Osa’ Amienyi is professor of creative media production and chair of the department of media at Arkansas State University. From July 2010 to June 2012, he served as interim dean of the university’s college of communications. He has been a faculty member since 1989, teaching a variety of courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, including communication theory and research, broadcast management, television production, media advertising and sales, and international communications. He has participated in numerous curriculum revisions at the both department and college and presented media sensitivity training to numerous non-profit organisations. He is a proven scholar with several published research articles, book chapters and a book, titled Communicating national integration: Empowering Development in African Countries.