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Title
Mr.
Firstname
Benjamin
Middlename
Lesele
Lastname
Janie
Position
Lecturer
Department
Office
Block 201 Office 51
Phone
+267 355 2563
Professional Qualifications
M.A. University of London (1989)
P.G.D.E (Post 4844³ÉÈËÃâ·Ñ¸£Àû Diploma in Education) 4844³ÉÈËÃâ·Ñ¸£Àû (1987)
B.A. (Humanities) 4844³ÉÈËÃâ·Ñ¸£Àû (1986)
Brief Biography
Mr. Benjamin Lesele Janie teaches in the department of African Languages and Literature at the 4844³ÉÈËÃâ·Ñ¸£Àû. He is a poet and has a passion for creative writing, performance arts, oral literature and cultural studies.
Mr. Janie holds an M.A. from the University of London(S.O.A.S).He is a member of the Setswana Vehicular Cross-border Languages commission of ACALAN (African Union Commission). He is a co-author a play, A kind of Justice and an anthology of African poetry written in English , Ceremony of the Word . His Setswana poems appears in anthologies by K.Mogapi.
Teaching Areas
- Â Oral literature
- Cultural Studies
- Â African Poetry
- Ìý°Õ³ó±ð²¹³Ù°ù±ð
- Â Creative Writing
- African Written Lierature
Research Areas
- African poetry
- Â African ritual studies
- Oral literature
- Culture
- Performance studies
Postgraduate Supervision Areas
- African poetry
- African ritual
- African theatre
- African oral literature
Selected Publications
- B. Seboni & B.Janie (2015) Ceremony of the Word .Petlo Literary Arts Trust: Gaborone. Â
- Mtubani.V.C.D. & B. Janie (1996) A Kind of Justice. Botsalano Press: Gaborone.
- Ìý´³²¹²Ô¾±±ð.µþ.³¢. Social Commentary, Change and Innovation in Traditional Popular Guitar Music in Botswana in Tumedi.S.M.,Nhlekisana. R. O. B and Ndana. N. (2010) Lips & Pages: Botswana Traditional Music as Socio-Political Commentary. Pentagon Publishers: Gaborone