Ndirangu Wachanga is a Kenyan and Associate Professor of media studies and information science, University of Wisconsin. He is an authorized documentary biographer. His documentary, Ali Mazrui: A Walking Triple Heritage, won the 2015 New York African Studies Book Award. Wachanga served as a Carnegie Fellow in 2018. He has given talks at Harvard, Princeton, Yale, SOAS, London School of Economics and is known globally for his work in preserving memory, ethics, race, representation and communication technologies.