Contributors
- Contributors
Osman Antwi-Boateng is an assistant professor of international relations at United Arab Emirates University. He received his Ph.D. in political science and international relations from the University of Delaware in 2010. He formally served as a visiting assistant professor of international relations at St. Lawrence University in New York. He is the author of “After War then Peace: The U.S-based Liberian Diaspora as Peace-Building Norm Entrepreneurs,” Journal of Refugee Studies (Oxford University Press, 2011). His research interests include the political economy of African conflicts and the role of the U.S-based African diaspora in war and peace building. He may be contacted by e-mail at antwiboateng@gmail.com.
Felix M. Edoho is a professor of business administration/management and director of the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Business Development at Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Missouri. He received his Ph.D. in public policy from Delaware University in 1992. He has published many journal articles on wide-ranging issues. He is editor of Globalization and the New World Order: Promises, Problems, and Prospects for Africa in the Twenty-First Century (Praeger, 1997) and Management Challenges for Africa in the Twenty-First Century: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives (Praeger, 2003). He is currently completing a manuscript on globalization, corporate social responsibility, and environmental sustainability. He may be contacted by e-mail at edohof@lincolnu.edu.
Fouad Makki is an assistant professor of development sociology at Cornell University. His teaching and research interests include classical and contemporary social theory, the historical sociology of modernity, the postwar development initiative, and the contested dynamics of nationalism and colonial empires. His most recent essays are “Empire and Modernity: Dynastic Centralization and Official Nationalism in Late Imperial Ethiopia,” Cambridge Review of International Affairs 24:2 (2011), and “The Spatial Ecology of Power: Long-Distance Trade and State Formation in Northeast Africa,” Journal of Historical Sociology 24:2 (2011). He may be contacted by e-mail at fmm2@cornell.edu.
Thabo Msibi is a lecturer in curriculum studies and HIV/AIDS education at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He is currently completing his Ph.D. at Cambridge University, in England, focusing on the sexuality of African teachers. He has published articles on sexuality, sexual orientation, and education. His research interests include African sexualities, gender, and empire. He may be contacted by e-mail at msibi@ukzn.ac.za. [End Page 142]
Ogaga Okuyade received his Ph.D. from the University of Ibadan. He is currently head of the English Department at the College of Education Warri, Delta State, Nigeria. His scholarly interests include postcolonial studies, politics of identity constructions, politics in postcolonial texts, and other popular art forms. He is presently guest editing a special issue for IMBIZO: International Journal of African Literary and Comparative Studies on the writings of Wole Soyinka twenty-five years after the Nobel. He may be contacted by e-mail at gagokus@yahoo.com. [End Page 143]
