Staff Profiles

M.A in English Literature (University of Warwick, UK)-1995

B.A. (English and History) (UB)-1993

HEDU Certificate (UB) 1994

Certificate in Journalistic and Creative Writing (University of Warwick) -2000

Certificate in American Studies (University of Western Michigan) -1999

Tiro Sebina joined the department of English, University of Botswana as Staff Development Fellow in 1993. He is a literature lecturer, a literary critic, a specialist in literary theories(classical and contemporary), a poet, a creative writing teacher and coach, a literary activist, a culture and arts journalist, book reviewer, a blogger and an editor. He is the coordinator of University of Botswana Writers' Workshop. He is a musician, he plays the guitar, piano and the saxophone. He is also a painter or fine/visual artist.  He has served as Chair of the Writer's Association of Botswana(WABO). He is a Trustee and Treasurer of the Bessie Head Heritage Trust. He is also a member of the Botswana Society for Jazz Education(BOSJE) as well as a member of Thapong Visual Arts Centre. His poems appear in publications as varied as: Dreams of Enduring Joy (2004). An Anthology of Botswana Poetry(2002), Mokwadi, Poetrymine, Avocado, Coventration (2004, CD Complitation), Marang, Mahube, Prairie Schooner, African Voices: Poetry &Tales(2019), Productive Rights in Poetry, Poetry in 1001 Languages(1998) and Badilisha Exchange. 

Literary Theories (Classical and Contemporary)

Literary Criticism

Modern Social and Cultural Critical Theories

Problems and Modes in Postcolonial Literatures

African Novel

Black British Literature

Caribbean Literature

African-American Literature

Creative Writing (Theory, Pedagogy and Practice)

Africana Philosophy

Life Writing (Memoirs,auto/Biographies,Travel Writing)

World Literatures

Research Methodologies in Literature

Literary Theories(Classical and Contemporary)

Modern Social and Cultural Critical Theories

Postcolonial Literature

Literary Criticism

The African Novel

Creative Writing

Life Writing

Journalistic Writing

Research Methodologies in Literature

World Literatures

Black British Literature

Caribbean Literature

African-American Literature

Sociology of Literature

Literary Theories 

Modern Social and Cultural Critical Theories

Problems and Modes in Postcolonial Literature

World Literatures

The African Novel

Research Methodologies in Literature

Africana Philosophies

African-American Literature

Caribbean Literature 

1. Sebina, T., Thekiso, E., & Otlogetswe, T., (2004). Dreams of Enduring Joy, Gaborone: Pentagon Publishers. ISBN 99912-4-4-8

2. Sebina, T., and Thekiso (eds.) (2007). Sunscapes: An Anthology of Short Stories. Gaborone: Pentagon Publishers. ISBN 99912-591-11-2

3. Sebina, T. , Seboni, B., Arua,A.E. & Bagwasi, M.M., (eds.) (2006) The Study and Use of English in Africa. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press. ISBN 1-84718-091.

4. Sebina, T., Badisang, B. & Modise, R.G. (eds.) 1998. Poetry in 1001 Languages. Gaborone: Writers Association of Botswana. ISBN 99912-0-247-1

5. Sebina, T. (2010) "Reconfiguring Subaltern Identities in Bessie Head's Maru in Contested Identities: Bessie Head, Maru and Basarwa/San: A Report from the Home Front, JALA: Journal of African Literature Association, Vol.4. NO.1. Winter/Spring pp.158-180.

6. Sebina, T. (2008). "Soiling Cultural Studies". Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, Vol.7.Nos.3-4 . pp229-233 -DOI 10-1163/156791408X37

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