Staff Profiles

PhD (City, University of London)

MA (City, University of London)

BA (University of the West Indies (UWI))

Adv. Dipl., Mass Comm. (UWI)

Hopeton Dunn is Professor of Media and Communication and Graduate Co-ordinator in the Media Studies Department, University of Botswana. He is also Senior Research Associate (non resident), School of Communication, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He served for six years as Director of the Caribbean School of Media and Communication (CARIMAC) at the University of the West Indies (UWI) in Jamaica, and is the Founding Director of the Mona ICT Policy Centre at UWI. Professor Dunn is a former Secretary General of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), and currently serves as Chair of the Association's international judging panel for the biennial award of the Stuart Hall Prize. He is an active collaborator with UNESCO's Media and Information Literacy (MILL) programme.

Professor Dunn is a Research Fellow of the the Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA), based in Kampala, Uganda, and a member of the South African Communication Association (SACOMM).

He served for 10 years as Chairman of the regulatory Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica (BCJ), and for a similar period as Chairman of the government's Creative Production and Training Centre (CPTC), during which he established its training arm Media Technology Institute (MTI) and its affiliated cable channel Creative Television (CTV), now called JAMVISION.

Professor Dunn is a Law Magistrate and a Justice of the Peace for Kingston, Jamaica.

• Media and Communication Theories
• Media Policy, Regulation and Law
• Communication Research Methods
• History of World Media
• Media, Culture and Society
• Media Projects and Dissertations

Globalisation, Communication and Cultural Identity

Broadcasting Regulatory Reforms

Technology Policy and Development

Media and Information Literacy

New Media and the Global South

New Media and Development Strategies

International and Cross Cultural Communication

Telecommunications Policy

Political Communication

1. Dunn, H.; Moyo, D., Lesitaokana, W. and Barnabas S. (Eds) (2020 in-press) – Reimagining Communication in Africa and the Caribbean: Media, Culture and Technology in the Global South, Palgrave Macmillan
2. Robinson, Laura, Schultz, Jeremy and Dunn, Hopeton (Eds) (2017) – Digital Empowerment: Opportunities and Challenges of Inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean, Emerald, UK (359 pages) 
3. Dunn, Hopeton (Ed) (2012) – Ringtones of Opportunity: Policy, Technology and Access in Caribbean Communications– Ian Randle Publishers, Kingston (paperback and e-book editions) (300 pgs.) 
4. Dunn, H (2020) Risking Identity: A Case Study of Jamaica's Short-lived National ID System, Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, Emerald, June 2020, Pages 229 – 233
5. Dunn H. and Lewis R. (2020) Peter Abrahams 100: Milestones in Literature, Media and Political Commentary. In  Critical Arts, Unisa Press and Routledge Vol 34, No 1

B.Sc, PGDE, M.Sc, MBA, Mcs.eh & PhD

Stanley Osezua Ehiane is a Senior Lecturer and a Programme Coordinator in the Department of Political and Administrative Studies, at the University of Botswana. Ehiane is also a Research Fellow, at the Department of Development Studies, School of Social Sciences, University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria, South Africa, and a Senior Research Associate (SRA) in the School of Public Management, Governance and Public Policy (SPMGPP), University of Johannesburg, South Africa.  He is the co-author of Citizenship Education and co-author of Public Administrative: An Introduction. He co-edited books on Cybercrime and Challenges in South Africa (Palgrave Macmillan 2023), Engagement of Africa in Conflict Dynamics and Peace Architecture (Palgrave Macmillan 2024), Understanding the Horizontal and Vertical Nature of Africa Migration in Contemporary Times (Palgrave Macmillan-2024) and Gender, Sexualities and Complexities in Africa (Palgrave Macmillan). Ehiane is an interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and trans-disciplinary scholar. He is an active member of the African Studies Research Forum (ASRF), in the United States. His research interest lies in the fields of Governance, peace and conflict, terrorism and counter-terrorism, cybercrime and cybersecurity, climate change, Migration and refugee.

Politics, International Relations, & Security and Strategic Studies

Interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary (Governance, peace and conflict, terrorism and counterterrorism, cybercrime and cybersecurity, climate change, Migration and refugee).

1. Gabi Mkhize, Stanley Osezua Ehiane, & Lupenga Mphande (2025). Genders, Sexualities, and complexities in Africa (Ed.). Switzerland. Springer Nature. https://link.springer.com/book/9789819606474.

