Team
Ruiz Cabrera, Sebastián
Email: sebaprensa@gmail.com
Research Interests: cinema & audiovisuals · communication for development · East Africa · Great Lakes · Kenya · structure of information
Biography
PhD Candidate in Journalism, Master in Social Science of Development: Cultures and Development in Africa, Master in International Relations and Bachelor in Journalism.
He has been main researcher of the Research and Documentation Center of the Instituto Cervantes and he has worked in the newsrooms of various Spanish newspapers reporting news about the East Africa region. He is cofunder on Wiriko, the first Spanish platform on African Arts & Cultures. He has filmed and edited documentary projects in Burundi, Cuba, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Spain, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda and Zanzibar.
Research topics: communication for development, structure of information, cinema & audiovisuals, conflicts, neoliberalism, international cooperation and China
Country/Regional specialisation: Kenya, East Africa, Great Lakes