Contributors
- Contributors
Paul Darby is a lecturer in the sociology of sport at the University of Ulster, Jordanstown. He has written widely on the relationship between Europe and Africa as mediated by football. He is currently undertaking research on identity, Gaelic sport and Irish immigrants, and is Senior academic editor of the international journal Soccer and Society. He received his doctorate from the University of Ulster in 1997.
Janet Berry Hess is Assistant Professor of Art History in the Hutchins School at Sonoma State University. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University, and has lectured at the University of Cape Town, the University of California Santa Cruz, and Northwestern University. Her book Gazing at the King: African Nationalism and Popular Culture is forthcoming with McFarland and Company Press. She has published numerous articles on the issues of nationalism, architecture, and visual culture.
William F. S. Miles is Professor of Political Science and Chair of International Development at Northeastern University, Boston. His Ph.D. is from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. As a Fulbright scholar in Nigeria (1983–1984, 1986), Miles was Research Associate with the Department of Sociology at Bayero University, Kano. Previously (1977-1979) he had served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Niger. In 1988, he published Elections in Nigeria: A Grassroots Perspective (Lynne Rienner Publishers). His Hausaland Divided: Colonialism and Independence in Nigeria and Niger (Cornell University Press, 1994) was selected by Choice magazine as an "Outstanding Academic Book" and cited in the Encyclopedia Brittanica Book of the Year for having made a "significant contribution to learning" in the field of History of Mankind.
Diri I.Teilanyo obtained a B.A. Ed Honours degree from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and an M.A. degree in English from the University of Benin, Nigeria. He is presently waiting to defend his Ph.D degree from the same University on the Use of Non-Standard English for Artistic Expression. He has published articles in several journals on English as a Second Language, literary stylistics, and translatology.
Ian E. A. Yeboah is Associate Professor of Geography and Black World Studies at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Calgary, Canada, in 1994. His research and publications focus on economic status of urban residents and spatial structure of urban places in Sub-Saharan Africa. He has extensive research experience in Ghana.
