Lyombe Eko is the William S. Morris endowed professor in Innovation, Information and Journalism at the College of Media and Communication, Texas Tech University. He was born in the colonial Buea Native Authority, Southern Cameroons as a “native subject” of Her Majesty the Queen of England. He attended the Baptist Bible College in Ndu, Donga Mantung, and the Bilingual Grammar School in Molyko, Buea. He earned his B.A. in Foreign Language Studies & Media Communication at the University of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, his M.A. in Media Communication from Wheaton College Illinois, and his doctorate in Journalism and Mass Communication from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
Before he joined Texas Tech in 2015, he was an associate professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He was also Director of the African Studies Program at the University of Iowa. He has also taught at the University of Maine in Orono, Maine. Before his academic career, he was a journalist at Cameroon Radio and Television (CRTV) Yaoundé, and an editor/translator at the African Broadcasting Union (URTNA) in Nairobi, Kenya. His documentary, Kip Keeps Kids, which focuses on Kenyan Olympic multi-gold medal winner Kipchoge Keino, won an international prize at the Prix Futura TV Festival in Germany. He has published multiple refereed journal articles, and five books on comparative and international communication law and policy. He is the winner of a Texas Tech University President’s Book Award, an Independent Publisher Book Award, and an International Book Award.
Biography
Lyombe Eko is the William S. Morris endowed professor in Innovation, Information and Journalism at the College of Media and Communication, Texas Tech University. Before he joined Texas Tech in 2015, he was an associate professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication.