Dr. Wunpini F. Mohammed, PhD.
Dr. Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed was born and raised in Tamale. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University. She was previously an assistant professor in the College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. She completed a bachelor’s degree at the University of Ghana and a master’s degree at Michigan Technological University. She went on to complete a Ph.D. in Mass Communications with a minor in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies and an African Studies concentration at the Pennsylvania State University.
Her forthcoming book (December 2025), Media, Culture, and Decolonization: Re-righting the Subaltern Histories of Ghana, examines the relationship between culture, language and media.
I am an activist-scholar whose research informs their activist praxes and vice versa.
Projects and Research Work
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Radio
Journalistic griotsin Northern Ghana examined the convergence of indigenous knowledge systems and Dagbanli radio news.
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Film
In studying film, I’ve focused on mapping the colonial roots of film in Ghana and Nigeria.
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Feminisms
The way that Ghanaian feminist organizations solidarized with LGBTQI+ Ghanaians in the face of state-sanctioned violence.
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Feminisms
From Tamale to Paris, Hong Kong to Texas and back to Ouagadougou, this collection of scholarly chapters
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Feminisms
Ways in which feminists use digital platforms for activism
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Recent Publications
Dismantling the Western Canon in Media Studies
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Recent Publications
Intersectionality in African digital organizing: a Ghanaian perspective
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Recent Publications
Intersectionality in African digital organizing: a Ghanaian perspective
Education
Dr. Wunpini F. Mohammed
PhD : Mass Communications,
The Pennsylvania State University
MSc : Michigan Technological University
BA : University of Ghana
Diploma : La Universidad de Cienfuegos, Cuba
Languages : Dagbanli, English & Spanish
New Book Alert! 📚!
New Book Alert! 📚!
DECEMBER 09, 2025
Media, Culture and Decolonization: Re-righting the Subaltern Histories of Ghana invites us to look at media and culture from a decolonial perspective. Through Dagbaŋ epistemologies and knowledge systems, this book examines media by highlighting how African languages, cultures and traditions can shift how we think of knowledge.
It is an offering to anyone curious about the relationship between culture, language and media. By focusing on African language media in Ghana such as film, television and radio, the book emphasizes the importance of espousing a decolonial politic and praxis in the process of co-creating knowledge with indigenous communities.
It connects the struggles of global majority countries and demonstrates the ways in which (neo)colonialism and imperialism impede the work toward liberatory futures. This book demonstrates the potential that African language media hold as tools of cultural and epistemological decolonization.
Publication Date: December 9, 2025
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
I am available to give talks/lectures
(fall 2026 & spring 2026) on my
forthcoming book.
Teaching & Mentoring
I have taught a variety of classes in international communication, global media industries, feminist studies and research methods at the undergraduate level at Cornell University, the University of Georgia and the Pennsylvania State University.