Prof. Fredrick Ogenga is an Associate Professor, of Media and Security Studies at Rongo University and the Founding Director Center for Media, Democracy, Peace and Security, at Rongo University. He is also The President and CEO of the Peacemakers Corps Foundation Kenya, a local NGO that is a member of Alliance for Peacebuilding that uses technology to build peace, working with the youth.
Ogenga is a 2014 Individual Research Fellow (IRF 2014), Africa Peacebuilding Network and 2016 Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding Scholar (SVNP 2016), Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC. He is a former Visiting Research Fellow at the African Studies Center, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University, USA and Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath, UK. Ogenga is also a former Visiting Scholar at the Institute for the Advancement of Social Sciences (IASS), Boston University, and the Boston University Sociology Department and a Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.
Ogenga is widely published in the area of media, peace, and security. Currently, he is championing African Peace Journalism through a Pan-African institutional methodological and philosophical approach to media and peacebuilding in Africa anchored on the philosophies of Utu or humanity, Umoja or Unity, and Harambee or collective responsibility captured in his latest edited book “Peace Journalism in East Africa- A Manual for Media Practitioners” published by Routledge. He has developed a new MSc and Ph.D. program in Media and Security Studies at Rongo University through the Center for Media Democracy, Peace and Security. He is currently a Letsema Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Pan-Africa Thought and Conversation (IPATC) at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa and Academic Co-chair, East Africa Hub Joint Learning Initiative (JLI)
Honors and Awards
- 2022 Letsema Visiting Fellowship at the Institute of Pan-Africa Thought and
Conversation at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa - 2017-2018 Carnegie Fund for Conference Attendance (CFCA)
- 2016 Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding Scholarship, Woodrow Wilson
- International Center for Scholars
- 2015 Canergie Africa Diaspora Fellowship Institutional Host Partner
- 2014 Africa Peacebuilding Network Fellowship (Social Science Research Council)
- 2004 -2009 Awarded the Post Graduate Merit Award University of Witwatersrand
- 2009 -2010 Harold & Doris Tothill Bequest Fund Prestige Scholarship for Doctoral
Research at the University of Witwatersrand. - 2009 -2010 University Council Scholarship, University of Witwatersrand South Africa
for Doctoral Research. - 2011 Post-doctoral fellowship by the University of Witwatersrand Jan to July 2011
- 2004 Perinatal HIV/AIDS Research (PHRU) Scholarship, University of Witwatersrand
Professional Affiliation
- Editorial Board Member, Journal of BRICS studies
- Media Council of Kenya
- Member of the Joint Learning Initiative, East African Learning Hub
- Editorial Board Member Journal of Art, Design, and Communication in Higher Education
- Editorial Board Member Congo Afrique Journal
- Editorial Board Member, Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Editor, Journal of Crime and Violence, forthcoming (a Journal of the National Crime
Prevention Center. - Editorial Board Member, Propaganda in Focus
- Editorial Board Member Synesthesia Journal
- Editorial Board Member Journal of Journalism and Mass Communication
- Associate Editor, Frontiers in Communication
- Member of the Africa Peace Building Network (APN)
- Member of the Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding (SVNP)
- Member of the International Panel on Exiting Violence (IPEV)
Research Interests
Media and Security Studies:
Ogenga is championing Pan-African institutional methodological and philosophical
approach to media and peacebuilding in Africa anchored on the philosophies of Utu or humanity, Umoja or Unity, and Harambee or collective responsibility.
Ongoing research project
East Africa Joint Learning Initiative on Faith Actors, Governance, and Peacebuilding.
Vice Chancellor, Rongo University (2012- to-Date) Formerly Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Planning and Development), Moi University (2002 – 2012)
He is a holder of a BSc (Agric) 1983, University of Nairobi. MSc (Genetics and Plant Breeding) 1987, University of Nairobi. Ph.D. (Genetics in Molecular Biology ) 1993, University of Guelph, Canada.
He is a Professor (2003 to date) of Genetics and Biotechnology, Department of Biological Sciences, Moi University; Associate Professor (1999 – 2003) of Genetics and Biotechnology, Moi University; Senior Lecturer (1995 – 1999) in Plant Genetics and Biotechnology, Moi University; Lecturer (1989 – 1995) in Genetics and Evolution, Moi University; Assistant Lecturer (1988 – 1989), in Genetics and Evolution, Moi University; Tutorial Fellow (1987 – 1988), Moi University; Part-time Lecturer (1986), Department of Botany, Moi University; Graduate Assistant (1985 – 1986), University of Nairobi; and Agricultural Research Officer II (1983), Ministry of Agriculture, Perkerra Agric. Research Station
Abu Bah is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Northern Illinois University and a Faculty Associate at the Center for NGO Leadership and Development. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review published by Indiana University Press and the author of Breakdown and Reconstitution: Democracy, the Nation-State, and Ethnicity in Nigeria. His research work deals with human security and human development issues, especially in the areas of good governance, violent political conflicts, humanitarian intervention, democracy, international NGOs/intergovernmental organizations, and postwar reconstruction. His most recent works have been published in journals such as Journal of International Peacekeeping, African Affairs, Critical Sociology, International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, and Africa Today. He is currently completing his second book on international state-building in West Africa.
Abu Bah is a recipient of the 2014 Carnegie Foundation African Diaspora Fellowship and the 2012 Council of American Overseas Research Centers Multi-Country Research Fellowship. He is a frequent guest on international media programs such as Al Jazeera America and China Radio International.