Albert is a Visiting Researcher at CAMRI at the University of Westminster. He researches decoloniality, digital media, digital politics, networked social movements, state surveillance, digital culture and artificial intelligence. He is a Mentor of digital media innovators at the International Press Institute (IPI).

He is a beneficiary of the University of Witwatersrand (Wits) and University of Edinburgh partnership. He spent three years of his PhD at Wits and the fourth year at Edinburgh’s Centre of African Studies under the Commonwealth Scholarship. Currently, he is on a Wits-Edinburgh postdoctoral research fellowship, converting his PhD into a book with Oxford University Press.

At CAMRI, he will be building up on his forth-coming Special Issue with JSAS, Digital State Surveillance Against Political Activists in Southern African, co-edited with Dr George Karekwaivanane and Professor Joel Quirk. He will be working with Dr Anastasia Kavada to examine how activists in Southern Africa respond to state repression against political activism.

Before moving to academics, Albert spent 10 years in the newsroom. His last position was Investigative Journalist (Solutions Journalism). He is a multi-award-winning journalist with over 20 media awards. He is a three-time winner of the MISA-Malawi’s Overall Best Journalist of the Year Award. He has published widely on journalism and his forth-coming book, Technologies and Media Production Cultures: A Global South Perspective, with Palgrave Macmillan co-edited with Professor Ufuoma Akpojivi, is among the first collections to explore how technologies are transforming media production cultures in the Global South.