2. Stanley Osezua Ehiane, Masuku Mandla and Suping Kekgaoditse (2024). Understanding the horizontal and vertical nature of Africa migration in contemporary times (Ed). https://link.springer.com/book/9789819775958. ISBN 978-981-97-7596-5.

3. Paul Kariuki, Stanley Osezua Ehiane & Bhekithemba R Mngomezulu (2024). Political and Civil Leadership in Africa: Changes and Transitions in Political and Civil Leadership in Africa: Changes and Transitions. (Ed). South Africa. UJ Press. 

4. Stanley Osezua Ehiane, Lukong Stella Shulika, Clayton Hazvinei Vhumbunu (2024). Engagement of Africa in Conflict Dynamics and Peace Architectures (Ed). Switzerland. Springer Nature. https://link.springer.com/book/9789819982349.

5. Stanley Osezua Ehiane, Sogo Angel Olofinbiyi, Sazelo Michael Mkhize (Oct 2023). Cybercrime and Challenges in South Africa (Ed). https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-99-3057-

BA Humanities (1995) University of Botswana 

Post Graduate Diploma in Education (1996) University of Botswana

MA in Language Studies (1998) University of Lancaster, UK

PhD in Linguistics (2007) University of Lancaster, UK

Dr. Sibonile Edith Ellece is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English. She specializes in Critical Discourse Analysis and Gender and Language, and teaches a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses that broadly cover introductory linguistics, English grammar, pragmatics, and discourse analysis.She has published widely in the areas of Gender and Language and Critical Discourse Analysis. She has also authored a number of book chapters, and co-authored and co-edited a number of books . Her main research focus is on the intersection of gender, language, sexuality and the cultural institution of marriage and related practices. Dr. Ellece has been Editor in Chief of Pula: Botswana Journal of African Studies since 2012 and has transformed it from a print-based journal to a fully online one . She is also Associate Editor of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language . In addition, she is a member of the editorial boards of Gender and Language and Gender and Education. She is a dedicated reviewer for a number of local and international journals, among which are Discourse Studies, Discourse and Society, Journal of Multicultural Discourses, Critical Discourse Studies, Agenda, Feminist Formations, South African Journal of African Languages, Marang and Mosenodi. She has also been a moderator for University of Botswana Affiliated Colleges as well as a member of the Botswana English Panel which is responsible for the periodic revision of the BGCSE English syllabus.

Dr. Ellece has a wealth of experience teaching at institutions of higher learning. Her teaching at the University spans 24 years. She has also taught short courses at Koblenz-Landau in Germany and Lancaster University, UK. She has taught in the area of descriptive linguistics, , and in sociolinguistics, with a focus on discourse analysis and the gender and language interface. She has also taught professional short courses  in critical thinking and advanced oral presentations in CSSU.

Marriage Discourses, Gender, Language and Sexuality, Language and Power in traditional/cultural settings. 

Dr. Ellece has successfully supervised a number of Masters projects  in the area of Discourse Analysis with a focus on gender, politics and the media. She is currently supervising a PhD student who is working on a critical discourse analysis of media representation of political actors in Nigeria. Her greatest supervision strength is in critical discourse analysis and gender. 

Journal Articles:

Ellece S. E. (2012). The Placenta of the Nation: Motherhood Discourses in Tswana Marriage Ceremonies. Gender and Language, 6(1)

Ellece, S. E. (2011). Be a Fool Like Me: Gender Construction in the Tswana Marriage Advice Ceremony. Agenda 25(1)

Books:

Atanga, L., Ellece S. E., Sunderland, J & Litosseliti L. (eds.) (2013). Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa: Tradition, Struggle and Change. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Baker, P. & Ellece S. (2011). Key Terms in Discourse Analysis. London and New York: Continuum. ( Trans. Japanese 2018 and partial Mandarin 2016).

Book Chapters

Ellece S. E. ( fc. 2020). Homophobia and the Media: A Sample Critical Discourse Analysis. In Kira Hall & Rusty Barrett (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Language and Sexuality. Oxford.

