People Associated with the University of Malawi - University of Malawi Alumni, Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, Thomas John Bisika, Billy Abner Mayaya (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: University of Malawi Alumni, Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, Thomas John Bisika, Billy Abner Mayaya, Maxwell Mkwezalamba, Samson Kambalu, Frank Chipasula, Steve Dick Tennyson Matenje. Excerpt: Paul Tiyambe Zeleza (born 1955 in Harare) is a Malawian historian, literary critic, novelist, short-story writer and blogger at The Zeleza Post - . He is currently (2009) president of the African Studies Association. He has most recently been named as the next Dean of the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts at Loyola Marymount University. Zeleza was born in Salisbury, Rhodesia, now Harare, Zimbabwe, in May 1955, of Malawian parents. His parents returned to Malawi in 1956 before returning to Zimbabwe in 1972. Zeleza attended primary school (19611968) and secondary school (19681972) in the cities of Lilongwe and Blantyre in Malawi. He attended college at the University of Malawi (19721976) where he received his BA with Distinction, majoring in History and English. He served as a Staff Associate at the University of Malawi's Chancellor College from 19761977 before he proceeded to Britain for his graduate studies. He earned an MA in African History and International Relations at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies and the London School of Economics and Political Science (19771978), then a Ph.D. in economic history at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (19781982). Upon completing his Ph.D. in 1982, Zeleza took up an appointment as a Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica where he spent two years. He relocated to Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya in August 1984, the country on which he had done his Ph.D. dissertation and where he had spent a year between 197... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5075939