Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Ama de-Graft Aikins obtained her Ph.D. in social psychology from the London School of Economics in 2004. She is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge and a fellow at the International Institute for Advanced Studies in Accra, Ghana.
Emmanuel Akyeampong is Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He is also a senior fellow at the International Institute for Advanced Studies in Accra, Ghana.
David E. Apter is the Henry J. Heinz Professor Emeritus of Comparative Political and Social Development and Senior Research Scientist at Yale University, where he holds a joint appointment in political science and sociology. He has done field research on development, democratization, and political violence in Africa, Latin America, and Asia.
Ayo Coly is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and African Studies at Dartmouth College. She has research interests in African literatures, black diasporic discourses, and gender issues in Africa.
Simon Gikandi is Professor of English at Princeton University. He is the author of many books and articles, including Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature, Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o, which was a Choice Outstanding Academic Publication for 2004.
John Kinsella is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University and a Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia. He was Professor of English at Kenyon College, Ohio from 2001-2005. His new book, Purgatorio: Up Close and Paradiso: Rupture, will be published by W. W. Norton in 2008.
Bongani Madondo is an award-winning staff writer at the Sunday Times' Lifestyle section and the author of a book on rock star gods, pop stars, star gazers, and thugs, Hot Type: Icons, Artists & God-Figurines (Picador Africa). He was recently awarded South Africa's prestigious Best Literary Journalism Award, by the Write Associates.
Rosalind C. Morris is Professor of Anthropology and Associate Director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. A scholar of both mainland Southeast Asia and South Africa, she has published widely on topics concerning the politics of representation, the mass media, gender and sexuality, the nature of religious heterodoxy, and the changing forms of modernity in the global South.
Hudita Nura Mustafa is a scholar of contemporary culture in urban West Africa and its transnational spaces. She works on economies and cultures of entrepreneurship, fashion, and art. She is a McMillan-Stewart Fellow at the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University. [End Page 180]
Tommie Shelby is Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy at Harvard University. He is the author of We Who Are Dark and coeditor of Hip Hop and Philosophy. He is also coeditor of Transition.
Maboula Soumahoro is a doctoral student from the Université François-Rabelais in Tours (France) completing her dissertation on the early years of the Nation of Islam and Rastafari. The author is grateful for the contribution to her work provided by Dr. Trica Keaton, whose work on this topic will appear in her coedited (with Darlene Clark Hine) volume Black Europe and the African Diaspora Anthology in 2008.
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, Liberian civil war survivor, is the author of three books of poetry: Before the Palm Could Bloom: Poems of Africa (1998), Becoming Ebony (2003), and The River is Rising (2007). She teaches creative writing at Pennsylvania State University at Altoona.
Tiphanie Yanique divides her time between St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, and Brooklyn, New York. She is the recipient of a 2008 Pushcart Prize, and her chapbook, The Saving Work, was awarded the Kore Press Award in 2007. Yanique teaches creative writing and Caribbean literature at Drew University, and she is the author of the forthcoming novel The Land of Love and Drowning. [End Page 181]