Ellece S. E. (2011). Gender and Cultural Identity in a Television Show in Botswana. In Anchimbe & Mforteh (eds.) Post-colonial Linguistic Voices.  Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

PhD (Estate Management) Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria

MSc (Estate Mgt.) University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria

BSc (Honours) (Estate Mgt.) University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria

MBA (B & Fin)

PGD (B & Fin)

FELLOW (FNIVS) since 2001

Registered Estate Surveyor & Valuer

Prof. F. I. Emoh, a registered Estate Surveyor and Valuer and a Fellow of the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers, holds BSc, MSc, PhD Degrees in Estate Management  & PGD, MBA in Banking and Finance. He has varied professional experience having worked as a Senior Lands/Valuation Officer in Anambra State, Principal Consultant, Ifeanyi Emoh & Co. and CEO, NIESV Ventures Ltd in Nigeria. He is a Professor of Real Estate & Valuation & HOD at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria before coming to University of Botswana. He has over 60 publications in referred journals, 3 standard real estate textbooks and 3 book chapters. He has served variously as a Board Member, Estate Surveyors & Valuers Registration Board of Nigeria (ESVARBON), National Council Member of the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors & Valuers (NIESV) & Editor-In-Chief, NIESV Journal. He had also served as the Chairman, Education Committee of ESVARBON  as well as the Education Committee of NIESV. He has provided professional consultancy services to governments, agencies and institutions in areas of property, plant and machinery valuation, compulsory acquisition and compensation claims, real estate & management consultancy. Prof. Emoh is a Fellow, Institute of Management Consultants (FIMC), a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) and a Member of NIESV Faculty of Business Assets & Intellectual Property Valuation

Real Estate and Valuation

Business  and Professional Ethics

Business Planning and Entrepreneurship

Land Economics

Building Maintenance

Real Estate and Valuation

Plant and Machinery Valuation

Property Finance and Investments

Property, Facilities and Project Management

Real Estate Entrepreneurship

Restate and Valuation

Appraisals

Rating and Taxation

Real Estate Entrepreneurship

Emoh, F.I., Onyejiaka,J. C. (2020). Developing an efficient database for property valuation in Anambra State, Nigeria. British Journal of Environmental Sciences 8(2) 18-56

Nnametu, J. N., Emoh, F.I. (2020). An Evaluation of Rental Housing Affordability by Staff of Tertiary Institutions in Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria. Current Urban Studies (8),1-23.  

Ekwebelem V. N., Emoh, F. I. (2020). Effects of Macroeconomic Variables on Residential Property Investment in Abuja Metropolis, Nigeria. IRE Journals 3(7)

 Kalu Nwojo Awa, Nnametu, J. & Emoh, F. I.  (2019). Global determinants of direct real estate investment returns in Nigeria.  PM World Journal   VIII(X) 1-13

Emoh, F.I., Uzuanje, I. (2015).The effect of increasing cost of capital on the profitability of real estate development in Benin City, Nigeria. International Journal of Finance and  and Accounting (IJFA), 6(20), 81-91

PhD (Environmental & Occupational Health) - University of Newcastle, Australia

Master of Science (Occupational Health) - University of Birmingham, UK

Baccalaureus Technologiae (Environmental Health) - Nelson Mandela University, RSA

National Diploma (Environmental Health) - Nelson Mandela, RSA

Patience Erick is an Occupational Health and Safety Lecturer with more than 10 years of teaching experience in UB. Dr Erick is currently substantive Head of the Department of Environmental Health and Acting Head of School of Public Health in the Faculty of Health Sciences. Patience serves in a number of committees in UB and outside UB and is a member of a number of professional bodies/associations.  She possess excellent interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills and the ability to develop and maintain mutually beneficial internal and external relationships and recently collaborated with colleagues from different faculties and submitted an EDCTP Grant Application as a Co-Principal Investigator. She enjoys being part of, as well as leading, motivating and training, a successful and productive team, and also thrives in a challenging working environments.

Occupational Hygiene, Health & Safety

Issues of Occupational Health Nursing

Environmental Health Seminars

Research Project in Environmental Health

Musculoskeletal disorders 

Post traumatic stress disorder 

Children's environmental health 

Masters Degree

Veronicah Matlhale (2019). Workplace violence: Experiences of nurses at a psychiatric mental hospital in Botswana

Boingotlo Hlabano (2019). Secondary traumatic stress among emergency care nurses in referral hospitals in Botswana.

