DR. ALBERT MOGAMBI MOINANI,

Dr. Albert Mogambi is a lecturer of Linguistics, School of Arts and Social Sciences at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Gaba Campus. He has lectured in Linguistics and Communications for over 10 years in various universities in Kenya. Dr. Mogambi has vast experience in the teaching of English as a second language and his passion for environmental conservation and human rights has yielded a number of scholarly articles in the field of ecolinguistics and political discourse. Dr. Albert Mogambi holds a Bachelor of Education (Arts) degree from Egerton University, a Master of Arts (Linguistics) from Egerton University and a Ph.D (Applied Linguistics) degree from Kisii University. He has attended and presented papers at many scientific conferences and has published a number of articles in both local and international refereed journals. His research interests are in ecolinguistics, political ecology, political discourse and human rights education. He is a member of the  International Ecolinguistics Association (IEA) and Amnesty International-Kenya (AIK).

• A critical analysis of emerging attitudes from the Mau Forest restoration discourse in Kenya. Nairobi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (2018). Link

• A critical analysis of political discourse during the 2010–14 Mau Forest restoration debate in Kenya. JESAR (2018) 4.

• Is Disease War? A critical analysis of the Covid-19 discourse in Kenya. International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, vol. 5, issue iii/March 2021. Link

• Language and ecology: A Systemic Functional Grammar analysis of the Mau Forest conservation discourse in Kenya. European Journal of Applied Linguistics Studies (June 2021). Link

• Language choice and the construction of forest ecology: Lessons from the Mau Forest restoration debate in Kenya. International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences, vol. 6, Nov-Dec 2021. Link

• Is Corona fiction or reality: A critical analysis of the Covid-19 discourse in Tanzania. Global Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, vol. 1, issue 1, May-June 2022. Link

• A linguistic analysis of inclusiveness and exclusion in Kenya’s Mau Forest conservation discourse. Language & Ecology (2023). Link

• The Birds Return, Language and Ecology – creative story. April 2023. Link

• Conceptualizing nationalism, revolution, and opposition in political discourse by use of metaphors: The case of Raila Odinga in Kenya. Journal of Languages and Linguistics, 2(1), 44-53. Link

• ‘Why should someone keep leaning on me?’ Re-defining conversational distances and touches in Kenyan women’s public transportation. International Journal of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics (forthcoming).