Contributors
- Contributors
Robert Mbe Akoko is senior lecturer in Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Buea, Cameroon. He has done extensive research on Christianity in Cameroon. He has just finished a manuscript on the Pentecostalization of the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon (PCC). His current research is on Pentecostalism and the economic crisis in Cameroon. He has published articles in numerous journals including the Nordic Journal of African Studies, Journal of Third World Studies, and Journal for the Study of Religion. He is a member of the CORDESRIA working group on Civil Society and the Search for Development Alternatives in Cameroon.
Patrick L. Day is assistant professor of French at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire. He received his Ph.D. in French from Tulane University in 1993. Forthcoming publications include articles on the poetry of Aimé Césaire, Léon-Gontran Damas, René Depestre, and Edouard Glissant to be included in the Companion to 20th Century World Poetry (New York: Facts on File). He has also completed an article on Mongo Beti and his novel, Mission to Kala, for the Compendium on 20th Century Novelists and Novels (New York: Facts on File). His research interests include French literature (18th-21st centuries) and francophone literature of all countries outside of France.
Danny Hoffman is assistant professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington, Seattle. He received his Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University in 2004. He is the author of journal articles on violence and militia movements in West Africa and is currently working on a manuscript on the Civil Defense Forces in Sierra Leone.
Jean Ngoya Kidula is assistant professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Georgia, Athens. She received her Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1998. She has published articles on gospel music in Kenya and in the United States and on the dynamics of music in national and cultural history. She is currently working on a manuscript on Music in African Christianity.
Timothy Mbuagbo Oben is senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Buea, Cameroon. He received an M.Sc. in Sociology from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria in 1991. He has [End Page 134] published articles in numerous journals such as Social Identities, Journal of Third World Studies, and Journal of Social Development in Africa. He is presently working on State-Society Relationship in Cameroon. He was laureate at the Governance Institute Dakar in 2004.
