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Meshack Asare

Meshack Asare is one of Africa's top children's writers and illustrators, and has won numerous awards including The Noma Award for Publishing in Africa. 1982 and the 1999 Toyota/Children's Literature Foundation Best Picture Story Book Illustrator's award, the 1999 Unesco First Prize for Children and Young People's Literature in the Service of Tolerance.

Meshack Asare, born 1945 in Ghana, studied Fine Arts at the College of Art in Kumasi and taught in Ghana for 12 years between 1967 and 1979. During that period, he took an extension course in Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin.

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Nigerian writer Chukwuemeka Ike was awarded the 2008 Fonlon-Nichols Award at the African Literature Association meeting in Illinois during April. Previous winners of the award include Niyi Osundare, Ken Saro-Wiwa, and Wole Soyinka.

Issa G. Shivji

Issa G. Shivji

Issa G. Shivji is one of Africa's leading experts on law and development issues. Shivji has served as advocate of the high court and the Court of Appeal of Tanzania since 1977 and advocate of the high court in Zanzibar since 1989. He has taught and worked in universities all over the world, including the University of Zimbabwe, the University of Warwick, the University of Hong Kong and El Colegio De Mexico. He is a prolific writer and researcher, producing books, monographs and articles, as well as a weekly column printed in national newspapers.

Books authored by Issa G. Shivji

The Concept of Human Rights in Africa

ISBN 9781870784023 | 136 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 1989 | CODESRIA, Senegal | Paperback

Constitutional and Legal System of Tanzania

A Civics Sourcebook

Issa G. Shivji, Hamudi I. Majamba

ISBN 9789987417315 | 330 pages | 229 x 152 mm | 2000 | Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, Tanzania | Paperback

Let the People Speak

Tanzania Down the Road to Neo-Liberalism

ISBN 9782869781832 | 320 pages | 229 x 152 mm | 2006 | CODESRIA, Senegal | Paperback

Pan-Africanism or Pragmatism

Lessons of the Tanganyika-Zanzibar Union

ISBN 9789987449996 | 336 pages | 229 x 152 mm | 2008 | Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, Tanzania | Paperback

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