Michael Andindilile (PhD) is an Associate Professor in Anglophone Literary and Postcolonial Studies. He holds an MPhil/PhD in English from Fordham University, New York; an MA in International Journalism from City, University of London; an MA in Information Studies and a BA from the University of Dar es Salaam (in English, Linguistics and Literature); a Diploma in Journalism from the Evelyn Hone College in Lusaka, Zambia. He has previously served as Dean of the University of Dar es Salaam’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication (SJMC) for two triennia.  Moreover, Prof. Andindilile had also worked as the Chief Sub-Editor for the Tanzania Daily News and as a reporter for the Times of Zambia. Besides teaching literature courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels and supervising doctoral students, he also serves as the Editor of Umma: The Journal of Contemporary Literature and the Creative Arts, jointly run by the departments of Literature and Creative Arts of the University of Dar es Salaam. In addition to numerous articles on Anglophone African literatures, he has also published a book entitled The Anglophone Literary Linguistic Continuum: English and Indigenous Languages in African Literary Discourse (African Humanities Book Series, NISC: Grahamstown, SA, 2018).