Chacha Nyaigotti Chacha

Professor Chacha Nyaigotti-Chacha (born 1952) born in Kuria District, Nyanza Province is a Kenyan playwright and Swahili language educationalist, the executive secretary of the Inter-University Council for East Africa, and a former secretary of the Kenyan Higher Education Loans Board.

He was educated at Kenyatta College (S1) and BEd (Swahili Language) and later studied at Yale University, gaining a PhD in Swahili Language Linguistics. He has been a Tutorial Fellow and Lecturer in Swahili Language and Linguistics at Kenyatta University and later Egerton University in Kenya.

Books

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  Ushairi wa Abdilatif Abdalla: Sautiya Utetezi, Nyaigotti-Chacha, C., Dar es Salaam University Press (DUP), 1992. (Protest Theme in Swahili Poetry).


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  Traditional Medicine in Africa, Edited by Sindiga, Isaac, Nyaigotti-Chacha, C. and Kanunah, M. P., East African Educational Publishers, 1995. ISBN 9966-46-548-0


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  Mke Mwanza, Nyaigotti-Chacha, C., East Africa Education Publishers, 1997, (A Swahili storybook)


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  Wingu Jeusi, Nyaigotti-Chacha, C., 1987, ISBN 9966-46-318-6


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  Hukumu, Nyaigotti-Chacha, C., Longman Kenya, 1992, ISBN 9966-49-742-0 / ISBN 9966-49-742-0


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  Marejeo, Kenya Lit. Bureau, 1986

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  The position of Kiswahili in Kenya, Nyaigotti-Chacha, C., University of Nairobi, Institute of African Studies, 1981


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  African Universities in the Twenty-first Century, Edited by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza Adebayo Olukoshi, Chapter 5: Public Universities, Private Funding: The Challenges in East Africa, Nyaigotti-Chacha, C., 2005


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  REFORMING HIGHER EDUCATION IN KENYA CHALLENGES, LESSONS AND OPPORTUNITIES, Nyaigotti-Chacha, C., Kenya August 2004