Contributors
- Contributors
Abimbola O. Adesoji is a lecturer in the Department of History, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He received his Ph.D. from the same university. His research interests are traditional and contemporary Yoruba history and the sociopolitical history of Nigeria. He was a Georg Forster Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, from October 2009 to November 2010. His recent publications include "Historical Scholarship in 20th Century Nigeria: The Quest for Relevance," Africa Symposium 9(2) (2009); "Old Wine in New Bottle: The Nigerian Press in the Era of Constitutional Democracy, 1999–2009," The Journal of International Social Research 3(10) (2010); "Restoring Peace or Waging War: Security Agencies' Management of Ethno-Religious Uprisings in Nigeria," African Security Review 19(3) (2010); "Traditional Rulership and Modern Governance in 20th Century Nigeria," in The Chieftaincy Institution in Nigeria, edited by Tunde Babawale, Akin Alao, and Bimbo Adesoji (Lagos: Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization, 2010); "Mediating an Intra-Elite Struggle for Power and Privilege in Nigeria: The Police and the Oyo State Political Crisis, 2005–2007" (jointly authored), International Journal of Police Science and Management 12(4) (2010); and "The Boko Haram Uprisings and Islamic Revivalism in Nigeria" Africa Spectrum 45(2) (2010). He may be contacted by e-mail at aadesoji2@yahoo.com or adesoji@em.uni-frankfurt.de.
Ransford Edward Van Gyampo is a lecturer in the Department of Political Science, University of Ghana. For five years, he has taught courses including "Introduction to the Study of Political Science," "Political Institutions," "Politics of Developing Countries," and "Strategies for African Development." He has published several journal articles on elections, democracy, and governance in Ghana. He is currently pursuing a doctorate degree in political science in the University of Ghana. He may be contacted by e-mail at vangyampo@yahoo.com.
Sam Hickey is a senior lecturer in development studies at the Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester. His research focuses on the politics of development, with specific reference to sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Cameroon and Uganda. His published works include the guest editorship of the Journal of Development Studies (August 2010) and World Development (with Sarah Bracking; 2005), Rights-Based Approaches to Development (with Diana Mitlin; Kumarian, 2009), Can NGOs Make a Difference? The Challenge of Development Alternatives (with Tony Bebbington and Diana Mitlin; Zed Books, 2007) and From Tyranny to Transformation: Exploring New Approaches to Participation [End Page 136] (with Giles Mohan; Zed Books, 2004). He may be contacted by e-mail at sam.hickey@manchester.ac.uk.
Rasheed Oyewole Olaniyi is a lecturer in the Department of History, University of Ibadan, and former subdean (general) Faculty of Arts (2007–2009). He earned his Ph.D. from Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria, in 2004. He is the author of Diaspora Is Not Like Home: A Social and Economic History of Yoruba in Kano, 1912–1999 (München: Lincom Europa, 2008) and Community Vigilantes in Metropolitan Kano, 1985–2005 (Ibadan: IFRA, 2005). He coedited with A. G. Adebayo and O. C. Adesina Marginality and Crisis: Globalisation and Identity in Contemporary Africa (Lexington Books, 2010). He has contributed chapters in books and articles in journals on urban security and governance, migration, entrepreneurship, and intergroup relations. He is currently completing postdoctoral research on Yoruba migrants' identity in Northern Ghana and Egbe Omo Oduduwa in Northern Nigeria. He may be contacted by e-mail at rasolaniyi@gmail.com.
Jeremy Prestholdt is an associate professor of history at the University of California, San Diego. He received his Ph.D. in African history from Northwestern University in 2003. He is the author of Domesticating the World: African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization (University of California Press, 2008). He is currently completing a manuscript on political culture, violence, and claims of autochthony in postcolonial Kenya. He may be contacted by e-mail at jprestholdt@ucsd.edu. [End Page 137]
