Jacinta Mwende Maweu

Research

Research Interests

  • Media Ethics
  • Media, conflict and Peace-building
  • Media and Democracy
  • Disinformation and political populism
  • Climate Change Communication
  • Critical thinking and Communication
  • Political Economy of the Media
  • Media and Human rights
  • Health communication
  • Peace Journalism
  • Advertising and Consumer Behavior
  • Communication planning and development
  • Applied Philosophy
  • Creative and Critical Thinking
  • Environmental Ethics
  • Stoic Philosophy
  • Philosophy and gender
  • Philosophy and Human Right
  • Ethics, Leadership and Governance
  • Philosophy of Law
  • Intercultural Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Education

I have over 40 publications comprising of peer reviewed journal articles, book chapters in peer reviewed edited volumes, solo authored and two co-authored university level books published by Routledge and Lexington Books.

Google scholar Citations:

I have a total of 446 google scholar citations with 355 citations since 2020 and 12 i10-index citations and 13 h-index citations (Dr. Jacinta Maweu https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gWWfMn0AAAAJ&hl=en)

ResearchGate citations: I have over 206 citations at research gate with 10 h-index citations with 142.5 Research Interest Score (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jacinta-Maweu)

Journal articles
  1. Maweu, J. M., & Muthegethi, D. M. 2025. “An issue of no importance?” Media representation of discourses on sexual identities in Kenya. Feminist Media Studies, 25(6), 1361–1377. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2025.2514065
  2. Maluvu, Z., Oludhe, C., Daniel Kisangau, & Jacinta M. Maweu. 2025. Green Gram Yield Projections For Kibwezi East Subcounty Kenya Using The Apsim Model Under Rcp’s 4.5 And 8.5 . Journal Of Agrometeorology, 27(1), 33–37. Https://Doi.Org/10.54386/Jam.V27i1.2722
  3. Maluvu, Z. M., Oludhe, C., Kisangau, D. & Maweu, J.M 2024. Adaptation Strategies and Interventions to Increase Yield in Green Gram Production Under a Changing Climate in Eastern Kenya. African Journal of Climate Change and Resource Sustainability, 3(1), 370-386. https://doi.org/10.37284/ajccrs.3.1.2336.
  4. Ongesa, C., Mbugua, K. & Maweu, J. 2024. Addressing the Lacuna in Critical Thinking in Kenyan Secondary School Chemistry Curriculum. Journal of Educational Thought / Revue de la Pensée Educative Vol. 57 No. 1, PP.  (2024): Journal of Educational Thought
  5. Ongesa, C., Mbugua, K. & Maweu, J. 2023. Investigating the Critical Thinking Indicators in Kenya’s Basic Education Curriculum. Journal of Pedagogy, Andragogy and Heutagogy in Academic Practice (JPAHAP)ISSN: 2708261X,Vol 4. No.2 (2023) pp1-20
  6. Jacinta Mwende Maweu. 2020.“Fake Elections”? Cyber Propaganda, Disinformation and the 2017 General Elections in Kenya, African Journalism Studies, DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2020.1719858 (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23743670.2020.1719858)
  7. Maluvu ZM, Oludhe C, Kisangau P, Maweu MJ. 2023. Analysis of rainfall and temperature trends and their implications on green gram production in the arid and semi-arid lands of Kenya. Science Letters 2023; 11(2):70- 82 (https://thesciencepublishers.com/science_letters/v11i2abstract4.html)
  8. Jacinta Mwende Maweu, 2019. Community Media: Building Trust and Resilience in Kenyan Post-Election Conflicts. In African Conflict & Peace-building Review, Volume 9, Number 2, Fall 2019, pp. 9-32 (Indiana University Press https://muse.jhu.edu/article/745406/pdf).
  9. Muchiri,P., Maweu,J., Karanja, F & Ogara, W. 2019. Prioritizing climate-smart Agriculture adaptation options: The case of smallholder farmers at Wiyumiririe, Laikipia County, Kenya. SSRG International Journal of Agriculture & Environment Science 6(6), 15-27(https://www.internationaljournalssrg.org/IJAES/paper-details?Id=227)
  10. Muchiri, P., Karanja, F., Ogara, W., & Maweu, J. 2020. Analysis of historical rainfall variability, droughts and wet seasons. A case of Wiyumiririe Laikipia County. Journal of Sustainability, Environment and Peace, 3(1), 15-20(https://uonjournals.uonbi.ac.ke/ojs/index.php/jsep/article/view/267)
