Nick Tembo

Nick Mdika Tembo is Professor of English in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Malawi. His scholarship examines how trauma is narrated, mediated, and remembered in contemporary African contexts, with particular attention to life writing, child soldier testimony, and the ethical implications of digital media cultures. He is the editor of Trauma in the Age of Social Media in Sub-Saharan Africa: Narrative and Representation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) and the author of a working paper In the Aftermath of a National Tragedy: Excavating Memories of Cyclone Freddy in Malawi (Nordic Africa Institute, 2025), which analyses the formation of collective memory after environmental catastrophe. Tembo has held research and visiting fellowships at the University of the Free State, Rhodes University, and the Department of Peace and Conflict Research/ Nordic Africa Institute in Sweden.