Congratulations to our colleagues Jennifer Croft and Aron Aji, who are among those serving as judges for the National Book Awards this year, in their case in the category of translated literature.
- Africa
- Eastern Africa
- Kenya
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is senior lecturer in the department of literature and linguistics at the University of Nairobi, Kikuyu campus. She earned the M.A. and the Ph.D. in English from Atlanta University. She is a Fulbright scholar at the University of Iowa, with a research project gathering material for a book or series of books for children. She has been collecting children's literature from griots, babysitters, parents, grandparents, and other sources, and would like to produce a series to be published first in English, then in Kiswahili and other Kenyan dialects. Dr. Wanambisi's publications include critical articles on the poetry of Okot p'Bitek, and on the role of women in Africa. She was the 1994-95 recipient of the Research Competition on Gender Issues in Eastern Africa, with a study on The Marginalization of Kenyan Women Literary Writers.
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