John Jackson Iwata is a professional in teachers’ education and librarianship. He possesses a Bachelor of Education, and Master of Arts in Information Studies from the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and a PhD from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Besides lecturing and managing library collections, Mr Iwata is the Editor-in-Chief of the East Africa Journal of Social and Applied Sciences (EAJ-SAS). Furthermore, he has since 2010 assumed several leadership roles including Periodicals Librarian, Chairperson of the Steering Committee for establishing Co-operative Archives, Deputy Director, and the Director of Co-operative Library and Archives at Moshi Co-operative University. Also, he has been involved as a team leader in preparing information sciences training programmes and some universities’ legal documents. During his postdoctoral studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Mr. Iwata participated in the University Curriculum Transformation Project (UCDP), specifically on the decolonisation and transformation of university education in South Africa.