  11. Muchiri,P., Ogara,W., Maweu, J  & Karanja, F. 2020. A Climate-Smart Agriculture approach using Double Digging, Zai pits and Aquacrop Model in rain fed Sorghum cultivation at Wiyumiririe location of Laikipia County,Kenya. Africa Journal of Physical Sciences Vol.4 http://journals.uonbi.ac.ke/index.php/ajps/index ISSN2313-3317
  12. Maweu, J.M. 2017. “Peace Propaganda”? The Application of Chomsky’s Propaganda Model to the Daily Nation’s Coverage of the 2013 Kenyan Elections”in Communicatio, 43:2, 168-186, DOI:10.1080/02500167.2017.1319873
  13. Herman Wasserman and Jacinta Mwende Maweu, 2014.  ‘The freedom to be silent? Market pressures on journalistic normative ideals at the Nation Media Group in Kenya’ in Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 4, Issue 142, (29 Sept. 2014) pp. 1-13 DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2014.928277
  14. Herman Wasserman and Jacinta Mwende Maweu 2014. “The tension between ethics and ethnicity: Examining journalists’ ethical decision-making at the Nation Media Group in Kenya”, in Journal of African Media Studies, Volume 6, Issue 2 2014 pp. 165- 181. Cover date June 2014 (http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=2712/)
  15. Maweu, J.M. 2014. “A Clash between Journalistic and Capitalist Values? How Advertisers Meddle in Journalists’ Decisions at the Nation Media Group in Kenya” Journal of African Media Studies, Volume 6, Issue 1 pp. 27-43, Cover Date: March 2014 (http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=2660/)
  16. Maweu J.M. 2014. Selling Audiences to Advertisers? The Hypercommercialism of News Content In News Media In Kenya (The case of the Daily Nation and The Standard Newspapers). Conference Proceedings Series 40 (March 2014) of the International Conference on Media, Culture and Education, held in November, 23-25th, 2010 at the School of Arts and Humanities, Meknes, Morocco, pp. 273-287
  17. Maweu J.M. 2013.  ‘The Ethnic Hate Speech was Networked: What Social Media Political Discussions Reveal about the 2013 General Elections in Kenya’ in index.Comunicación Journal a special edition on “New (?) African communication environment: A contribution to the Study of Communication in Africa”, Vol 3, No 2 (2013), pp. 37-52
  18. Maweu, J.M. 2015. ‘The Relevance of Philosophy in Human Development’ in Polylog. Zeitschrift für interkulturelles Philosophieren, No. 33 (August 2015), pp. 9-20.
  19. Maweu, J.M. 2013. ‘A Critical Assessment of Odera Oruka’s Theory of Punishment’ in Thought and Practice: A Journal of the Philosophical Association of Kenya (PAK)
  20. New Series, Vol.4 No.2, April 2013, pp.97-109 (http://ajol.info/index.php/tp/index)
  21. Maweu, J.M. 2012. ‘The Morality of Profit In Business:  Transforming Waste Into Wealth Through The Iko Toilet Business Venture In Nairobi, Kenya’ in Thought and Practice, New Series, Vol.4 No.1,pp. 75-89 (http://ajol.info/index.php/tp/index)
  22. Maweu, J.M. 2012. ‘Indigenous Ecological Knowledge and Modern Western Ecological Knowledge: Complementary not Contradictory’ in Thought and Practice, Vol.3 No.2, December, 2011, pp.35-47 (http://ajol.info/index.php/tp/index)
  1. Maweu, Jacinta. 2022. Media, Ethnicity and Electoral Conflicts in Kenya. Rowman &Littlefield: Lexington Books (https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793612366/Media-Ethnicity-and-Electoral-Conflicts-in-Kenya)
  2. Abosede, O.B., Mahfouz, A.A.. Shittu, R,. Maweu, J.M. and Githigaro, J.M. 2022. Managing Violent Religious Extremism in Fragile States Building Institutional Capacity in Nigeria and Kenya. Routledge: London (https://www.routledge.com/Managing-Violent-Religious-Extremism-in-Fragile-States-Building-Institutional-Capacity-in-Nigeria-and-Kenya/Babatunde-Adedimeji-Raji-Maweu-MwangiGithigaro/p/book/9781032111124)
