Jolly Mazimhaka

Jolly Mazimhaka was born in Uganda and attended the Trinity College Nnabingo. She has a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree in English Literature and a postgraduate diploma in Education from Kampala's Makerere University and a Master degree in Commonwealth Literature as well as a PhD in Renaissance Drama, with a focus on gender, class and race issues from the University of Saskatchewan.

She started her career teaching Literature and English at the Mount Saint Mary's College Namagunga in Uganda and at the Loreto Convent Girls School in Limuru, Kenya. She later was a lecturer in English at the University of Saskatchewan.

At the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) Jolly Mazimhaka occupied several positions, including:

• Lecturer in English
• Lecturer in Research Methodology
• Director: Academic Quality Assurance
• Acting Vice-Rector: Academic

At the National University of Rwanda (UNR) she was:

• Director: Academic Quality Assurance
• Director: University Teaching and Learning Enhancement

She is a member of the board of advisors of the Akilah Institute, a non-profit college for women in Kigali,[1] and board member of Equality Power, an initiative that supports ethical and diverse projects in Sub-Saharan Africa. She was president of the Rotary Club Kigali-Virunga.

• Jolly Mazimhaka: Coming Home. Oxford University Press 2004, ISBN 9780195732146.[2]
• Jolly Mazimhaka: Mutesi in Trouble. Oxford University Press 2004, ISBN 9780195732139.[2]
• Rebecca Schendel, Jolly Mazimhaka, Chika Ezeanya: Higher Education for Development in Rwanda. 2013, International Higher Education 70, p. 19ff

• CV of Jolly Mazimhaka on the website of Equality Power