Masumi Hashimoto Odari P.O. Box 30197 modari@uonbi.ac.ke EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND December 2010 September 2002 December 2001 December 1988 March 1986 (Kenya) Doctor of Philosophy in Literature The Treatment of Social Injustices in Charles Dickens s Works The research involved how Charles Dickens portrayed social injustices of the nineteenth century Victorian Era in his novels. School of Law (Kenya) Diploma in Law (Kenya) LL.B Honors (Kenya) M.A. Literature The Use of Satire in Wole Soyinka s The Interpreters The research involved analyzing Wole Soyinka s use of satire in his novel, The Interpreters Soka University (Japan) B.A. English Literature PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE January 2013 Present June 2011 Present November 2008 present Associate, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, University of Nairobi Senior Lecturer Notary Public 1
June 2008 present June 2003 present October 2002 September 2012 July 1996 Present Commissioner for Oaths Advocate, High Court of Kenya Part-time lecturer, Strathmore University, University of Nairobi Lecturer October 1990 July 1996 June 1989 October 1990, University of Nairobi Assistant Lecturer Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund (presently Japan Bank of International Cooperation) Assistant Administrator to the Chief Representative 1989 to date Translation and interpretation for the Embassy of Japan, JICA, JBIC, among other organizations Other Duties June 2014 Present May 2014 Present October 2013 Present October 2013 - June 2014 June 2013 Present April 2011 March 2014 October 2007 July 2008 Chair, Women Division Advisor, Soka Gakkai International of Kenya Member, KEMRI IP and TT Committee Examinations Officer, Department of Literature Chair, CHSS Health and Safety Committee Chair, Faculty of Arts Welfare Committee Director, Club Project Committee, Rotary Club, Westlands 2
January 2007 Present February 2006 December 2006 October 2005 February 2006 June 2005 May 2006 October 2004 September 2005 April 2004 May 2014 January 2003 Present October 2003 September 2004 Welfare/Seminar Officer, Department of Literature Assistant Examinations Officer, Department of Literature Literature Students Association Matron, Vice Chairlady, Japanese Language Teachers Association Examinations Officer, Department of Literature Women s Division Chief, Soka Gakkai International of Kenya Editor, The Nairobi Journal of Literature, Welfare Officer, 1996 and 1997 Judge, Japanese Language Speech Contest at Utalii College 1992 1997 Taught non-credit Japanese language Course to Students PUBLICATIONS Odari, H. Masumi Africa, Shining as the Continent of the 21 st Century. World Tribune Vol. 4074 September 2016. Odari, H. Masumi Promoting Peace Through Korean Children War Stories: A Case Study of When My Name Was Kioko And Year Of Impossible Goodbyes in The Nairobi Journal of Literature Special Edition 2015. Nairobi:, University of Nairobi, 2015. Telling the Truth to Children to Create a Better Society in Belief Issue 003 August- 3
September 2010. Nairobi: Canon Literature Media, 2010. The Role of Women in Peace Making: Daisaku Ikeda s Re-Interpretation of the Role of Women in the 21 st Century in Daisaku Ikeda and Voices for Peace from AFRICA. Nairobi: Kenya Literature Bureau, 2008. Women Literature in Japan s Heian Era:A Study of The Kagero Diary. in The Nairobi Journal of Literature No. 5 March 2007. Nairobi:,, 2007 A Christmas Carol: Teaching Children to be Just and Compassionate. in The Nairobi Journal of Literature No. 4 March 2006. Nairobi:,, 2006. Introduction to Poetry. Distant Learning Course Book for, August 2006. Self Identity: Reflections on Yusuf K. Dawood in The Nairobi Journal of Literature No. 1. March 2003 Nairobi:, University of Nairobi, 2003. An Overview of the Achievements of Daisaku Ikeda in Daisaku Ikeda and Africa: Reflections by Kenyan Writers. Nairobi: Nairobi University Press, 2001. Vocational Training Guidebook: Kenya. Chiba: Yamashita Hiroshi, 1996. PRESENTATIONS 28-29 th June 2017 Nurturing Global Citizens Through Exchange Programs: A Case Study of and Soka University Japan Exchange program (Multi Media University) 4
