Justine Mukhwana Sikuku is a senior lecturer in the Department of Literature, Linguistics, Foreign Languages and Film Studies at Moi University, Kenya. He received his PhD from the University of Nairobi in 2011. Among other appointments, he was a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Linguistics at Rutgers University in the fall semester of 2011, HoD, Linguistics and Foreign Languages, Moi University (2013-2018), a visiting scholar at Pomona College, California in 2020. His research interests are in syntax and morphology, particularly in the nature of syntactic anaphora of African languages. His PhD dissertation is on the nature of anaphoric relations in Lubukusu. He is also the native speaker consultant on Lubukusu for the Afranaph project, and the Afranaph sister projects. He has published several papers and articles in peer-reviewed journals and attended numerous conferences in different parts of the world. He has engaged in several research and mentoring projects which include the African Multiple (University of Bayreuth and Moi University African Cluster Centre) short term (24 months) research project entitled Pots, Fire and Gourds: A (Re)presentation of cultural knowledge among the Bukusu, Iteso, Sabaot and Yoruba which ended in 2025. Currently he is engaged in a three-year NSF funded project with Zuzanna Fuchs and Travis Major (University of Southern California) on the psycholinguistics of grammatical properties encoded in noun class prefixes in Lubukusu.