Keyan Gray Tomaselli is a South African communication professor and author, currently Professor Emeritus and Fellow at University of KwaZulu-Natal, where he established and operated its Centre for Communication, Media and Society for 29 years until becoming a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at University of Johannesburg. He is also editor of the UKZN-UJ journal Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies and co-editor at UJ's journal Journal of African Cinemas. [1] He is also a published author and has been largely collected by libraries. [2]
Besides his more conventional media studies activities, Prof Tomaselli participated in several field trips among the Kalahari San people. [3]
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