Contributors
- Contributors
Adetunji Adegoke is an assistant lecturer and doctoral student in the Department of Languages, Covenant University. He was a foreign language teaching assistant in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University. He may be contacted by e-mail at adexco2008@yahoo.co.uk.
Olayinka Akanle is a lecturer at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of the Social Sciences, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He received his PhD in sociology from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He has published widely in local and international refereed journals, books, and encyclopaedias. His recent publications have appeared in African Journal for the Psychological Studies of Social Issues, International Review of Modern Sociology, Journal of Anthropological Research, and the Nigerian Journal of Sociology and Anthropology. He is in development practice as a consultant to many nongovernmental organizations and international development agencies. His areas of specialization are development sociology, sociological and social theory, rural sociology, diaspora studies, and international migration. He may be contacted by e-mail at yakanle@yahoo.com or yk.akanle@mail.ui.edu.ng.
Innocent Chiluwa is a senior lecturer and the head of the Department of Languages, Covenant University, Nigeria. He received his PhD in English and communication studies from the University of Ibadan in 2005 and was a postdoctoral research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Freiburg, Germany, in 2010. His books Labeling and Ideology in the Press: A Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Study of the Niger Delta Crisis and Language in the News: Mediating Sociopolitical Crises in Nigeria were published by Peter Lang (Frankfurt 2011, 2012). He is the coeditor of Computer-Mediated Discourse in Africa (New York: Nova Publishers, 2012). He has published numerous articles in discourse studies, culture, and society, with his research focusing on ideology, identity, culture, activism, social crisis and resistance in the mass media, computer-mediated communication, and political and religious discourses in West Africa. He may be contacted by e-mail at innocent.chiluwa@covenantuniversity.edu.ng.
Amy C. Finnegan is a sociology professor at the University of Minnesota-Rochester and codirector of SocMed, a nonprofit organization that advocates for and implements global health education in the pursuit of justice and equity through immersion courses in northern Uganda and Haiti. She received her PhD from Boston College in 2011 and holds a master's in law and diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. Her research interests include social movements, global health, and peace and conflict. [End Page 175] She has been working on Uganda-related issues since 2000. She may be reached by e-mail at finne103@umn.edu.
Charles M. Fombad is professor of law and head of the Comparative African Constitutional Law Unit, Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria. He holds a PhD in law from the University of London. He is the author or editor of eight books and has published more than sixty articles in international refereed journals, more than two dozen book chapters, and numerous other publications and conference papers. He is a member of the editorial board of several international journals. He is a member of several professional associations. His research interests include comparative constitutional law, African law, international law, legal history, and delict and media law. He may be contacted by e-mail at charles.fombad@up.ac.za.
Francis B. Nyamnjoh holds a PhD (1990) from the University of Leicester, UK. He joined the University of Cape Town in August 2009 as professor of social anthropology from the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), where he served as head of publications from July 2003 to July 2009. He has taught sociology, anthropology, and communication studies at universities in Cameroon and Botswana, and has researched and written extensively on Cameroon and Botswana, where he was awarded the Senior Arts Researcher of the Year prize for 2003. He is a 2010 B2-rated professor and researcher according to the South African National Research Foundation, a fellow of the Cameroon Academy of Science since August 2011, and the current chair of the board of HSRC Press in South Africa. He has published widely on globalization...
