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Alex Egodotaye Asakitikpi is Head of the School of Social Sciences at IIE MSA (formerly Monash South Africa). Previously he served as Professor of Sociology at Monash South Africa and Section Editor of the South African Journal of Human Resource Management. He serves on the Executive Board of Research Committee 15 of the International Sociological Association and is a Non-Resident Scholar at the Center for Religion, Spirituality, and Health at Duke University, USA. He is the current Citizenship and Democracy Ambassador of the UNESCO-UNITWIN project. Among other outlets, his publications have appeared in the Nordic Journal of African Studies, Synthesis Philosophica, Africa Development, and African Identities. His research interests include the intersection of religion/spirituality and health outcomes, health policy in Africa, the sociocultural context of diseases and illness, and indigenous knowledge production and systems. Aretha Oluwakemi Asakitikpi holds a doctoral degree in African Studies, specializing in anthropology and communication. She has carried out numerous research projects that interrogate media, culture, and development through discourse, textual, photographic, and symbolic analysis. She is a consultant, researcher, and adjunct academic staff at the Southern Business School in Johannesburg, South Africa. As an active member of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee 13, she has made numerous presentations and organized various sessions under this platform. Asakitikpi also serves as a research manuscript reviewer for Media War and Conflict and the Journal of Sociology and Anthropology. Her research works have appeared in book chapters published by CODESRIA and UNESCO and in journals such as the Nordic Journal of African Studies, Global Media Journal, International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure, and Politikon: South African Journal Studies. Her current research interests include leisure and development, gender, and media studies in the global south. |