20 September 1 st October 2016 Value Creating Education for Sustainable Development Conference (University of Nairobi) 12-13 June 2016 Africa, Shining as the Continent of the 21 st Century (World Summit of Educators, Soka University of America) August 2015 December 2014 December 2013 July 2013 April 2013 Aug 2007 June 2007 March 2007 Lecture at Open Campus Day (Soka University, Japan) Promoting Peace Through Korean Children War Stories: A Case Study of When My Name Was Kioko And Year Of Impossible Goodbyes (paper presented at the International Conference of Korean Studies at Nairobi Safari Club) Nurturing Students to Become Global Citizen (paper presented at the Education, Youth and Peace Symposium at University of Nairobi) Education in the 21st Century Africa: Value Creating Education in Nurturing a Culture of Peace (paper presented at the International Conference on Education in Africa at Riara University) The Japanese Spirit Found in Lafcadio Hearn s Stories paper presented at the Seminar Children s Stories: A Way of Talking to the Children s Hearts. A Case Study of The Princess of the Desert Kingdom and Kirikou and The Sorceress. Paper presented at the International Writers Conference held in Nairobi. Daisaku Ikeda s Reinterpretation of Women in the 21 st Century. Paper presented at the Writers Association of Kenya Seminar held in Nairobi. 10 th Century Female Writers: The Diary of Kagero. Paper presented at the Department of Literature seminar. 5
October 2004 The Quest for Justice and the Lawyer s Dilemma: Time for a Paradigm Shift. Paper presented at the Strathmore University Ethics Conference held at Strathmore University CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ATTENDED December 2013 October 2013 July 2013 September 2012 May 2012 March 2011 February 2011 July 2010 April 2009 August 2007 Education, Youth and Peace Symposium (Organized by and Soka Univeristy, Japan) Exchange Programme to Soka University with SONU Representatives International Conference on Education in Africa (Organized by Riara University) Stakeholders Workshop (Organized by Faculty of Arts Welfare Committee) Occupational First Aid Course (Organized by Faculty of Arts & Kenya Red Cross) Departmental Curriculum Development Workshop in Mtwapa (Organized by the ) Anti-Plagiarism and Referencing Skills Workshop (Organized by Kenya Library Association in collaboration with INASP) Departmental Curriculum Development Workshop at KIE (Organized by the ) Research Methodology Training Workshop (organized by Kenya Oral Literature Association) International Writers Conference at Safari Park Hotel (organized by the Korean Writers Association and KWANI) 6
October 2005 Programme for Training Lecturers in Pedagogy (Organized by University of Nairobi) PhD. SUPERVISION 2017 Gloria Ongoing 2017 Shadrack Mwanthi Ongoing 2017 Omutiti M.A. SUPERVISION 2016 Abdiwali Ali Shiek Mohamed: Narrative Strategies and the Image on an Emancipated Somali Woman in Nuruddin Farah s From a Crooked Rib 2016 Murage Peter Ndambiri: A Study of the Child Character in Selected Works of Yukio Mishima (Kenyatta University) 2016 Lubanga Angeline Asiko: Moment of Truth: A Novella 2015 Lynder Christine Achieng Oketch Quest Motif: A Search for Identity and Justice in Mukoma wa Ngugi s Nairobi Heat 2015 Owiti Tom Odhiambo 2014 Munene Bancy Wanjiru 2014 Ochieng Gilbert Oduor 2010 Eric Cheruiyot Maritim: The Enigmatic Feminine Character in Kawabata: A Study of Selected Works 2009 Thiongo Joseph Kanyi: A Critical Explication of Selected Songs by John de Mathew 2008 Irene Wainaina: Sins on the Land 2006 Michelle Nthumba Nenkai Nalama: Education in Maasai Oral Narratives 2005 Mwai F. Karekia: The Portrayal of the Doctor Character in Yusuf Dawood s Off My Chest and No Strings Attached 2004 Peter Kamande Mbugua: Issues of Identity in Ole Kulet s Is it Possible? and To Become a Man 7
2003 Ocham Collins Olande: The Journey Motif in Edward Brathwaite s The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy 2002 Everleen N. Makhanu: The Treatment of the Theme of Childhood in Njabulo S. Ndebele s Fools and Other Stories 2002 Omolo George Odhiambo: The Aesthetic Confluence of Texual Deixis and Narrative Lexies in Wole Soyinka s The Interpreters 2000 Makau Kitata: Narrative Techniques in Wole Soyinka s The Interpreters 2000 Simon Peter Victor Otieno: In Search of an Equilibrium: A study of Gender Roles and Style in Drama Festival Plays 1999 Elizabeth Ogweno: Satire in Okot P Bitek s Songs: An Analysis of Song of Lawino, Song of Ocol and Song of Malaya 1997 Peter Anyanga Wasamba: Language in Marjorie Oludhe MacGoye s Fiction 1996 Philo Ikonya: Marjorie Oludhe MacGoye and the Quest for Freedom: A Study of Coming to Birth, Song of Nyarloka and Other Poems MEMBERSHIP 2013 Present Chartered Institute of Arbitrators 2006 Present Rotary Club Westlands 2003 - Present East African Law Society 2003 Present Law Society of Kenya 2002 Present Kenya Japanese Language Teachers Association 1999 Present Kenya Writer s Association 1998 Present Kenya Oral Literature Association 1999 2000 Students Association of Law 1992 Present Soka Gakkai International of Kenya 8
RELEVANT SKILLS Languages Computer Skills English and Japanese - Fluent French and Kiswahili Basic MS Word Web Site Design Power Point Email Internet REFEREES 1. Prof. Henry Indangasi 2. Prof. D.H. Kiiru 3. Prof. Peter Wasamba Chairman 9