Notes on Contributors

Pius Adesanmi is in the Department of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

Ousseina D. Alidou is a lecturer in the Department of African-American and African Studies at The Ohio State University in Columbus.

Chukwuma Azuonye is Associate Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Massachusetts-Boston.

The late Jacqueline Bardolph was a member of the Faculté des Lettres, Arts, et Sciences Humaines at the Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis in France.

Lindon Barrett is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature and the Programs in African American Studies and Women's Studies at the University of California-Irvine.

Ian Baucom is Assistant Professor of English at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

Linda-Susan Beard is Professor of English at Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.

T. J. Cribb is a Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, England.

Isidore Diala is a professor in the Department of English at Imo State University, Owerri, Nigeria.

Patricia D. Duffy is a lecturer in the Department of French Language and Literature at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Olakunle George is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Oregon in Eugene.

Marie-Paule Ha is a professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong.

John C. Hawley is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California.

Dominic Head lectures at the University of Central England (Birmingham).

Jan Jansen is with the Department of Anthropology at Leiden University in The Netherlands.

Bruce King writes about music as well as about Commonwealth literature.

Simon Lewis is a professor of English at the College of Charleston (South Carolina).

D. A. Masolo is Justus Bier Professor of Humanities and a member of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Louisville in Kentucky.

Alamin M. Mazrui is Associate Professor of African-American and African Studies at The Ohio State University in Columbus.

Craig McLuckie is a professor in the Department of English at Okanagan University College in Canada.

Mildred Mortimer is Professor of French at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Francis Ngaboh-Smart is with the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.

Stephanie Newell is a Fellow of Robinson College and Associate at the African Studies Centre, University of Cambridge.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o is a writer and professor in the Department of Africana Studies at New York University.

Ode S. Ogede is Associate Professor of English at North Carolina Central University in Durham.

Tanure Ojaide is Associate Professor in the Department of African-American and African Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Ikechukwu Okafor-Newsum is Associate Professor in the Department of African-American and African Studies at The Ohio State University in Columbus.

Susan Pearsall completed her PhD in English at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in May 1999 and is a technical writer at a software company in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

Henriette Roos is Professor of Afrikaans at the University of South Africa in Pretoria.

Ranu Samantrai is Assistant Professor in the Cultural Studies Department at Claremont University in California.

Said S. Samatar is Professor in the Department of History at Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey.

Elaine Savory teaches at New York University and has worked as a director of theaters in Ghana, Barbados, and the United States.

Nancy J. Schmidt has retired from her position as Librarian for African Studies and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University-Bloomington.

Anthea Simoes is graduate assistant in the Centre for Cultural and Media Studies at the University of Natal-Durban.

Martha L. Wharton is Assistant Professor in the Department of African-American and African Studies at The Ohio State University in Columbus.

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