Editors

Zahid Rajan is a printer by profession. He has participated in civil society activism since 1992. He has been involved in the publishing of South Asian history in Kenya and is the Executive Editor of AwaaZ.

Zahid is the moderator of Solidarity Network Kenya which publicises material on South South Solidarity. www.solidaritynetkenya.blogspot.com

He was a PR consultant with the Kenya Human Rights Commission on the Mau Mau Reparations Suit filed against the British Government and continues to work around issues of the Mau Mau in Kenya.

Presently he is the Chairman of the Eastern Action Club for Africa, a lobby group for minority rights and whose motto is ‘Equity and Equality for all’. www.easternactionclubforafrica.blogspot.com

Zarina Patel is an author and historian as well as a human rights activist and environmentalist with a long term interest in Kenyan South Asian affairs. She is the granddaughter of Alibhai Mulla Jeevanjee known as the father of South Asian politics in Kenya.

She is also known for her almost single handed effort in saving Jeevanjee Gardens in Nairobi from land grabbers in 1991. She was one of the founding members of the Asian African Heritage Trust and a member of the Ufungamano initiative for Constitutional Change in Kenya.

In April 2003 the NARC Government appointed her to serve on the task force for the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission. She is the author of 3 books and a multitude of writings in main stream media on politics, culture and gender mainstreaming. She is the managing Editor of AwaaZ.

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