Contributors
- Contributors
Obi Iwuagwu teaches Economic History, Development Studies and Public Policy at the Department of History & Strategic Studies, University of Lagos, Nigeria. His core area of strength is Nigeria’s economic history and rural development, having published extensively on these issues in both local and international journals. He has also served his country, Nigeria, on advisory capacity at various times, especially on economic policy matters.
Donna J. E. Maier is a Professor of African History at the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa. She has conducted extensive field and archival research in Ghana and Togo, and published numerous articles and essays on nineteenth-century West African political and economic history. She received her Ph D from Northwestern University.
Simeon Maravanyika is a Lecturer in the Department of Economic History, University of Zimbabwe and a Senior Researcher at the Development Reality Institute Africa (DRI), a youth-oriented organization whose work aims to enhance youth capacity to climate change adaptation and mitigation in Africa. Simeon is doing a Ph D on the dynamics and efficacy of colonial agrarian policy in Zimbabwe at the University of Pretoria. His research interests include aspects of Zimbabwean agrarian and labour history, conservation and climate change mitigation and adaptation in Zimbabwean rural areas.
Tendayi Mutimukuru-Maravanyika, Ph D in Natural Resources Management from Wageningen University, The Netherlands, is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the WorldFish Centre in Ghana. Her work focuses on designing and implementing participatory action research in natural resource management situations. Tendayi worked for the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) from 2002 to 2006.
Peter Richens holds an undergraduate degree in economics and economic history from the London School of Economics and a M Phil degree in economics from the University of Cambridge, where is research focused on social networks and land tenure in rural Ghana. He is currently employed in the research department of the Ugandan ministry of finance, under the Overseas Development Institute fellowship scheme. [End Page 181]
Abubakar Babajo Sani is Senior Lecturer in History, in the Faculty of Humanities, Umaru Musa Yar’adua University, Katsina State, Nigeria. He obtained his Ph D from Bayero University, Kano, in 2004. Abubakar previously worked in the Department of History, Nigeria Defense Academy, Kaduna. His research interests concentrate on aspects of the Economic History of Africa, particularly the Economies of the Central Sudan (West Africa) and the trans-Saharan trade in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. [End Page 182]
