Prof Peter Kimani is a founding faculty member of the Graduate School of Media and Communications. An award-winning journalist and author, he has put in 20 years on Kenya’s vibrant national press, rising to senior editor at The Standard. His work has also appeared in The Guardian, The New African, and Sky News, among others. As a writer and columnist for the Daily Nation, Peter toured Kenya and the region extensively, covering conflicts from Darfur to Somalia, while documenting reconstruction efforts, from South Sudan to Somaliland. He is the author of three novels, most recently, Dance of the Jakaranda, a historical novel due out next February by Akashic Books of New York.