She teaches courses on African and Diasporic poetry, music, satire, and literatures of the city. Originally from Zimbabwe, Jaji conducted archival research for her first book, Africa in Stereo: Modernism, Music and Pan-African Solidarity (Oxford UP, 2014) in Ghana, Senegal, South Africa and France. The book analyzes the impact of African American popular music on African ideas of modernity and solidarity. Jaji's chapbook, Carnaval, was published by the African Poetry Book Fund this year, and her poetry has previously appeared in Bitter Oleander, Runes, Center for Book Arts Broadsides Series, InTensions e-journal and on the Poetry International Zimbabwe website.