  3. Maweu, Jacinta., & Mare, Admire. (Eds.) 2021. Media, Conflict and Peacebuilding in Africa: Conceptual and Empirical Considerations (1st ed.). Routledge (https://www.routledge.com/Media-Conflict-and- Peacebuilding-in-Africa-Conceptual-and-Empirical Considerations/MaweuMare/p/book/9780367726508) https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429344862
  4. Jacinta Mwende Maweu. 2025. Digital Populism, propaganda and the construction of electoral legitimacy in the 2022 Presidential elections in Kenya. Erica Guevara and Anais Theviot (eds) Elections and Social Networks around the World. London: Rotledge p. 260-275 ISBN 9781032572307 https://www.routledge.com/Elections-and-Social-Networks-around-the-World/Guevara-Theviot/p/book/9781032572307?srsltid=AfmBOooC_0Ph6zxMCxztD_0-GVEafeXHMy6O-ihX_gVK_UxbYOT8UsDg
  5. Jacinta Maweu. 2024. Undermining Democracy through Social Media. The Impact of Disinformation in the 2017 Elections in Kenya in Duncan Omanga, Admire Mare and Pamela Mainye eds). Digital technologies, elections and Campaigns in Africa. Pp.109-121. London: Routledge. ISBN 9781032551166 (https://www.routledge.com/Digital-Technologies-Elections and-Campaigns-in-Africa/Omanga-Mare-Mainye/p/book/9781032551166)
  6. Maweu, Jacinta. 2023. ‘Election, violence and political legitimation in Africa’ in Uchenna Okeja (eds). The Routledge Handbook of African Political Philosophy, pp. 256-267. London: Routledge. eBook ISBN 9781003143529 (https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-African-Political Philosophy/Okeja/p/book/9780367561536)
  7. Jacinta Maweu and Admire Mare. 2022. Citizen Journalism, electoral conflict and peace-building processes in Kenya and Zimbabwe in The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism edited by Stuart Allan. Routledge(https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-News-and-Journalism/Allan/p/book/9781032005850)
  8. Jacinta Maweu. 2022. Networking Aloneness? Social disconnection in a Socially Connected Media world in Ricarda Drueke and Gmainer Franz (eds) Communication and Media in the Cultural Industry: Life, World and Politics: 195- 209, Peter Lang
  9. Maweu, Jacinta. 2021. ‘Catalysts of conflict or messengers of peace? Promoting interfaith dialogue between Christians and Muslims in Kenya through the media’ in Jacinta Maweu & Admire Mare (Eds.)Media, Conflict and Peacebuilding in Africa: Conceptual and Empirical Considerations (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429344862 pp.113-126
  10. Maweu, Jacinta and Mare, Admire. 2021. ‘Changing the tide: Re-examining the interplay of media, conflict and peacebuilding in Africa’ in Jacinta Maweu & Admire Mare (Eds.). Media, Conflict and Peace building in Africa: Conceptual and Empirical Considerations (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429344862 pp.  1-16Nic Cheeseman,
  11. Jacinta Maweu and Seth Ouma. 2019. Peace, But at What Cost? Media Coverage of Elections and Conflict in Kenya in Media, Communication and the Struggle for Democratic Change: Case studies on Contested Transitions. Voltmer, K., Stremlau, N., Christensen, C., Thomass, B., Vladisavljevic, N., Wasserman, H. eds.Palgrave. 85-105.DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-16748-6(https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-16748-6)
  12. Jacinta Mwende Maweu, 2019. ‘Still Manufacturing Consent in the Digital era: Disinformation,‘Fake News’ and Propaganda in the 2017 Elections in Kenya’. Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent. Alan Macleod Ed. London: Routledge, pp.141-153. DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9780429430329. eBook ISBN 9780429430329 (https://www.routledge.com/Propaganda-in-the-Information-Age-Still-Manufacturing-Consent/MacLeod/p/book/9781138366404)
  13. Jacinta Mwende Maweu and Chris Paterson, 2019. Minding the Gap? The Media and the realization of SDG 13 on climate action and change in Kenya. In Maano Ramutsindela and David Mickler, Africa and the Sustainable Development Goals. Switzerland: Springer international publishing AG.( https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-14857-7)
