Contributors
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DAWIT ABEBE (b.1978), native of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, has exhibited his work in the United Kingdom, France, Dubai, Tanzania, the USA, and Ethiopia. He studied painting, sculpture, graphics, photography, and industrial design at the Alle School of Fine Arts and Design at Addis Ababa University. Since 2001, he has been a full-time artist in residence at the Habesha Art Studio, which he and a group of artists founded in Addis Ababa.
EL ANATSUI, a member of the Nsukka group of artists, was born in the Volta region of Ghana, but has spent much of his life in Nigeria, where he has taught at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. His work has been exhibited in major museums and galleries all across the globe, including the United States, Japan, South Korea, Canada, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Cuba, and in such European countries as Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and Norway. And his art work has garnered for him international recognition—e. g., the Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement, 56th Venice Biennale (2015); The Public’s Prize, 7, Triennale der Kleinplastik, Stüttgart, Germany (1999); and Bronze Prize, 9th Osaka Sculpture Triennale, Osaka, Japan (1998). He is Professor of sculpture in the Department of Fine and applied Arts at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
DESIREE BAILEY was born in Trinidad and Tobago and grew up in Queens, NY. She has a BA degree from Georgetown University and an MFA in fiction writing from Brown University. She is a recipient of the 2013 Poets and Writers Amy Award and has received fellowships from Princeton in Africa and the Norman Mailer Center. Her poetry and short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Callaloo, Best American Poetry, Transition, Muzzle, Blackberry, and other periodicals. She currently serves as the fiction editor of Kinfolks Quarterly.
BRETT A. BERLINER is an associate professor of history at Morgan State University. He is a cultural historian of modern Europe and has published on race and racism in interwar France. He is currently researching Franco-American amity and epistolary relationships, especially those between war orphans and American benefactors.
KIFLE SELASSIE BESEAT was born 1941 in Ethiopia, where he received his early education in Amharic and French. After 1960 he removed to France, where he first studied in Toulouse and later in Paris, and completed his doctorate at the Sorbonne. His interdisciplinary education (philosophy, political science, history, geography, social sciences, and media, for example) and his mastery of a number of languages in Africa and Europe would serve him well in later years. When he returned from France to Ethiopia in 1966, he worked in different forms of journalistic work, from serving as editor of Addis Soir, Le Monde, Jeune Afrique, Newsweek, French Radio (RFI), the Office of Radio and Television of France (ORTF), and the Britian’s Thames Television to present Ethiopian and other African news. In 1975, when he returned to France from Ethiopia, where he had engaged in collecting, promoting, and selling traditional and modern Ethiopian visual art, he served as an assistant to Professor Maurice Duverger in political science at the Centre d’Analyse [End Page 233] Comparative des Systèmes Politiques (CACSP) at the Sorbonne University while working in Philosophy with Professor Robert Misrahi, a specialist of Spinoza and Husserl. Since 1999 he has served as Director of the International Fund for the Promotion of Culture (IFPC/UNESCO).
ELLEKE BOEHMER, a native of South Africa, is professor of world literature in English and Director of the Oxford Research Centre in Humanities at Oxford University, UK. She is author and editor of a number of academic texts, including Colonial and Postcolonial Literature (1995, 2005), Empire, the National and the Postcolonial, 1890–1920 (2002), J.M. Coetzee in Writing and Theory (2009), Terror and the Postcolonial (2009), Nelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction (2008), and Indian Arrivals 1870–1915: Networks of Empire (2015). She is also known for her novels and short stories, Screens Against the Sky (shortlisted for the David Hyam Prize, 1990), Bloodlines (shortlisted for the SANLAM prize), Nile Baby (2008), The Shouting in the Dark (2015), and Sharmilla and Other Portraits (short stories, 2010). She is the General Editor of the Oxford Studies in...
