Contributors
- Contributors
Rabiu K.B. Asante is a teaching assistant in the Sociology Department at the University of Ghana, where he is an M.Phil. candidate. His thesis explores the use of mobile phones among market women in Accra. He is currently completing an article titled "My Phone, My Work: The Role of the Mobile Phone in the Lives of Women Foodstuff Traders," which examines how cell phones have transformed personalized economic relationships in Ghanaian markets. His research interests include information and communications technologies (ICT) and society, as well as gender and ICT in African contexts. Rabiu K.B. Asante may be contacted by email at: rabasante@yahoo.com.
Alex Boakye Asiedu received his Ph.D from Hokkaido University in Japan in 1992. He is Associate Professor and teaches at the Department of Geography and Resource Development, University of Ghana. His research interests include tourism, migration and gated housing estates development and has just completed co-editing a book on Tourism Development in Ghana: A Modern Synthesis. Alex Boakye Asiedu may be contacted by email at: abasiedu@ug.edu.gh
Brian Ekdale is a doctoral student in mass communication at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research focuses on media globalization, media activism, new media, and popular culture in East Africa. His dissertation examines individuals and organizations producing visual media products that advocate for social justice in Nairobi's slums. Brian Ekdale may be contacted by email at: bekdale@wisc.edu.
Jo Ellen Fair is Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication and Director of the International Studies Major at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She has published numerous articles on U.S. media portrayals of conflict in Africa, human-rights reporting in Africa, and globalization and popular culture in West Africa. She is coeditor of The Art of Truth-Telling about Authoritarian Rule (University of Wisconsin Press, 2005). Jo Ellen Fair may be contacted by email at: jefair@wisc.edu.
Kwame Amoah Labi is an art historian and a senior research fellow at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. He teaches courses on African art and African diasporan art. His research interests are in Ghanaian art, specifically on Fante asafo flags and monuments. He has published on Akan art in several local and international journals. He is the curator of the institute's museum and teaches aspects of heritage management. Kwame Amoah Labi may be reached by email at: labikwame@gmail.com. [End Page 147]
Brempong Oset-Tutu received his Ph.D. from Syracuse University. His research interests include archaeological heritage management, materiality, the Atlantic slave trade, memory, and the African diaspora. He has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on these topics. He is currently working on a manuscript on slave castles and rituals of memory as a chapter for a prospective book on Materialities, Meanings, and Modernities of Rituals in the Black Atlantic. Brempong Osei-Tutu may be contacted by email at: brempong@gmail.com.
Alioune Sow is Assistant Professor of French and African Studies at the University of Florida. He received his Ph.D. in comparative literature from the Université Paris IV–La Sorbonne. He has published on African literatures and colonial literatures. His research interests include autobiography in African literatures, childhood narratives, and Malian literature and cinema. Alioune Sow may be contacted by email at: sow@ufl.edu.
Diri I. Teilanyo has a Ph.D. in English from the Department of English and Literature at the University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria, where he is currently a senior lecturer. His research interest is in English as a second language, translatology, and literary stylistics, especially in the artistic use of nonstandard English in societies where it is a nonnative language. He has published widely in this area in books and journals. Diri I. Teilanyo may be reached by email at: teilanyo@uniben.edu.
Melissa Tully is a doctoral student in mass communication in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is interested in Internet and mobile technology in Africa, particularly the role that new media play in conflict situations and how media technologies are used to report and record human-rights violations. She has received a Fulbright-Hays...
