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Contributors Augustine H. Agwuele holds degrees in German, English, and Pedagogy from the Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany. His research interests include natural language processing, syntax, phonetics, and phonology, and he has contributed chapters to various books. Christine Ayorinde has a Ph.D. on Afro-Cuban religion from the Centre of West African Studies at the University of Birmingham, U.K. Current and forthcoming publications include chapters in Identity in the Shadow of Slavery, Control and Resistance in the Century after Emancipation in the Caribbean, and Repercussions of the Atlantic Slave Trade: The Interior of the Bight of Benin and the African Diaspora. Matt D. Childs is an assistant professor in Caribbean history at Florida State University. He earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of Texas at Austin (2001). He has published articles in the Journal of Latin American Studies, The Americas, The Historian, and the History Workshop Journal. Gibril R. Cole holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he currently teaches African history. His scholarly research interests include the development of Krio society of Sierra Leone and the Krio diaspora, the African diaspora, and Islam in the Atlantic world. David Eltis is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of History at Emory University in Atlanta . His publications include Rise of African Slavery in the Americas, The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Database on CD-ROM, and several articles in the Journal of African History, Economic History Review, and the Journal of Economic History. He is 447 Falola_Childs,Yoruba Diaspo 2/2/05 1:34 PM Page 447 the editor of Coerced and Free Migrations: Global Perspectives and Slavery in the Development of the Americas, and co-editor of the four-volume Cambridge World History of Slavery. Toyin Falola is the Frances Higginbothom Nalle Centennial Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin. His published works include Key Events in African History: A Reference Guide, Nationalism and African Intellectuals, and several edited volumes including Tradition and Change in Africa and African Writers and the Readers. He is co-editor of the Journal of African Economic History, series editor of Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora, and series editor of the Culture and Customs of Africa. C. Magbaily Fyle is a professor of African history in the Department of African American and African Studies at Ohio State University. His publications include The History of Sierra Leone: A Concise Introduction and the two-volume Introduction to the History of African Civilization. Rosalyn Howard is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Central Florida. She specializes in the African diaspora with a focus on the Caribbean region, and in African/Native American relations. Her published works include Black Seminoles in the Bahamas. Robin Law is a professor of African history at the University of Stirling, Scotland. His publications include The Oyo Empire c. 1600–c.1836 and The Slave Coast of West Africa, 1550–1750. He edited From Slave Trade to “Legitimate” Commerce: The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth-Century West Africa, and co-edited, with Silke Strickrodt, Ports of the Slave Trade. Babatunde Lawal received his masters and doctorate degrees in art history from Indiana University. He is a professor of African and African American Art in the Department of Art History at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. He is the author of The Gelede Spectacle: Art, Gender, and Social Harmony in an African Culture. He is on the editorial boards of the Art Bulletin, CAA Reviews, and Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide, among others. Russell Lohse is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of “Slave-Trade Nomenclature and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Evidence from Early Eighteenth-Century Costa Rica,” Slavery and Abolition 23, no. 3. Paul E. Lovejoy is a Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of History at York University, Canada, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He holds the Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History and is director of the Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora at York. He is the author or editor of more than twenty books and has written more than fifty-five articles and chapters in edited books. He is the co-author, with Robin Law, of The Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua: His Passage from Slavery to Freedom in Africa and America. contributors 448 Falola_Childs,Yoruba Diaspo 2/2/05 1:34 PM Page 448 [18...