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Linus Asong

Linus Asong was born in the South West Region of Cameroon in 1947. With a combined B.A honours in Education, in 1980 he entered the University of Windsor in Canada whence he graduated with a terminal degree in Creative Writing. He holds an M.A and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Alberta, in Edmonton Canada, and is presently Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Ecole Normale Superieure Bambili (University of Yaounde 1). Asong is a stand-up humorist, a consummate portrait painter, an accomplished literary scholar, and a celebrated prolific writer with over a dozen novels to his credit.

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Kimani Njogu

Kimani Njogu

Kimani Njogu, an Associate Professor of Kiswahili and African Languages, is a Director of Twaweza Communications and Africa Health and Development International (AHADI). He is a translator of significant works into Kiswahili and has been involved in developing socially committed entertainment programs globally. He has provided training on culturally sensitive and issue based entertainment programming in Kenya, Tanzania, Namibia, India, China, St. Lucia, Grenada, Madagascar, Peru, Pakistan, Palau, Nigeria, Laos, Mexico and Peru, among other countries. Kimani is also a writer, literary critic and columnist and his Kiswahili book Ufundishaji wa Fasihi: Nadharia na Mbinu on the teaching of literature won the 2000 Noma Award for Publishing in Africa.

Books edited by Kimani Njogu

Cultural Production and Social Change in Kenya

Building Bridges

Edited by Kimani Njogu, G. Oluoch-Olunya

ISBN 9789966974372 | 272 pages | 229 x 152 mm | 2007 | Twaweza Communications, Kenya | Paperback

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Culture, Entertainment and Health Promotion in Africa

Edited by Kimani Njogu

ISBN 9789966974327 | 230 pages | 229 x 152 mm | 2005 | Twaweza Communications, Kenya | Paperback

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Culture, Performance and Identity

Paths of Communication in Kenya

Edited by Kimani Njogu

ISBN 9789966724410 | 180 pages | 229 x 152 mm | 2008 | Twaweza Communications, Kenya | Paperback

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Defining Moments

Reflections on Citizenship, Violence and the 2007 General Elections in Kenya

Edited by Kimani Njogu

ISBN 9789966028310 | 212 pages | 210 x 148 mm | 2011 | Twaweza Communications, Kenya | Paperback

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Ethnic Diversity in Eastern Africa

Opportunities and Challenges

Edited by Kimani Njogu, Kabiri Ngeta

ISBN 9789966724489 | 254 pages | 234 x 156 mm | 2010 | Twaweza Communications, Kenya | Paperback

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Getting Heard

[Re]claiming Performance Space in Kenya

Edited by Kimani Njogu

ISBN 9789966724434 | 204 pages | 229 x 152 mm | 2008 | Twaweza Communications, Kenya | Paperback

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Good Governance and Development

Toward Quality Leadership in Kenya

Edited by Kimani Njogu

ISBN 9789966974358 | 260 pages | 229 x 152 mm | 2007 | Twaweza Communications, Kenya | Paperback

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Healing the Wound

Personal Narratives about the 2007 Post-Election Violence in Kenya

Edited by Kimani Njogu

ISBN 9789966724458 | 332 pages | 234 x 156 mm | 2009 | Twaweza Communications, Kenya | Paperback

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Songs and Politics in Eastern Africa

Edited by Kimani Njogu, Hervé Maupeu

ISBN 9789987449422 | 420 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2007 | Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, Tanzania | Paperback

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