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279 contributors John M. Cinnamon is associate professor of anthropology and affiliate of black world studies at Miami University (Ohio). His research interests include history and memory in Equatorial Africa and the contribution of missionary ethnographers . He is currently working on a history of the Mademoiselle movement in northern Gabon from the 1950s to the present. Dennis D. Cordell is professor of history and adjunct professor of anthropology at Southern Methodist University. He is the coeditor of African Population and Capitalism: Historical Perspectives and the coauthor of Hoe andWage:A Social History of a Circular Migration System in West Africa. He is currently writing a history of African population. Raymond Gervais focused his early research on African history and the demography of West Africa. His first master’s thesis, in history from the University of Birmingham, dealt with the economic history of the Lake Chad region; his second , in demography from the Université de Montréal, analyzed the demographic impact of the drought in 1969–73 on Niger. Directed by Catherine CoqueryVidrovitch , he went on to complete a PhD dissertation at the Université de Paris 7–Denis-Diderot on the economic and demographic history of Burkina Faso. Along with these topics, Gervais’s publications have also explored the history of statistics in colonial French West Africa. Since 1985, he has served as a consultant on economic and social development projects throughout Africa and in other parts of the developing world. Karl Ittmann is associate professor of history at the University of Houston.He is the author of Work, Gender and Family inVictorian England. He is writing a history of population policy in the British Empire. Gregory H. Maddox is professor of history at Texas Southern University and author of Sub-Saharan Africa: An Environmental History and coauthor of Practicing History in CentralTanzania:Writing, Memory, and Performance. 280 contributors Issiaka Mandé received his doctorate in African history from the Université de Paris 7–Denis-Diderot,where he is now maître de conférences in the Department of History and attached to the Laboratoire SEDET of the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). Mandé is the coeditor of and contributor to several collections of essays on the modern history of Africa, including Migrations et cultures d’entreprise, with E.Guerassimoff,C.Maitte,and M.Martini;Être étranger et migrant en Afrique au XXème siècle, with Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch,Odile Goerg,and F. Rajaonah; and Historiens africains et la mondialisation, with B. Stefanson. Patrick Manning is AndrewW. Mellon Professor of World History and director of the World History Center at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Navigating World History: Historians Create a Global Past (2003), Migration in World History (2006), and The African Diaspora: A History through Culture (2009). HisWeb site is http://www.worldhistorynetwork.org/manning. ThomasV. McClendon is a professor of history at Southwestern University. He is the author of Genders and Generations Apart: LaborTenants and Customary Law in Segregation-Era SouthAfrica,1920s to 1940s, and of White Chief,Black Lords:Shepstone and the Colonial State in Natal, South Africa, 1845–1878. Sheryl A. McCurdy is associate professor at the University of Texas–Houston School of Public Health. She is coeditor of “Wicked”Women and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Africa and publishes in history, social science, and public health journals. Her current research on the social networks of heroin users in Tanzania is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Meshack Owino is an assistant professor of history at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio. He is currently working on a manuscript on the experience of Kenya African soldiers in World War II. Meredeth Turshen is a professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University. She has written four books, most recently Women’s Health Movements:A Global Force for Change. She has also edited five volumes and is currently editing a sixth, AfricanWomen:A Political Economy. ...

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