Taban Lo Liyong

- Prof Lo Liyong is a South Sudanese poet, academic and writer of fiction and literary criticism. He wrote, with Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Henry Owuor-Anyumba, ‘On the Abolition of the English Department’, which forever changed the teaching of literature at the University of Nairobi and, by extension, Kenya. His ‘Another Last Word’ and ‘Words that Melt A Mountain’ were published by East African Educational Publishers, of which Chakava was Founder and Chairman.