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Contributors Michael Bamidele Adeyemi teaches social studies education in the Department of Languages and Social Sciences Education at the University of Botswana, Gaborone. He earned an M.A. in education from the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) in Nigeria and an M.S. and Ph.D. in social studies education from Indiana University. His research focuses on the theory and practice of social studies and global education. His articles have appeared in many international journals and he has edited and written many volumes on social studies education. Mira Aghi was one of the pioneers of the tradition of formative research for program development in India. She has trained researchers in South Asia, eastern and southern Africa, and South America in qualitative research methodologies for over twenty years. She earned her Ph.D. in psychology from Loyola University, Chicago, and has served as principal researcher for communication technology projects in the United States, South Asia, and Africa. She was also senior program officer with Canada’s International Development Research Centre. She is presently working with WHO on a global tobacco use intervention aimed at women. Janet Amegatcher grew up and was educated in Ghana. She trained as a teacher at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. 247 You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. After teaching for four years, she returned to the Ghana School of Law to earn a degree—motivated by a strong desire to fight for the rights of the weak and underprivileged. She is currently a human rights advocate. Aadielah Anderson has an interest in health promotion and works with the Soul City Institute of Health and Development Communication in South Africa. She is presently responsible for developing and managing the second Soul Buddyz series. She has served as a consultant to the BBC World Service Trust’s HIV/AIDS media project in India. Tanja Bosch is a doctoral student in the School of Telecommunications at Ohio University. She holds an M.A. in Communication and Development Studies from Ohio University. Tanja has worked as a production assistant in the local film industry in Cape Town, as a programmer and producer for Bush Radio, and as a producer and consultant to Roots FM in Jamaica and UNESCO in Trinidad and Barbados. She is currently working on a dissertation on the role of community radio in postapartheid South Africa, at Bush Radio in Cape Town. Rachel Carnegie earned an M.A. in education from Sussex University. In Bhutan she was health education program adviser with Save the Children. In Bangladesh she was health education consultant to a range of NGOs and creative consultant to UNICEF for the Meena Communication Initiative. Since 1994 she has been a core adviser to the Sara Communication Initiative in Africa and is currently a consultant on lifeskills education, health promotion, and participatory communication . Recent work includes a source book on female genital mutilation and a review of the lifeskills education initiative in Uganda. 248 / Contributors You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. Alicia Skinner Cook, professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at Colorado State University, is a licensed psychologist with an interest in intervention programs for the bereaved. In Kenya she helped design a needs assessment instrument for children affected by HIV/AIDS and was a senior technical consultant on two USAID-funded projects . She has published more than forty articles, including work on the ethics of bereavement research. She has developed and taught courses on death, dying, and grief and has coauthored Dying and Grieving (2d ed.) and a book for therapists and counselors , Helping the Bereaved, that is used in many countries. Farid Esack is a Muslim theologian who played a leading role in the struggle against apartheid. He currently serves as trustee of the Treatment Action Campaign and is director of Positive Muslims, an organization working with Muslims who are HIV positive. Susan Fox has an M.A. in international relations and is currently project manager at the Centre for AIDS Development Research and Evaluation in Johannesburg. Janet Julia Fritz is a professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at Colorado State...