Everyday Literacies in Africa

Alemayehu Hailu Gebre, Director of the Adult and Nonformal Education Association in Ethiopia (ANFEAE) has many years experience in adult learning and project coordination and management. Alemayehu has a diploma in Agriculture and a bachelor’s degree in Economics. He also holds a diploma in Community Development from the International Training Center of Hungary.

Alan Rogers is an adult educator based in the UK; he is Special Professor at the University of Nottingham and Honorary Professor at the University of East Anglia; formerly convenor of the Uppingham Seminars in Development. He has worked extensively in Africa and Asia and written widely on informal learning, adult literacy and non-formal education.

Brian Street is Professor of Language in Education at King’s College, London University and Visiting Professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania. He has a commitment to linking ethnographic-style research on the cultural dimension of language and literacy with contemporary practice in education and in development. He has undertaken anthropological fifi eld research and been consultant to projects in these fields in countries of both the North and South. He has just been awarded the National Reading Conference’s Distinguished Scholar Lifetime Achievement Award. He has published 18 books and 120 scholarly papers.

George Openjuru has a PhD in Adult Literacy Education from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in South Africa. He is a Lecturer and Acting Head, Department of Community Education and Extra-Mural Studies, Institute of Adult and Continuing Education, Makerere University. His focus in research is on literacy ethnography.