Magreth John Kibiki is a Lecturer in the Department of Languages and Literature. She has specialized in Swahili Linguistics and she has authored several articles in semantics and Pragmatics. She teaches Kiswahili courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her areas of teaching include Introduction to General Linguistics in Kiswahili, Second/Foreign Language Teaching and Learning, Kiswahili Semantics and Pragmatics. Her research interests include Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis and Conversation Analysis. She is currently the Head of the Department of Languages and Literature.