Contributors
- Contributors
Lynda R. Day is associate professor of African History at Brooklyn College-CUNY. She received her Ph.D. from the history department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in l988. The author of several articles on women's political leadership in Sierra Leone, she recently completed an article on historical memory and the Yaa Asantewa Centenary published in the Ghana Studies Journal (2000). Her other research interests include regional African-American history and she is author of Making a Way to Freedom: A History of African Americans on Long Island published in 1997.
Susanne Freidberg is an assistant professor of Geography at Dartmouth College. She received her PhD in Geography from University of California-Berkeley in 1996. She is the author of French Beans and Food Scares: Culture and Commerce in an Anxious Age (Oxford University Press, 2004), as well as numerous articles on the cultural, economic and historical geography of commercial agriculture in Burkina Faso and Zambia. She was also the Africa Editor of Encarta Africana, edited by Henry L. Gates and Anthony Appiah.
Kobena T. Hanson is an assistant professor of Geography at the West Virginia University, Morgantown. He received his Ph.D. in geography from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada in 2001. His research interests include urban livelihood strategies, housing, social networking and vulnerability in sub-Saharan Africa.
Leah Horowitz graduated with a B.A. in Geography from Dartmouth College. She traveled to South Africa in August 2002 to explore the debate surrounding genetically-modified food organisms, especially in the context of the World Summit on Sustainable Development
Claire Metelits is a doctoral student in political science at Northwestern University. She received her M.A. in International Studies from the University of Denver. Her research interests include non-state armed actors and state building. She has completed field research in Angola, Kenya, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Her forthcoming research project will take her to Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Aaron Mushengyezi is a lecturer at Makerere University's Literature Department where he previously edited Dhana, a journal of Creative Writing. He has recently co-edited Africa in World Affairs: Challenges to [End Page 144] Humanities (forthcoming 2004). Aaron is the author of Twentieth Century Literary Theory (2003) published by Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, and his scholarly articles, short stories and works of poetry have appeared in various books and journals.
Christiane *Dika Nsangue Akwa is on the faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Douala in Cameroon. She received her Doctorat de 3ème cycle in Anglophone studies from the University of Nanterre in Paris. Her research focuses on the development of communication through the American and Cameroonian presses. [End Page 145]
