Bio

Gaaki Kigambo is a PhD Candidate at the Centre for Film and Media Studies, University of Cape Town, specialising in Media Studies. His doctoral study is titled Mediating Contentious Politics in Hybrid Regimes: Press Coverage of Political Protests in Uganda. It examines how Ugandan print news media interpret and portray political protests in the politically restrictive context of Uganda, where the state restricts public expressions of dissent against it and press coverage of such expressions. The study draws on empirical observations made on the coverage of political protests in Uganda, and extensive knowledge of how the country’s news media operate obtained firsthand over a decade and a half of journalistic work with major print news publications in Uganda and East Africa. 

Mr. Gaaki holds a Master of Journalism from Carleton University and a Bachelor of Arts with Education from Makerere University. His research, broadly conceived, focuses on media representations of marginalities.