Contributors
- Contributors
Kofi Anyidoho is a poet, professor of literature, and director of the African Humanities Institute Program at the University of Ghana-Legon, where he also served as Ag. Director of the School of Performing Arts. He holds an M.A. in Folklore (Indiana University at Bloomington) and a Ph.D in Comparative Literature (University of Texas at Austin). His earlier creative work includes four collections of poetry and a bilingual play in English and Ewe. PraiseSong for TheLand, his most recent work, was released in November 2002 with a companion CD recording of the poems and songs in Ewe performed by the poet. He has published many scholarly articles and coedited numerous major books on African literature.
Bill Derman, a professor of anthropology at Michigan State University, has been carrying out research in Zimbabwe since 1987, after a long period of research in West Africa. His interests are in environment and change, planned rural development, analyses of development projects, and, more recently, decentralization of natural resource-management institutions. For five years, beginning in 1989, he conducted a study of the Mid-Zambezi Rural Development Project, carried out in communal lands in Zimbabwe.
Babacar Fall is an associate professor of history in the Department of History and Geography, École Normale Supérieure, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, in Dakar, Senegal. In 1989-1990, he was a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research on labor history has resulted in numerous publications, including the book Le travail forcé en Afrique Occidentale Française: 1900-1946 (Karthala, 1993).
Sandra E. Greene is a professor of history and chair of the Department of History at Cornell University. She has authored two books, Gender, Ethnicity and Social Change on the Upper Slave Coast: A History of the Anlo-Ewe (Heinemann, 1996) and Sacred Sites and the Colonial Encounter: A History of Meaning and Memory in Ghana (Indiana University Press, 2002), and numerous articles. Her current research projects include a compilation of narratives about the Atlantic slave trade and a study of law, punishment, and social order in Ghana.
D. A. Masolo, a native of Kenya, received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the Gregorian University in Rome in 1980, and now teaches in the departments of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of Louisville. His many publications include African Philosophy as Cultural Inquiry (co-edited with Ivan Karp, Indiana University Press, 2000) and African Philosophy in Search of Identity (Indiana University Press, 1994).
