Notes on Contributors

George Alao holds a PhD in comparative African literature and presently teaches at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) in Paris.

Bernadette Cailler is Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Florida (Gainesville).

Michael Chapman is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Natal-Durban Centre.

Joseph Dong'Aroga is a Professor with the Faculté des Arts, Lettres, et Sciences Humaines at the University of Yaoundé in Cameroon.

Stephen Gray is a free-lance writer living in Johannesburg

Jang, Tae-Sang is Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of African Languages at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Yongin-si, Kyunggi-do, Korea.

M. Kamga is a translator for the Cameroonian Ministry of Defense and a master's student in literature at the University of Yaoundé I.

Adele King, Professor of French at Ball State University in Indiana, formerly taught in several Nigerian universities.

Klazien Kruisheer studied African Linguistics at Leiden University, The Netherlands, and now works as a free-lance copy writer and part-time Swahili teacher at the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam.

George Lang is a professor in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Alberta (Edmonton), Canada.

Judith Mayne, is Professor of French and Women's Studies at The Ohio State University.

Naana Opoku-Agyemang is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana.

Moyo Okediji, is a professor in the Department of Art at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.

Femi Osofisan is a playwright and Head of the Department of Theatre Arts at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.

Aderemi Raji-Oyelade teaches African and African American literatures, critical theory, and creative writing in the Department of English at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.

Marika Sherwood is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London.

Peter Simatei is a member of the Literature Department, Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya, and is currently completing his dissertation on East African literature at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.

D. Venkat Rao is a member of the Department of English Literature at the Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad, India.

Kyallo Wadi Wamitila teaches classical and modern Kiswahili literature at the University of Nairobi. He is currently completing his doctorate on archetypal criticism of Kiswahili poetry at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.

Horst Zander is a professor at the Institut für Englische Philologie at the University of Munich.