Keatlaretse Alinah Chijoro (2019). Assessment of Psychosocial Hazards among Health care workers in Mental Health Hospitals: A Case of SPH

Erick, P. (2020). Botswana: country report on children’s environmental health. 35(1), 9. DOI: 10.1515/reveh-2019-0092

Mbongwe, B., Moinami, J., Masupe, T., Tapera, R., Molefe, T., Erick, P., . . . Massele, A. (2020). Nature and sources of poisoning in patients admitted to a referral hospital in Gaborone, Botswana; findings and implications. Hospital Practice, 1-8.https://doi.org/10.1080/21548331.2020.1739415

Erick, P. N., Ditsala, U., Tapera, R., & Mbongwe, B. (2019). Self-Reported Fatigue among construction workers in Gaborone, Botswana. African Journal of Environmental Health Sciences, 6(Nov), 85-97.

Mbongwe, B., Mphahudi, P., Tapera, R., & Erick, P. (2018). The prevalence of oral conditions and tobacco use among dental patients at princess Marina Mental Clinic, Botswana. Tobacco Induced Diseases, 16(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.18332/tid/8460

MD, anatomic pathologist, also attended cytology training in Zurich University, Switzerland and Breast & Gynecology pathology in Nottingham University Hospital, UK

I was born on eighth of June 1965 in Ethiopia. I joined medical school at Jimma University in Sept 1985 and received MD degree in Feb 1991. I served as general medical practitioner in district hospital for four years. In January 1995 started residency in anatomic pathology at Addis Ababa University and completed the program in July 1998 with specialty diploma.  In August 1998 I joined my former medical school, Jimma University and appointed as lecturer. I worked for over 15 years Jimma in University till I Joined the University of Botswana in Feb 2015.  In both higher learning institutions, I taught undergraduate and postgraduate medicine students along with anatomic pathology service. My experience in anatomic pathology was assessed and I’m certified as consultant pathologist by registering body in Ethiopia and Botswana Health professional council in Botswana.  This coordinated teaching and anatomic pathology practice for many years has helped me to generate case scenarios and specimens for teaching. Particularly in my current institution my engagement in surgical and cytopathology at the National Health Laboratory Ministry of Health and Wellness has enabled me to identify very nice cases for teaching and students’ assessment.  I had served as HOD pathology in my former University and was also acting HOD in the University Of Botswana, Faculty of Medicine, and Department of pathology from April 2016 to July 2018.  I’m married and father of two boys.

Under graduate mainly general pathology and selected topics in cardiorespiratory, genitourinary and gastrointestinal diseases in attempt to facilitate the problem based learning of the students. Postgraduate teaching is surgical and cytopathology. As postgraduate program is learning by doing much of the engagement is supervision and guidance. In fact one to one engagement with trainees is the main activity in graduate program teaching. I engaged in grossing and FNA aspiration technique teaching

Investigation of the causes of lymphadenopathy using FNA aspiration cytology was one of my research areas. This research has identified various diagnostic methods for tuberculous lymphadenitis and couple of publications has come out. The other focus of research is HPV strain identification and epidemiology of cervical cancer. Currently I’m being involved in a project about the Role of Novel Tests, Biomarkers and HPV Vaccines for Cervical Cancer in Botswana.

Grossing bench activity, FNA cytology aspiration procedure and one to one session for case demonstration and also case sign out. The other supervision area is mentorship in dissertation projects. I’m assigned to mentor the following projects. Positive predictive value of FNA cytology on malignant disease of the breast, factors affecting concordance of Pap smear and histopathology reports in cervical cancer screening & treatment and histopathology laboratory quality assurance studies.

1. Alemayehu Bekele, M. Baay, Zeleke Mekonnen, Sultan Suleman and S. Chatterjee. Human papillomavirus type distribution among women with cervical pathology – a study over 4 years at Jimma Hospital, Southwest Ethiopia. Tropical Medicine and International Health, volume 15 no 8 pp 890–893 august 2010.
2. M.Tadesse, G.Abebe, A.Bekele, M.Bezabih, D.Yilma, L.Apers, B.C.de Jong, L.Rigouts. Xpert MTB/RIF assay for the diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis: a diagnostic evaluation study. Clinical Microbiology and Infection; 22 December 2018, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmi.2018.12.018
3. Atif SaleemID 1, Alemayehu Bekele2, Megan B. FitzpatrickID1, Eiman A. MahmoudID3, Athena W. Lin3, H. Eduardo Velasco3, and Mona M. Rashed4: Knowledge and awareness of cervical cancer in Southwestern Ethiopia is lacking: A descriptive analysis. PLOS ONE | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215117 November 12, 2019.

Dr. Ewurum holds a PhD in Estate Management awarded in 2019 from Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka.

He obtained both M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees (2-1) in Estate Management from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in 2014 and 2007 respectively. 

