Contributors
- Contributors
Cheikh A. Babou teaches African History and the History of Islam in Africa at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Fighting the Greater Jihad: Amadu Bamba and the Founding of the Muridiyya of Senegal, 1853–1913 (Ohio University Press, 2007). Dr. Babou's articles have appeared in African Affairs, Journal of African History, International Journal of African Historical Studies, Journal of Religion in Africa and other scholarly journals in the United States and in France. His current research project examines the experience of West African Muslim immigrants in Europe and North America.
Elias K. Bongmba holds The Harry and Hazel Chavanne Chair in Christian Theology and Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University. He is the Managing Editor of Religious Studies Review as well as the Bulletin of the Council of Societies for the Study of Religion. He is author of The Dialectics of Transformation in Africa, which won the 2007 Frantz Fanon Prize for outstanding Work in Caribbean Thought. His most recent book is Facing a Pandemic: The African Church and the Crisis of AIDS.
Emmanuel C. Eze was an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at DePaul University, Chicago. He did his undergraduate and graduate studies at Jesuit colleges in Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo and at Fordham University in New York. His teaching specializations were in European and African philosophy, social and political theory, and postcolonial studies. His publications included Achieving our Humanity: The Idea of the Postracial Future (2001), Postcolonial African Philosophy: A Critical Reader (1998), and Race and the Enlightenment: A Reader (1997). He was the editor of the journal Philosophia Africana. Dr. Eze passed away on December 30, 2007 after a short illness.
Zekeh S. Gbotokuma is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Global Studies at Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland (USA). He earned a doctorate in Philosophy from Gregorian University, a Bachelor's degree in Theology from the Pontifical Urban University, and a Diploma in International Studies from the Italian Society for International Organization, all in Rome. He is the founding President of Polyglots in Action for Diversity, Inc. His multilingual publications include, inter alia, Césaire, Césairologie et l'Humanisme Universel (Xlibris, 2007), A Pan-African Encyclopedia (Edwin Mellen Press, 2003), Dizionario Italiano Lingala/Lingala-Italiano (Armando Curcio, 1990), Lingala-English (Kasahorow Pan-African Living Dictionary Online). His works in progress include, inter alia, a multilingual Lingala-English-French-Italian Dictionar. [End Page 121]
Isidore Lobnibe is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Western Oregon University. He received his Ph.D in Anthropology in 2007 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Chmapign. His research interests lie in social organization, labor migration, Agrarian and environmental systems, the history of anthropology and historiography of Ghana and Burkina Faso, West Africa. His publications have appeared in book chapters, American Anthropologist, and Africa.
Darko Kwabena Opoku teaches in the Department of Global Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in Political Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies in 2005. His research interests include the political economy of development and economic liberalization in Africa. [End Page 122]
