Contributors
- Contributors
Atieno A. Adala is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University Bloomington. She is completing her dissertation on The Role of the Virtual University in Expanding Access to Higher Education in Africa. She is also the Managing Editor for Africa Today.
Marion-Frank Wilson is Librarian for African Studies at Indiana University and Head, Subject and Area Librarians Council. She is also the Book Review Editor for Africa Today. She received her Ph.D. in English and African Literature from Bayreuth University, Germany. Her most recent publication is Electronic Publishing in African Studies—A Way to Bridge the Information Gap? In Africanist Librarianship in an Era of Change, edited by Victoria K. Evalds and David Henige. Oxford: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Allen Isaacman is Regents Professor of History and Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change at the University of Minnesota. He has published widely in the field of African social history with a particular emphasis on Mozambique. His most recent book co-authored with Barbara Isaacman is entitled Slavery and Beyond the Making of Men and Chikunda Ethnic Identities in the Unstable World of South-Central Africa, 1750–1920, and is currently working on a study entitled "Displaced People, Displaced Energy and Displaced Memory. The Social and Ecological History of the Building of Cahora Bassa Dam." He is also co-editor of the New African Histories series published by Ohio University Press.
Premesh Lalu is senior lecturer in History at the University of the Western Cape. He is currently revising his manuscript, "In the Event of History: Postcolonial Difference and the Return of Hintsa's Head," for Ohio University Press' New African Histories Series. His earlier publications have appeared in History in Africa, The South African Historical Journal, Current Writing, History and Theory and Kronos. Lalu is national co-chair of the DISA/ALUKA content committee.
Peter Limb is Africana bibliographer and assistant professor (adjunct) in History at Michigan State University, East Lansing. He received his Ph.D. in African History from the University of Western Australia in 1998. His books include The ANC and Black Workers, 1912–1992: an Annotated [End Page 104] Bibliography (Hans Zell, 1993), Bibliography of African Literatures (Scarecrow Press, 1996) and Digital Dilemmas and Solutions (Chandos, 2004). He has written widely on African bibliography, digital trends, and South African history. His current research interests include the history of the anti-apartheid movement, the early history of the ANC, and digitization in Africa. He is Chairperson of the Bibliography Committee of the Africana Librarians Council and an international consultant of the DISA Project of South Africa.
Edward A. Miner is International Studies bibliographer at the University of Iowa Libraries. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2001. His dissertation, entitled Language, Ideology, and Power in Uganda, was based upon fieldwork undertaken in Kampala, Uganda on language ideologies implicated in public discourses on national integration and development. During his tenure in 2000-2001 as Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in African Studies with the Indiana University Libraries, he became interested in digital librarianship and archives and their role in African development. He co-edited the digital archive Nuer Field Notes (Indiana University Digital Library Program, 2003), and currently manages a University of Iowa Libraries digital project on Akan religion and medicine.
Cliff Missen is the Director of the WiderNet Project and an instructor in International Programs at the University of Iowa. He has over eighteen years of professional experience in computers, networking, multimedia design, and applications development. At the WiderNet Project, he combines this with his long-term interest in international development. His first visit to Africa was with a medical team in 1982 and he continues to teach and promote appropriate water well drilling technology through the United States non-profit organization Wellspring Africa. In 1998-1999 he was a Senior Fulbright Fellow at the University of Jos in Nigeria and continues to teach simultaneously, utilizing digital technologies, at both institutions.
Thomas I. Nygren is currently the Executive Director of Aluka. From 1991–2003 he was on the staff of the Andrew W. Mellon...
