Medadi Ssentanda holds a PhD in Applied (General) Linguistics with particular focus in language/mother tongue/multilingual education from Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He also holds a Masters degree in Linguistics (Makerere University, 2007) and Bachelor of Arts with Education (Makerere University, 2005). He has a wealth of experience in translation and editing services. He is very interested in language teaching, translation and research. He has researched and presented papers at various conferences on mother tongue education, early literacy development and language policy in the school context.