration in Somalia at the University of Edinburgh’s Centre of African Studies (viva pending).

Research interests

News media and discursive ethno-nationalism in the public spheres of Somalia/Somaliland.

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