Contributors
- Contributors
Piet Konings is senior researcher at the African Studies Centre in Leiden (The Netherlands). He received his Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the Catholic University of Tilburg in 1977. He has published widely on the political economy and labor in Africa, especially in Ghana and Cameroon. His most recent book is Negotiating an Anglophone Identity: A Study of the Politics of Recognition and Representation in Cameroon (Brill, 2003) analyzing the struggles for federalism and secession in Anglophone Cameroon.
John Kemoli Sagala is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona. He received his MA in Political Science (2001) and a Master of Public Policy Analysis (2003) from the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa. He has co-authored several book chapters and single-authored several journal articles. His research interests include HIV/AIDS and African development, disease epidemics and military forces, the Horn of Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Sudan), U.S. foreign policy toward Africa, and the changing faces of international security.
Mahir Şaul is associate professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University, Bloomington. He has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on social organization, agriculture, trade, precolonial political and economic history, transition to colonialism, and film, on the basis of fieldwork and archival research in West Africa. He is the co-author (with Patrick Royer) of West African Challenge to Empire: Culture and History in the Volta-Bani Anticolonial War (Ohio University Press, 2001).
Leander Schneider is assistant professor of Political Science at Concordia University in Montreal. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2003. His work focuses on the nexus between the postcolonial Tanzanian state's paternalistic political imagination and its frequently coercive and authoritarian development initiatives. He is currently working on a related monograph. Recent publications have appeared in the Canadian Journal of African Studies and the African Studies Review.
Katherine A. Snyder is associate professor of Anthropology at Queens College, City University of New York. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Yale University in 1993. She is the author of The Iraqw of Tanzania: Negotiating Rural Development (Westview Press) and she has published [End Page 151] various articles on religion, politics, personhood, and agrarian change in Tanzania. She is currently conducting research on the culture of democracy and civil society in Tanzania and Kenya. [End Page 152]
