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295 contributors Julian Jane Atim is a Ugandan physician with an M.P.h. from harvard University and the founder of Students for equity in health care (Sehc). With amy c. finnegan and Michael Westerhaus, she developed and directs the course Beyond the Biologic Basic of Disease: The Social and economic causation of illness. Julian M. Bass was formerly the higher education iT advisor at the higher education Strategy center, addis ababa, ethiopia, and worldwide technical Training Manager for a Silicon Valley–based enterprise customer relation management vendor. he is currently a lecturer at the School of computing at robert gordon University in the United Kingdom and a director of X Lab Mentoring Ltd. he has published over 50 articles in the areas of iT for education in developing countries, software development methods, fault-tolerant computing, and hard real-time distributed systems. Todd Cleveland is an assistant Professor of history at augustana college, where he teaches classes on african history, african commodities, african development, sports in africa, and africana studies. his past publications include examinations of african national congress activity in angola, the introduction of industrial education into angola, the role of soccer in engendering angolan nationalism, the methodological implications of conducting research in contemporary angola, and the histories of ethnic minorities and child laborers on angola’s diamond mines. Jennifer E. Coffman is associate executive Director of international Programs and associate Professor of integrated Science and Technology at James Madison University . She is the founder and Director of JMU’s Kenya field School and also serves as chair of the U.S. Board of Directors for carolina for Kibera, inc. coffman’s research in Kenya examines the politics of land access and ownership, concepts of sustainability, resource distribution, and education. Caleb Corkery is an assistant Professor of english at Millersville University of Pennsylvania . he teaches courses in african american literature, writing, and the rhetoric of race. Most recently, he has developed a critical pedagogy for teaching white racial awareness, which has appeared in the journal Teaching English in the Two-Year College. his previous work on african literature includes “citizen Orator in the West african Savannah” in the volume Rhetoric in the Rest of the West (cambridge Scholars Publishing , 2010). Carl Death joined the Department of international Politics at aberystwyth University (United Kingdom) in September 2009, after having obtained a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in economics from aberystwyth and a B.a. from cambridge University. in 2008–2009, 296 | Contributors he lectured in the School of Law and government, Dublin city University. he is the author of Governing Sustainable Development (routledge, 2010). he teaches the courses Power, conflict, and Development in africa; Protest, Power, and resistance in africa; and global environmental Politics. Oumar Chérif Diop is an assistant Professor of Postcolonial Literatures at Kennesaw State University. he has presented numerous papers on violence and trauma in african literatures. his forthcoming articles are on violence in alex Laguma’s works, agency in nawal el Sadaawi’s works, and trauma in Yvonne Vera’s novels. Prior to his work on violence, Dr. Diop coauthored “Ousmane Sembene’s Xala: The novel, the film, and Their audiences” (research in african Literatures, 1998). his research deals with violence and trauma in african and african diaspora literatures. James Ellison is an associate Professor of anthropology at Dickinson college. a cultural anthropologist, he has conducted fieldwork in Somalia, ethiopia, and Tanzania. he researches and teaches about the intersections of culture and political economy in africa and health and healing in africa. his writings have been published in venues including the journals American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, and Comparative Studies in Society and History. Toyin Falola is University Distinguished Teaching Professor and the frances higginbotham nalle centennial Professor of history at the University of Texas at austin. he has published many books, including Colonialism and Violence in Nigeria (indiana University Press, 2009). Amy C. Finnegan is a Professor at the University of Minnesota–rochester. She received her Ph.D. from Boston college in 2011. as a practitioner/activist, she has worked on antiwar issues and peace building, hiV/aiDS, and human rights in the United States and Uganda. her research interests include race relations, global health, social movements , and peace and conflict. along with Julian Jane atim and Michael Westerhaus, she developed and directs the course Beyond the Biologic Basis of Disease: The Social and economic causation of illness. Trevor R. Getz is Professor of african history at San francisco State University and a former fulbright...

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