Saida Yahya-Othman

Saida Yahya-Othman is a retired Associate Professor of the University of Dar es Salaam,
where she worked for over 40 years. She trained at the Universities of
Dar es Salaam, York and Edinburgh, in English linguistics, and has
taught and published largely in that area, particularly discourse
analysis and pragmatics. In 1972 she married Haroub Othman, who died in
2009. She lives in Dar es Salaam, where she does pre-publication work.