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Volume 57, Number 4, Summer 2011Editorial Board
Editors
Eileen Julien
Maria Grosz-Ngaté
Patrick McNaughton
Samuel Obeng
Book Review Editor
A.B. Assensoh
Managing Editor
Hassan Wahab
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