He holds a BA in Literature and Language from Makerere University, an M.Litt in Literary Linguistics from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow in the UK, and a PhD in Literature from the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. Kiyimba has taught on a variety of literature courses including Literary Linguistics, African American Literature, 20th Century African Literature, selected European authors such as Bernard Shaw, George Orwell, Jane Austen, and Charles Dickens; but his current research interests are in the areas of African Oral Literature, Children’s Literature and Gender in Literature.