Addamms Mututa

Addamms Songe Mututa is affiliated with the Department of Communication and Media, University of Johannesburg. He is a co-editor of the Journal of African Cinemas and holds a joint PhD in Media Studies (film) from the University of Tübingen, Germany, and the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He researches African cinemas, post-apartheid cultures, critical theory, and postcolonialism. Recent research has focused on South Africa, South Sudan, Egypt, Kenya, Angola, DRC Congo, and Liberia, with his recent monograph being Crisis Urbanism and Postcolonial African Cities in Postmillennial Cinema (2022). Some of his research areas include cinema cultures, crisis theory, critical post-apartheid studies, critical cinema studies, gender in cinema, cinema and political rhetoric.

Recent publications:

Tomaselli, K., & Mututa, A. (2025). Strategic communication futures: Paradigm and practice in a polycrisis world. Communicare: Journal for Communication Studies in Africa, 44(1), 24–35. https://doi.org/10.36615/b13my978

Mututa, A. (2025). Re-framing loss in South Sudan’s biographical cinema: Political and cultural nationalism in Sudan ‘Lost Boys’ diaspora film. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2025.2470490

Mututa, A. (2024). Epistemology of the ethnographic image: Hybridising genre in South Sudan’s autobiographical cinema. Visual Anthropology, 37(3), 283–300. https://doi.org/10.1080/08949468.2024.2334192

Mututa, A., & Tomaselli, K. (2024). Multiphrenic identities and cultural theory in post-apartheid literary adaptations: Reflections on Ramadan Suleiman’s film version of Njabulo Simakhale Ndebele’s Fools. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, 36(1), 56–68. https://doi.org/10.1080/1013929X.2024.2325770

Mututa, A. (2024). Nationhood in South Sudan cinema: The iconicity of motherhood in Akuol de Mabior’s No Simple Way Home (2023). African Studies Review, First View, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2024.40