Title/Qualifications: DR. PhD – Literature; M.A – Literature; B.Ed (English & Literature) – 1st Class honours Department/Unit/Section: Literature, Languages and Linguistics Contact Address: Kenyatta University, P.O. Box 43844-00100, Nairobi, Kenya Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Telephone: +254724296999 Position: Lecturer  Area of Specialization: Literature – African Literature, gender studies, literature and human rights Research Interests: Literature and human rights; education and early exposure to literature in native languages Download Cv

Publications

Articles presented to journals

• August 2019: Philosophy of Literature: The Aesthetics of Swahili Verb; The Horizon Journal of Philosophy
• 2019: Human rights and displacement in literature: the case of M. Mwangi’s Kill Me Quick and K. Kombani’s The Last Villains of Molo. Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies

Conference and Workshop papers

• September 2019: 1^st International Conference on Advanced research in Humanities and Social Sciences (ICAREHS): Paper; “Governance: Voices of Selected African Creative Artists”
• February 2019: International Mother Language Day (IMLD) Conference 2019: “Hallowing Mother Language and Cultural Diversity in Africa”; co-presented a paper ‘Something strange here; where language meets literature’.
• July 2018: Facilitated a workshop on academic and work-place writing skills
• September 10, 2013: East Africa at 50: A Celebration of Histories and Futures. Read a Paper “Kenya at Fifty: Stocktaking and Evaluation in Margaret Ogola’s Mandate of the People”

• August 2013: Participated in Africa Storybook Project pre-conference.

• July 2011: Core-facilitated a workshop on the teaching of Diploma in Education Life Skills Option at Marist International University College.
• June 2010: Participated in a 2-week Life Skills Workshop in Chennai, India.
• 12^th -17^th April, 2004: Attended a Workshop on Infusion of Human Rights in the National School Curricular.