Contributors
- Contributors
Joseph K. Adjaye is professor of Africana studies, history, and international studies and director of the African Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Adjaye is the author of several books and numerous journal articles on African history and culture, African historical methodology, and diasporan history. He may be contacted by e-mail at: jadjaye@pitt.edu
Jeffrey S. Ahlman is a Ph.D. candidate in African history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and a predoctoral fellow in the University of Virginia’s Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies. He is currently completing a dissertation on the politics of decolonization and nation-building in postcolonial Ghana. He may be contacted by e-mail at: ja2yk@virginia.edu
Peter Arthur is associate professor of political science at Dalhousie University, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Queen’s University, Canada, in 2001. His research interests include issues relating to the contribution of small-scale enterprises, postconflict reconstruction, and the promotion of good governance in Africa. His work has been published in a number of edited volumes and journals, including Africa Today, African Studies Review, Canadian Journal of Development Studies, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, and Journal of Contemporary African Studies. He may be contacted by e-mail at: peter.arthur@dal.ca
Evan Mwangi teaches English (twentieth-century Anglophone African literature) at Northwestern University, Illinois. He researches the intersection of nationalism, gender, and sexuality in canonical and popular artistic expressions, relating local texts to global theories. He is the coauthor of The Columbia Guide to East African Literature Since 1945 (with Simon Gikandi). His latest book is Africa Writes Back to Self: Metafiction, Gender, Sexuality (State University of New York Press, 2009). He may be contacted by e-mail at: evanmwangi@gmail.com
Austin C. Okigbo received his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from Indiana University, and is currently a visiting faculty member at the University of Notre Dame, with affiliations in the departments of music, theology, and Africana studies. His interests in African and black American religious music is informed by his training in sacred music and theology, and as a choral conductor and church-music practitioner. He has conducted research on church music as the locus of dialogue between faith and culture in Nigeria and South Africa, on the use of protest liturgy and religious music in the antiapartheid struggles, and music and the global politics of HIV/AIDS. [End Page 127] His writings on music and AIDS drawn from ethnographic study in South Africa will appear in The Culture of AIDS in Africa: Hope and Healing through Music and the Arts, edited by Gregory Barz and Judah Cohen, from Oxford University Press, and in the Du Bois Review special issue on race and health from Cambridge University Press. He may be contacted by e-mail at: Austin.C.Okigbo.2@nd.edu [End Page 128]
