Trustee for the Human Community: Ralph J. Bunche, the United Nations, and the Decolonization of Africa

Contributors

193 Contributors David Anthony is professor of African and African American history at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research explores African and African American history, art, music, literature, and cinema as well as eastern and southern Africa,African languages, and African and African American linkages. His most recent book is MaxYergan: Race Man, Internationalist, Cold Warrior (2006). He is coeditor, with Robert R. Edgar and Robert T.Vinson, of Crossing the Water:African American Historical Linkages with South Africa (forthcoming). He has also written several articles on Max Yergan and the history of the YMCA in Africa. Ralph A. Austen is professor emeritus of African history at the University of Chicago. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 1966 and served as a member of the board of directors of the African Studies Association (1980–83). His current research focuses on the political economy and cultural dimensions of European overseas expansion (including autobiographical writings by “colonial subjects”) and African literature. He is editor of In Search of Sunjata:The Mande Oral Epic as History, Literature, and Performance (1999) and author, with Jonathan Derrick,of Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers:The Duala and Their Hinterland, ca. 1600–ca. 1960 (1999). He has recently completed Trans-Saharan Africa in World History (2010), which deals with North African, Saharan, and west-central Sudanese history, mainly in the era of Islamic caravan trade. He is also working on an autobiographical study of the Malian intellectual and writer Amadou Hampâté Bâ (1901–90).Austen is also working, with Woodruff Smith, on a longer book, The Road to Postcoloniality. Abena P. A. Busia is associate professor in the English department of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, where she has taught since 1981. Born in Accra, Ghana, she completed her BA in English language and literature at St. Anne’s College, Oxford, in 1976, and a PhD in social anthropology (race relations) at St. Antony’s College in 1984. Busia is codirector of the groundbreaking Women Writing 194 contributors Africa Project, a multivolume anthology published by the Feminist Press at CUNY.She is coeditor,with Stanlie James,of Theorizing Black Feminisms: The Visionary Pragmatism of Black Women (1993) and has published numerous articles on black women’s literature and colonial discourse.She is currently completing Song in a Strange Land:Narratives and Rituals of Remembrance in the Novels of Black Women of Africa and the African Diaspora. Her poems have appeared in several anthologies, including Summer Fires, New Poetry of Africa (1983), Mandela Amandla, A Seventieth Birthday Tribute to Nelson Mandela (1989), and Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient Egyptian to the Present (1992). Neta C. Crawford is an adjunct professor at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. She was a peace fellow at Radcliffe’s Bunting Institute (1998–99) and a postdoctoral fellow at the Watson Institute (1994–96). She is the author of Argument and Change in World Politics: Ethics, Decolonization, and Humanitarian Intervention (2002). She is coeditor, with Audie Klotz, of How Sanctions Work: Lessons from South Africa (1999). In addition to publishing articles in scholarly journals such as International Organization and International Security, Crawford has also published in newspapers and popular journals , such as Christian Science Monitor, Newsday, and Boston Review. She received her doctorate in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Robert Edgar is professor of African studies at Howard University, where he is also director of graduate studies in the Department of African Studies. His research interests include southern Africa and African religious and political movements. He is author of Sanctioning Apartheid (1990) and coauthor, with Hilary Sapire, of African Apocalypse :The Story of Nontetha Nkwenkwe, A Twentieth-Century South African Prophet (2000). He is also editor of An African American in South Africa:The Research Diary of Ralph J. Bunche, 1937 (1992) and coeditor, with Luyanda ka Msumza, of Freedom in Our Lifetime:The Collected Writings ofAnton Muziwakhe Lembede (1996).Edgar was also an adviser on a 2001 documentary film about Ralph Bunche. Charles P. Henry is professor of African American studies at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1994, President Clinton appointed him for a six-year term on the National Council on the Humanities. 195 contributors Former president of the National Council for Black Studies, Henry is the author or editor of six...