Kimani Njogu Editor & Author

Kimani Njogu is Director of Twaweza Communications and former associate professor of African languages at Kenyatta University in Kenya. Kimani Njogu was formerly Associate Professor of KiSwahili and African Languages, Kenyatta University, Nairobi. He has done linguistic research among Swahili of Kenya, and is a writer and producer of social change soap operas in several African, Caribbean and Asian countries. His main publications include The Teaching of Literature: Theory and Method, 1999 (in KiSwahili and awarded the Noma Award for Publishing); Reading Poetry as Dialogue: An East African Poetic Tradition, 2004; and Zilazala (A Play), 2006. John Middleton was Professor of Anthropology and Religious Studies at Yale University. Professor Middleton's research interests focussed on social anthropological research in Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana, Zanzibar and Kenya. He held positions at University College; the School of Oriental and Asian Studies (SOAS), University of London; and at Cape Town, Northwestern, New York, Frankfurt and Yale Universities. Professor Middleton was formerly Editor of Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute (1972-79), and edited the Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara (New York, 1997) and the New Encyclopedia of Africa (Michigan, 2007).