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Volume 57, Number 2, Winter 2010Editorial Board
Editors
Gracia Clark
Maria Grosz-Ngaté
John Hanson
Ruth Stone
Book Review Editor
Marion Frank-Wilson
Managing Editor
Liz McMahon
Africa Today Associates
Robert Browne
Edward A. Hawley
George Houser, Treasurer
Tilden J. LeMelle, Vice President
James Scarritt
George W. Shepherd
Akbarali H. Thobhani, Secretary
Richard Lapchick
Editorial Consultants
Olufemi Babarinde
Charles Becker
Catherine Boone
Dennis Brutus
Michael Chege
Marshall Clough
Robert Cummings
Jendayi E. Frazer
Kenneth Jackson, Jr.
Williard R. Johnson
Elizabeth Landis
Gottfried O. Lang
Wilbert LeMelle
John Marcum
Jonathan N. Moyo
Binaifer Nowrojee
Julius Nyang'oro
Oyeronke Oyewumi
Charles Piot
Donald Rothchild
Nancy J. Schmidt
Timothy Shaw
W.A.E. Skurnik
Timothy Smith
Karamo Sonko
Immanuel Wallerstein
Ronald Walters
Sheldon Weeks
Peter Weiss
James B. Wolf
