Contributors
- Contributors
Nicodemus Fru Awasom is Senior Lecturer in History in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Gambia. He is the holder of a Doctorat de 3ème Cycle in History from the University of Yaoundé in Cameroon and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. He is Cameroon's leading expert in Constitutional History, and an International Consultant on the Anglophone problem in Cameroon. He is a recipient of the prestigious Lawrence Dunbar Reddick Memorial Scholarship Award for the best article on Africa published in the Journal of Third World Studies, academic year 1998. He has published articles in other refereed journals, including Paideuma and Epasa Moto UNIBUEA. His current academic interests include Constitutional Political Economy, Intergroup Relations, the Anglophone Problem in Cameroon, and the Resurgence of Islamic Fundamentalism in Africa.
Hannah E. Britton is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Mississippi State University. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University in 1999. Her research focuses on African politics, gender studies, and democratization and development.
Emily Frank is currently a Ph.D. student at Indiana University in the Department of Anthropology. Her current research interests include gender dynamics and ethnicity in conflicts on the Horn of Africa and changing inheritance laws and property disputes in southern Africa.
Zine Magubane is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and African Studies at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Her book Bringing the Empire Home: Imaging of Race, Class, and Gender in Britain and Colonial South Africa is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press. She has edited the volume Postmodernism, Postcoloniality, and African Studies, published by Africa World Press (2002). With Reitu Mabokela she is currently coediting a volume entitled Black South African Women in the Academy, to be published by Routledge.
Helen Meyer is an Assistant Professor of education at the University of Cincinnati. She received her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2000. She worked in Namibia between August of 1995 and December 1997 during the initial years of the teacher-education reform. Her research interests include systemic education reform and the role of education in development.
