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Aaron Mushengyezi
Aaron Mushengyezi holds a Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut, USA and currently lectures at Makerere University, Uganda. His recent research, sponsored by the International Fellowships Program of the Ford Foundation and the African Humanities Program, has focused on collecting and translating children’s folklore forms into texts for schools in Uganda. He is currently coordinating a children's literature project funded by Development Partnerships in Higher Education (DelPHE), which trains teachers to write bilingual readers for use in the classroom. Aaron is the author of Twentieth Century Literary Theory (2003) and co-edited Africa in World Affairs (2004).
He has published several articles in journals and chapters in books, including Journal of African Cinemas, Journal of African Cultural Studies, Africa Today, and Africa: Communication Challenges in the 21st Century. He has contributed articles on African writers for children in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature (2006), as well as short stories in several anthologies.