Notes on Contributors

Mary Jo Arnoldi is Associate Curator of African Ethnology and Art at the National Museum of Natural History, The Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, DC.

Rose Marie Beck is a member of staff at the Institut für Afrikanische Sprachwissenschaften at the Johann-Wolfgang-von-Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany.

Rogier M. A. Bedaux is curator of the African Department at the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde at the National Museum of Ethnolgy in Leiden, the Netherlands, and Professor of African Material Culture at Leiden University.

Pauline Burmann lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where she works as a consultant in contemporary African art

Anneleen de Jong is with the United Nations Art Collection Library in Geneva, Switzerland.

Dennis Duerden is a Fellow at Churchill College in Cambridge, England.

Michelle Erickson is a graduate student at New York University.

Jonathan Haynes is a professor in the Humanities Division of Southampton College in Southampton, New York.

Anthonia Kalu is a professor in the Department of Africana Studies at the University of Northern Colorado (Greeley).

Sylvie Kandé is a professor of French and Africana Studies at New York University in New York City.

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

Lisa McNee is in the Department of French Studies at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Stanford University.

Allen F. Roberts is Professor of World Arts and Cultures and Mary Nooter Roberts is Chief Curator of the Fowler Museum of Cultural History, both at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Mineke Schipper is Head of the Department of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, and Professor of Intercultural Literary Studies at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands.

Sultan H. Somjee is a member of the Division of Ethnography with the National Museums of Kenya.

Wilfried van Damme is curator in the Afrika-Museum in Berg en Dal in the Netherlands.

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