Contributors
- Contributors
Mary Jo Arnoldi is Curator of African Ethnology and Chair of the Department of Anthropology in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. She received her Ph.D. in African Art History from Indiana University in 1983. She has published several books and numerous articles on Malian visual and performing arts, including Playing with Time: Art and Performance in Central Mali (Indiana University Press, 1995); The Sogow: Imagining a Moral Universe through Sogo Bò Masquerades in 2001 (Museum for African Art, New York) and "Bamako, Mali: Monuments and Modernity in the Urban Imagination" in 2007 (Africa Today). Mary Jo Arnoldi may be contacted by e-mail at: arnoldim@si.edu.
V. Adefemi Isumonah was a Cambridge/Africa Collaborative Research Fellow, University of Cambridge, from October 2011 to March 2012 and the 2005/2006 Bank of Ireland Nelson Mandela Fellow at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway, Republic of Ireland. He is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. From June 2004 to October 2005, he was a research fellow at the Centre for Advanced Social Science, Port Harcourt, Nigeria, where he served as Acting Director of Research from February to October 2005. His main research interests are civil society, ethnicity and minority rights. His recent published works are Federal Presence in Nigeria: The Sung and Unsung Basis for Ethnic Grievance (Dakar: CODESRIA, 2009; coauthored with Professor Festus O. Egwaikhide and O. Ayodele) and "Institutional Basis of Ethno-Regional Competition for Resources in Nigeria" (Journal of Third World Studies 26[2]:227-253, coauthored with Professor Festus O. Egwaikhide). V. Adefemi Isumonah may be reached by e-mail at: isumonah@yahoo.com.
Daniel Künzler is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He received his Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Zurich in 2004. He is the author of several publications on rap music in sub-Saharan Africa in journals and edited volumes. His other publications focus on further forms of popular culture, such as soccer and video films, as well as education. He is currently researching the emergence of new figures of success in Western and Eastern Africa. Daniel Künzler may be reached by e-mail at: daniel.kuenzler@unifr.ch.
Stephanie Matti is a graduate student in the International Studies (Political Science) Program at the Graduate Institute, Geneva. She is also an intern in the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. She [End Page 130] has published journal articles on postconflict Congolese politics and resource management, including "Resources and Rent-Seeking in the Democratic Republic of the Congo" (Third World Quarterly, 2010) and "The Democratic Republic of the Congo? Corruption, Patronage, and Competitive Authoritarianism in the DRC" (Africa Today, 2010). Her research interests include the political economy of conflict, humanitarian reform, and the prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse in postconflict situations. Stephanie Matti may be reached by e-mail at: steph.matti@gmail.com.
Uta Reuster-Jahn is a lecturer for Swahili at the Asien-Afrika-Institut, University of Hamburg, Germany. She received her Ph.D. in African Language Studies at the University of Mainz in 2000. She has published numerous articles on oral literature in Tanzania, as well as on Swahili popular literature, popular music, and youth language. Recently, she has been conducting research in Tanzania on Bongo Flava, the so-called "music of the new generation." Uta Reuster-Jahn may be reached by e-mail at: uta.reuster-jahn@uni-hamburg.de.
Sylvanus N. Spencer received his Ph.D. from the University of Sierra Leone. He is a lecturer in the Department of History and African Studies at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone. His research interests include urbanization and social change and the transition of human rights in postwar settings. Sylvanus N. Spencer may be reached by e-mail at: nickspencer2007@yahoo.co.uk. [End Page 131]