Dr. Nonso Ewurum is a scholar, author, and researcher in the field of Estate Management, with over 15 years of experience in industry practice.

Prior to his doctorate degree in Estate Management, he gained valuable industry experience working in property management, marketing, and consultancy roles for firms in Abuja and Enugu, Nigeria. He has transferred this wealth of experience to the classroom where his passion for the real estate profession has helped inspire current and next generation of real estate professionals.

Currently, Dr. Ewurum is a Lecturer at the University of Botswana, Gaborone. He has held committee, board, and academic positions at University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and the Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu. He is also a member of the advisory board of Boldscholar Research Inc., a reviewer of web of science indexed journals, an editorial board member of SEER Journal, and a double beneficiary of research grants (TETFUND NRF & IBR).

His scholarly interests encompass a wide range of topics, including real estate investment analysis, sustainable housing, real estate marketing, and disruptive technologies. He has published in peer-reviewed journals, and presented papers at numerous international conferences including ARES, ERES, and PRRES. 

Dr. Ewurum is open to teaching all aspects of the Estate Management discipline. However, his teaching experience has covered portfolio management, real estate appraisals, research methodology, value and risk management, property law, and land policy. Others are property valuation, property rating, applied town planning, fundamentals of estate management, land economics, property management, and project management.

His research areas are as follows:

Real estate investment analysis

Sustainable housing

Real estate marketing, and

Disruptive technologies.

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Brokerage performance drivers amongst married working women in an emerging real estate market - Property Management

Idiosyncratic Dynamic Capabilities and Institutional Blockchain-driven Land Information Management in Developing Countries - ERES

Housing deficit attenuation through market-oriented polycentric management: Evidence from Nigeria - Developing Country Studies

Affordable Housing Ambidexterity of Real Estate Investment Trusts: SWOT Analysis for N-REITs - European Journal of Business and Management

Sustainable Public Housing Delivery in Nigeria: A Conceptual Stakeholder Management Model - Journal of Economics and Sustainable Development

Sustainable development through green-themed environmental impact assessment: Lessons for developing countries - Journal of Environment and Earth Science

Foreign Direct Investment in Nigeria's Commercial Real Estate Market: A SWOT Analysis - Journal of Business and Management 

Ph.D. in Sociology - University of Bristol, United Kingdom (2011)

MSc in Social Science Research Methods - University of Bristol (2007)

BA in Philosophy - Widya Sasana School of Philosophy and Theology, Malang, Indonesia (1996)

I joined the Department of Sociology at the University of Botswana (UB) in 2013. Prior to starting Lectureship at UB, I was a Lecturer at Kgolagano College in Gaborone and a Teaching Assistant in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS) at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. I completed my Ph.D. in Sociology in 2011 and MSc in Social Science Research Methods with distinction in 2007 at the SPAIS, University of Bristol. I was one of the recipients of the Overseas Research Scholarship (ORS) awarded by the University of Bristol for my doctoral research. I actively participated in community development projects in Botswana from 2000 to 2006. Among others, I established the Lesang Bana Care Centre and initiated the Pabalelong Hospice in Metsimotlhabe village.

I was Principal Investigator of a study on “New Media and Religion in Botswana” funded by the Nagel Institute with funding from the John Templeton Foundation in the USA from 2016 to 2017. My current research focuses on “Motivations of Selfie-Taking and Ethical Sensibilities of Selfie-Posting among Young People in Botswana” and "Climate Change Communication." Currently, I am one of the Lead Partners of the Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (GCSMUS) and PLUS Sustainability project. Both projects are funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Apart from lecturing, I am also Coordinator of the Master's in Development Practice Programme at UB.

I teach the following courses at UB: Basic Concepts Principles of Social Research (SOC226), Research proposal Writing (SOC441), Data Analysis and Report Writing (SOC442) and Research and Analysis Methods (DVS607). I also coordinate Advanced Social Science Research Methods (FSS800), a postgraduate course designed for MPhil/PhD candidates at the University of Botswana. In addition, I teach two courses on technology and society at the Botswana University of Science and Technology (BIUST) in Palapye

My main research interests are focused on digital society and culture, new media and religious practice, multiculturalism and the politics of intercultural dialogue, climate change communication.

I currently (co-)supervise seven Ph.D. candidates and one MADVS student. I welcome MPhil/Ph.D. students for research in the following areas: digital society, new media and cultural/religious practices, technology and society, religion and politics, climate change communication.

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