  14. Maweu, Jacinta 2019. Unworthy Victims? The media, politics and the search for Justice through the International Criminal Court in Kenya’ in Reporting Human Rights, Conflicts and Peacebuilding: Critical and Global Perspectives in Shaw Ibrahim and Selvarajah Senthan Eds. Palgrave Macmillan.169-185. ISBN 978-030-10719-2
  15. Jacinta Mwende Maweu, 2020. ‘Towards a peace and human rights approach to Journalism: In search of social justice in post-conflict situations in Africa’ in Ogenga Fredrick ed. East Africa Peace Journalism: A Manual for Media Practitioners. London: Routledge (https://www.routledge.com/Peace-Journalism-in-East-Africa-A-Manual-for-Media-Practitioners/Ogenga/p/book/9781032338279)
  1. Maweu J. M.2018.’The Relevance of Odera Oruka’s Parental Earth Ethics as an Eco-Philosophy’ in Oduor M.J.  Nyarwath O.,Owakah F. eds,  Odera Oruka in the Twenty-first Century Kenyan Philosophical Studies, II. The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy: Washington, D.C.pp.303-315
  2. Maweu, J.M. 2018.‘Equality, Difference and the Complementarity of African and Western Philosophy’ in Thinking Polyloguous: Considerations Concerning An Intercultural-Philosophical Minimal Rule by Franz Gmainer-Pranzl and Britta Saal  (eds), pp. 273-285
  3. Maweu, J.M and Ndohvu, J.B. 2017. ‘A case of Voice Poverty? Towards a new Paradigm in the fight against Poverty in Kenya’ in Poverty and Human Rights: East African Experiences. Baard, Andreassen, JB, Ndhovu and Tiberius Barasa (Eds) Nairobi: Focus Publishers Ltd. pp. 175-187
  4. Maweu,  J.M. 2016. ‘Journalists’ and Public Perceptions of the Politics of China’s Soft Power in Kenya under the “Look East” Foreign Policy’ in China’s media and soft power in Africa: Promotion and perceptions. Zhang, X., Wasserman, H. and Mano, W. (Eds.). New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp.123-134
  5. Maweu, J.M. 2013. ‘Media Liberalization in Kenya: Who benefits what?’  In Olatunji, Rotimi and  Laninhun ,Beatrice eds. Dimensions of Advertising Theory and Practice in Africa. Senegal: Amalion Publishing, pp. 123- 134
  6. Silas Oriaso, Jacinta Maweu, Chris Paterson (forthcoming) Rural women, climate change and information ecosystems in Kenya in Katie McQuaid (eds) Intersectional Climate Justice in Eastern Africa. Bloomsbury publishers.
  1. Jacinta Maweu. Emergence of New Technologies and the Future of Electoral Integrity in Eastern Africa, October 1, 2025 https://masharikirpc.org/emergence-of-new-technologies-and-the-future-of-electoral-integrity-in-eastern-africa/
  2. Jacinta Maweu. Dementia is on the rise but Patients and Care givers carry burden alone. The Standard, September 29, 2025
  3. Jacinta Mwende Maweu. 2024. Challenges Facing African Women Engaged in Research: Reflections on Managing The Work-Life Balance. AFRICAN PEACEBUILDING NETWORK APN LECTURE SERIES: NO. 11, Social Science Research Council (https://www.ssrc.org/programs/african-peacebuilding-network/apn-lecture-series/)
  4. Sisanda N., Christina, C.M,. Jacinta, M. 2024. 100 years of radio in Africa: from propaganda to people’s power,  February 12, 2024. https://theconversation.com/100-years-of-radio-in-africa-from-propaganda-to-peoples-power-222798
  5. Jacinta Mwende Maweu. 2020. How community radio has contributed to building peace: a Kenyan case study. https://theconversation.com/how-community-radio-has-contributed-to-building-peace-a-kenyan-case-study-141622, July 9, 2020.
  6. Jacinta Maweu. 2022. “Societal Stigma Major Obstacle to the fight against Dementia”. The Standard. Tuesday, October 4, 2022
  7. Jacinta Maweu. 2022. Stop stigma on dementia. In Daily Nation, Wednesday, September 21, 2022
  8. Jacinta Maweu. 2022. Implement action plan on dementia as WHO suggests in Daily Nation, August 05, 2022.
  9. Maweu, J.M. 2017.The Ethnicity factor and the Risk of conflict in the 2017 Kenyan Elections‟ in Kujenga Amani, a digital platform of the Social Science Research Council, August, 2017
  10. Maweu, J.M. 2016. “Kill Us Together or Leave Us Alone”: The Beginning of the End of Al-Shabaab Menace in Kenya in Kujenga Amani, a digital platform of the Social Science Research Council, February, 2016.