Osabuohien P. Amienyi is Professor and Chair of Media Department at Arkansas State University in the U.S. He holds a Ph.D. in Communication from Bowling Green University, Ohio, USA. He was a film producer and videographer in Nigeria and worked in radio and television in the U.S. His research on national development has appeared in a variety of national and international publications. He is author of the book, Communicating National Integration: Empowering Development in African Countries (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2005), and received a Fulbright Fellowship to teach and conduct research at The University of Malawi - The Polytechnic in 2005.  He became chair of the Department of Radio-Television in 2007.