Notes on Contributors

Chiji Akoma is Assistant Professor of English at Loyola University in Chicago.

Kangni A. Alem is a playwright, actor, and director of the Togolese-based company Atelier Théâtre de Lomé. He is a member of the Centre d'Etudes des Littératures Francophones et Antillaises at the University of Bordeaux-III in France.

Daniel Avorgbedor is a professor in the Department of African-American and African Studies and the Department of Music at The Ohio State University

Nicholas Brown is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois-Chicago.

Laura Chrisman lectures in postcolonial theory and South African literature in the School of African and Asian Studies at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK.

Catherine Cole is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Dramatic Art at the University of California-Santa Barbara.

John Conteh-Morgan is a professor in the Department of French and Italian as well as the Department of African-American and African Studies at The Ohio State University. He is also Associate Editor of Research in African Literatures.

Chris Dunton is Professor of English at the University of North-West in Mombatho, South Africa.

Johannes Fabian is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam.

Joachim Fiebach is Professor of Theater Studies and Cultural Communication at Humboldt University in Berlin.

Anne Fuchs is a member of the Faculté des Lettres, Arts, et Sciences Humaines at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis.

James Gibbs, who has lectured at universities in Ghana, Malawi, Belgium, and Nigeria, is currently teaching in Bristol and collaborating on a project with Jack Mapanje.

Marie-José Hourantier is a professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Abidjan and Director of Bin-Kadi So.

Loren Kruger teaches English, Comparative Literature, and African Studies at the University of Chicago. She is out-going Editor of Theatre Journal.

Pius Ngandu Nkashama is a professor at the University of Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle.

Anthère Nzabatsinda is a professor in the Department of French and Italian at Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee).

Tejumola Olaniyan is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Virginia (Charlottesville).

Isidore Okpewho is a professor in the Department of Africana Studies at Binghamton University in New York.

Robert Philipson received his PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin. He wrote his dissertation on Ebrahim Hussein.

Alain Ricard is with the Centre D'Etudes d'Afrique Noire at the Universities of Bordeaux.

Sandra L. Richards is a professor in the Department of African-American Studies and the Department of Theatre Studies at Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois).

Wole Soyinka, a Nobel Prize Laureate, is a professor in the Department of African American Studies at Emory University (Atlanta).

Sidibé Valy is a professor in the Department of Modern Letters at the University of Cocody in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

Bob W. White is a Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at McGill University in Montreal and an Assitant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California-Santa Cruz.