John Kiarie Wa'Njogu
Director, Program in African Languages
Senior Lector, Kiswahili
     Specialization: Language education and sociolinguistics. Interests include foreign language curriculum development, teaching methodology, material development, and assessment. Other areas of interest are language planning, language and democracy, ethnicity, Kiswahili and other African literatures and literary criticism.






Sandra Sanneh
Senior Lector II, isiZulu
    Sandra Sanneh has been teaching isiZulu and other Southern African Languages and Literatures in the Yale Program in African Languages under the auspices of the Yale Council on African Studies since 1989.
    Sanneh grew up in South Africa speaking English, Afrikaans and Sesotho. She studied African Languages at the University of Witwatersrand and at the University of London´s School of Oriental and African Studies and has an M.A. in Linguistics from Yale.
    Courses: Sanneh teaches courses in Zulu Language and Literature through advanced level and offers tutorials in Sesotho, Afrikaans, Setswana and Chichewa. She also teaches a course for students in the Nursing and Medical Schools called Communication and Healing that is an introduction to the discourse of healing in Zulu language and culture.
    Web Materials: In collaboration with Dr. Audrey Nonhlanhla Mbeje (U. Pennsylvania), Sanneh created IsiZulu Sanamuhla (Contemporary Zulu), an online Zulu course for Elementary and Intermediate level students. The course is based on a series of everyday conversations with Zulu speakers filmed in and around Durban, South Africa. For access to the website contact african.studies@yale.edu.
    Research interests: Sanneh’s research interests are in codeswitching, in particular the fluid four-language argot of Soweto (is’Camtho), in the changing status and usage of local languages in contemporary South Africa, and in how linguistic etiquette (ukuhlonipha) impacts women’s access to healthcare.


Oluseye Adesola
Lector, Yoruba
     Oluseye Adesola is Lector of Yoruba.