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Jack D. Rollins

Jarollin 15:54, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

Jack Drake Rollins (1943) is a Swahili/Arabic Scholar, Professor in the Hutton Honors College, and Adjunct Professor of African Studies, English, and Comparative Literature at Indiana University--Bloomington. He was also PrincipalJarollin 15:54, 16 August 2009 (UTC), President, and CEO of The Trade Africa International Corporation and Trade Africa Entertainment, which acted as the exclusive licensee and distributor of Warner Brothers, MGM/UA Home Video/RCA/Columbia Home Video, Orion Pictures Home Video, Hanna-Barbara Home Video, Turner Pictures Home Video, Marvel Entertainment, Mad Magazine, DC Comics, EC Comics, television programming and other American and European media in several Africa countries. With the MPAA and the MPEAA he helped to influence changes in Kenya's copyright law. His degrees include: BA (University of Michigan), MA (Indiana University), MFA (University of Iowa), and a PhD (Indiana University has taught in several American, European, and African Universities, as well as serving as Associate Dean of the Graduate School at Indiana State University. He is the winner of both the Fulbright-Hays Award for teaching at the National University of Gabon, and a Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship that allowed him to finish his A History of Swahili Prose from Earliest Times to the End of the Nineteenth Century. Leiden: E.J.Brill, 1983Bold text. Sample reviews of this literary histoy include, " work He has published and presented many scholarly articles in the United States, Europe, and Africa. His most recent publication is a paper delivered at Yale University in October of 2008, entitled "Arabic, Swahili, and Sheng: The Power of Orthographic Code-Switching in Kenya." (Yale University Press, 2009).

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LITERATURE:

Rollins, J.D., A History of Swahili Prose, Part One. From Earliest Times to the End of the Nineteenth Century. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1983. Rollins, J.D., A History of Swahili Prose, Part Two: Colonial and Post-Colonial Alterites. Leiden: In preparation for E. J. Brill Since its publication, Part One, has been re-issued as an E-book on Amazon. It has been cited 1,053 times in subsequent studies of Swahili Literature, some of which follow below.

RECENT CITATIONS IN SELECTED WORKS Mazrui ,Alamin. Swahili Beyond the Boundaries: Literature, Language, and Identity Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Research in International Studies (8) 2007 Hunwick, John. Arabic Literature of Africa Project and Publication ; “Early 20th Century Swahili Prose Narrative Structure and some Aspects of Swahili Ethnicity. Northwestern University Working Paper Series. Evanston: Northwestern University 2005 Ricard Alain. African-Language Writing Trenton: Africa World Press 2004 Geider, T. Alfu Lela Ulela: The Thousand and One Nights in Swahili-speaking East Africa. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter 2004 Swahili Forum 10 Eds. Rose Marie Beck, Lutz Diegner, Thomas Gieider, Uta Reuster-Jahn. Mainz: Johannes Guteenberg University Press 2003 Pouwels, Randal. Bibliography of Primary Sources of the Pre-nineteenth Century East Africa. History in Africa 29 2002 Harneit-Sievers, Axel. A Place in the World: New Local Historiographies from Africa and South Asia.Leiden: Brill 2002 _________. “The Paper Memory of East Africa: Ethnohistories and Biographies Written in Swahili.”'A Place in the World. Ed. Axel Harneit Sievers. Leiden: Brill 2002 Irele, Abiola and Simon Gikandi. The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature. Two. Cambridge: Cambridge UP 2001 France, Peter. The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation. Oxford: OUP 2000 Allen, James de vere. Swahili Origins: Swahili Culture & the Shungwaya Phenomenon. Athens: Ohio University Press 2000 Selected recent presentation at scholarly convocations: “The Influence of the Oriental Seminar at Berlin on Early Swahili Prose Translations in German.” Faculty of the African Studies Program. Indiana University, Bloomington. November 2003. Group Rollins Global,an international consulting, licensing, and Distribution firm, was begun in 2008 by Rollins who uses a network of clients, and business partners to run the firm.l,an international consulting firm, was begun in 2008 by Rollins who uses a network of clients, and business partners to run the firm.

He is also a Masters Swimmer who holds several national records, and is a member of The United States Marine Corps League and is a Semper Fi Member of the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation. In addition, he is a member of the following professional societies: AAUP, Those in the Media, Entertainment Business, Higher Education, London, Paris, Johannesburg, Lagos, Nairobi, and Swiss Business Clubs, Africa Banking Group, Kenyan Telecom Industry,Africa Business Talent Pool Africa Health Platform Likin Morocco Africa InternNet Club Step into AfricaVenture Capital Health Platform Likin MoroccoAfrica InternNext Gen DarJohannesburg Business Clu Step into AfricaVenture Capital and Private Equity in Africa Trade Africa InsidersBuilt this organization’s presence on LinkedIn. This site shares information among African professional business executives and entrepreneurs Warner Bros. Alumni Telecosphere-Europe,Licensing, Merchandising & Brand Management

MONITORED INTERNATIONAL BLOGS AND AFRICA NEWS SERVICES • AllAfrica.com • Ushaidi (gathers information during any crisis situation in Kenya) • ZuQka (social networking in Kenya) • Mootbox (Nigeria) • Jackfruity (Uganda and Sudan, mainly) • Nairobi Notes • White African (building social applications specific to Africa) • Startup Africaand Swiss Business Clubs, Africa Banking Group, Kenyan Telecom Industry,Africa Business Talent Pool Africa Health

He is married and has two children, and two grandchildren.