Contributors
- Contributors
Olabanji Akinola, oakinola@uoguelph.ca, is a political scientist whose research interests include comparative development, democracy, and politics in Africa. He obtained his undergraduate Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, and a Master of Arts degree in International Studies (with specialization in Political Science) from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland. He also holds another Master of Arts in Political Science and International Development Studies from the University of Guelph where he is currently a PhD Candidate. He has published in peer-reviewed journals and books.
Adetayo Alabi, aalabi@olemiss.edu, is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Mississippi, where he teaches and researches world literatures and cultures in English, particularly African, African American, and Afro Caribbean. He studied in Nigeria and Canada and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Saskatchewan. Before joining the University of Mississippi, he taught postcolonial and international literatures at Millikin University in Illinois and at the University of Windsor in Canada. He is the outgoing editor of The Global South, a journal published by Indiana University Press, and the author of Telling Our Stories: Continuities and Divergences in Black Autobiographies. His other publications have appeared in books and journals.
Matthew H. Brown, mhbrown@wisc.edu, is a PhD Candidate in the Department of African Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He specializes in African cinema, literature, and popular culture, as well as postcolonial cultural studies more broadly. In addition to teaching and research, he organizes an ongoing A. W. Mellon workshop on “New Media and Mass/Popular Culture in the Global South” at UW-Madison. His dissertation, titled “The Long Nollywood Century: Colonial Cinema, Nationalist Literature, State Television, and Video Film,” combines new media history with genre history to systematically argue that, while Nigerian video films affirm the empowering possibilities of new media, they are also actively remediating political and aesthetic processes that have been underway since at least the colonial era.
Ifeanyi Ezeonu, iezeonu@brocku.ca, is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Brock University, Ontario, Canada. He is a graduate of the Universities of Cambridge, Leeds and Toronto. His current research interests [End Page 200] include critical gang studies, critical security studies, international political economy, and contemporary African Diaspora.
Jumoke Giwa-Isekeije, jisekeije@gmail.com, is completing her PhD in Media Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies, a Master of Arts in Popular Culture and a Master of Arts in Social Justice and Equity Studies from Brock University, Ontario, Canada. Her areas of research include the representation of women in cultural texts, minority groups’ access to communication tools and new media’s role in re/shaping public spheres in the twenty first century.
Cajetan Iheka, ihekacaj@msu.edu, is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at Michigan State University. His research interests include African Literatures, African Cinema, and World Anglophone Literatures. He is particularly interested in postcolonial ecologies and their intersection with literature, film, history, and politics. He is currently working on a dissertation tentatively titled Can the Environment Speak? This project examines the contributions of African cultural productions to the ecological discourses on the continent.
Alessandro Jedlowski, alessandro.jedlowski@gmail.com, is a Marie Curie-BEIPD/COFUND post-doctoral fellow in Anthropology at the University of Liege, Belgium, and a member of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Africa of the University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Italy. His most recent publications focus on the Nigerian video industry, and include the articles “On the periphery of Nollywood: Nigerian Video Filmmaking in Italy and the Emergence of Intercultural Aesthetics” (in Postcolonial Italy: Challenging National Homogeneity, eds. C. Lombardi-Diop and C. Romeo, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), “From Nollywood to Nollyworld: Processes of Transnationalization in the Nigerian Video Industry” (in Global Nollywood: Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry, eds M. Krings and O. Okome, Indiana University Press, 2013), and “Small Screen Cinema: Informality and Remediation in Nollywood” (Television and New Media, 13.5).
Carmen McCain, carmenmccain@yahoo.com and http://carmenmccain.com, is a PhD Candidate in the Department of African Languages...
