Silas Udenze

Silas Udenze is an interdisciplinary qualitative researcher. He earned his PhD (Excellent cum laude) in Humanities and Communication from Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. His research interests cut across the fringes of media/communication studies, sociology and anthropology. He studies Nigeria´s contemporary and past socio-political movements through the lenses of memory, social movements, digital activism and digital ethnography. His works have been published in Media, War and Conflict, Memory Studies, Communication and the Public, to name a few. He was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center of Digital Anthropology (CDA), University College London, and a member of the Digital Ethnography Working Group (DEWG) at Rutgers University, United States.

Recent publications:

Udenze, S. (2025). “It’s a way to rally my inner circles and get them involved”: The Dynamics of Private Activism on WhatsApp in Nigeria. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 0(0).

Udenze, S. (2024).“No Gree for Anybody!”- “Without our compliance, their power means nothing”: unveiling the subtleness in Nigeria’s socio-political activism. Journal for Cultural Research, 1–18.

Udenze, S., Roig Telo, A., & Pires, F. (2024). ‘The EndSARS movement is an umbrella for other challenges’: Assessing Nigeria’s EndSARS protest through the theoretical lens of intersectionality. Media, War & Conflict, 17(4), 501-518.

Udenze, S. & Roig, A.T (2023). Communicating Social Change through Indigenous Nigerian Pidgin English: An Assessment of Brekete Family Programme on Human Rights Radio 101.1, Abuja, Nigeria, in Salawu et al. (eds), Indigenous Language for Social Change: Communication in the Global South. Lexington Books.

Udenze, S. (2023). Exploring Nigeria EndSARS movement through the nexus of memory. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research.