Contributors
- Contributors
Yacine Daddi Addoun is is an Assistant Professor of African & African-American Studies. He received his PhD from York University, Toronto, Canada, his MA From l’INALCO in Paris and his BA from the University of Algiers in Algeria. His research focuses on issues of slavery and its abolition in Algeria. He is the co-editor of SHADD (Studies in the History of the African Diaspora Documents) of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and Its Diasporas. adaddi@ku.edu
Idrissou Alioum est titulaire d’un PhD d’histoire de l’Université de Yaoundé I au Cameroun, institution dans laquelle il enseigne également. Ses travaux de recherche portent sur l’histoire sociale et culturelle de l’Afrique et du Cameroun notamment l’histoire de l’enfermement, du contrôle social et de la marginalité ; l’histoire des pratiques et représentations esclavagistes et serviles dans les sociétés « lignagères » ; l’histoire des constructions des « luttes » contre les maladies dites sociales. Ancien résident de l’Institut d’Etudes Avancées de Nantes (2013-2014), il est l’auteur de Société carcérale et domination européenne au Cameroun, 1884-1960 (2014). Il est membre de plusieurs centres et instituts de recherche dont le Centre Africain de Recherches sur les Traites et l’Esclavage (CARTE) de l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar au Sénégal et le Centre de Recherches Pluridisciplinaires sur les Traites et l’Esclavage en Afrique basé à Yaoundé au Cameroun. iddrisoualioum@yahoo.fr
Richard Anderson is a PhD candidate in Africa history at Yale University, focusing on pre- colonial and colonial West Africa. His dissertation, entitled “Recaptives: Community and Identity in Sierra Leone, 1808-1863,” explores the social and cultural history of freed slaves settled in and around Sierra Leone’s capital of Freetown. Prior to Yale, he studied history and political science at the University of Waterloo and African Studies at the University of Oxford. richard.anderson@yale.edu
Bruce Hall is associate professor of African and African American Studies at Duke University. His first book, A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600-1960, is about the development of ideas about racial difference along the West African Sahel. Research for this project focused in and around the Malian town of Timbuktu. His current research centers on a 19th-century commercial network that connected Timbuktu with Ghadames (Libya), and which involved a number of literate slaves as commercial agents. bh71@duke.edu [End Page 257]
Philip J. Havik is senior researcher at the Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (IHMT) and teacher in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Universidade Nova in Lisbon, Portugal. His multi-disciplinary research—which combines political science, anthropology, economics and history—centers on the study of public health, tropical medicine, state formation, colonial administration, development, cultural brokerage and female entrepreneurship, with a special emphasis on the Guinea Bissau region. He has authored four books and numerous other publications on Luso-African history. philip.havik@gmail.com
David Lishilinimle Imbua teaches in the Department of History and International Studies at the University of Calabar, Nigeria, and is author of Intercourse and Crosscurrents in the Atlantic World: Calabar-British Experience, 17th-20th Centuries (2012). He is also the author of several book chapters and articles in learned national and international journals, as well as several books that traverse history and historical fiction. imbuadave@yahoo.com
Jamie Bruce Lockhart is a former British diplomat who first took an interest in pre-colonial West Africa when serving in Lagos, Nigeria in the late 1980s. A reading of Captain Hugh Clapperton’s Journal of a Second Expedition led him to follow in the footsteps of the Scottish explorer cross-country from the coast to the desert’s edge and from Lake Chad in the East to Borgu in the West. He is the author of a number of articles on Clapperton’s travels and has contributed to the discussion on methods of transcription of 19th-century journals of travel. His biography of Hugh Clapperton appeared in 2007. jamie56@lochlong.org.uk
Paul E. Lovejoy is Distinguished Research Professor and Canada Research Chair in African...
