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Welcome to the Abstracts and Bios section! Click on the letter range to find the Abstract or Panelist you desire. Richard A. Aborisade is an associate researcher of Crime and Deviant Behaviour at the Department of Sociology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan , Nigeria. He holds the following degrees in Sociology all from the University of Ibadan: B.Sc (2000), M.Sc (2003) and Ph.D. (2008) in Crime and Deviant Behaviour.His research interest is predominantly in Gender/Sexual Violence, Child Abuse/Delinquencies and Family Disorganization. Mohammed Sanni Abdulkadir is a Professor of Economic History at Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria. Balogun Temitope Abiodun , lectures at Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Nigeria, in the Department of English. Her research areas are Pragmatics, Stylistics, Discourse Analysis and Functional Linguistics. She has attended international conferences in Ghana, Leicester (U.K.) and Minnesota in America. She has published articles in reputable journals both home and abroad. George Abosede is Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies at Barnard College and Columbia University in New York City. She received her PhD in African history from Stanford University in Stanford, California. She has published on the class politics of Olufadekemi Adagbada PhD., is the head of department of Nigerian Languages and Literatures, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye. Oluwaseun Adeola Adenugba is an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ogun State, Nigeria. She has a first degree in Philosophy at Olabisi Onabanjo University, a Master degree in Philosophy at the University of Ibadan and a Master in Bioethics in consortium of three Universities which includes Katholieke University Leuven, St. Radboud University, Nijmegen and University of Padova, Italy. She is currently on a Ph.D. programme at the University of Ibadan. Ibigbolade Simon Aderibigbe, received his B. A. Philosophy and Religious Studies, M. A. and Ph. D. Religious Studies from the University of Ibadan, Ibadan , Nigeria. He also earned a Diploma in Religious studies at the SS. Peter and Paul Catholic Major Seminary, Bodija, Ibadan, Nigeria. Dr. Aderibigbe taught for many years at the Lagos State University, Ojo, Lagos , Nigeria, where he rose to become an Associate professor and Head of Religions' Department. His main fields of instruction and research were Philosophy of Religion, African Religion, Phenomenology of Religion, Comparative study of Religion and Sociology of Religion. His research efforts have yielded significant contribution to scholarship and Knowledge through many Publications, some of which are: Books ( Fundamentals of Philosophy of Religion; Thomas Aquinas’ Demonstration of God’s Existence: A Cotemporary Perspective; Topical Issues In African Religion.); Edited Books -(Religion: Study and Practice; Religion and the Environment; Religion, Medicine and Healing.); Chapters in Books- (Traditional Healing System among the Yoruba; religion and Human Ethics.); Articles in Journals- (African Religion and Christianity in Dialogue: An Appraisal of the African Perspective). During the 2008 spring and summer, Dr. Aderibigbe taught Religions of Africa and African Diaspora at the Africana Studies Department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Currently, Aderibigbe teaches African Religion at the University of Georgia. His area of research interest is African Religion in Africa and African Diaspora, and he is involved with other colleagues in a book project: Contemporary Study in Religions of Africa and African Diaspora. Adeyinka Abideen Aderinto is a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.His research interests cut across social problems, deviance and Childhood, and he has published in these areas in reputable journals.Dr. Aderinto served as acting Head of Sociology at Lagos State University, Nigeria during his sabattical leave, and is currently the coordinator of Postgraduate Programmes at the Department of Sociology at the University of Ibadan, Ibadan. Adérónké Adésolá Adésànyà is a Visiting Professor in the School of Art and Art History, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia. Adésànyà is an Art Historian, cartoonist, illustrator and poet whose scholarship explores the interconnectedness of Yoruba art, gender studies and conflict studies. She co-edited with Toyin Falola and Niyi Afolabi Migrations and Creative Expressions in Africa and the African Diasporas, a collection of essays published by Carolina Academic Press, USA, 2008. She also co-authored with Toyin Falola, Etches of Fresh Waters, a collection of poems also published by Carolina Academic Press, USA in 2008. She has contributed chapters to several edited volumes. Sherifat Omolola Adesunkanmi is lecturer in the department of Management and Accounting of Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Her areas of interest are in Human Resource, Entrepreneurship, Public Finance and Gender. Dele Adeyanju , PhD, is a senior lecturer in the Department of English, University of Ibadan. Aje-Ori Agbese teaches in the communication department at the University of Texas Pan American. Her research interests include Nigerian media history, African media and politics, global mass media, intercultural communication, Nigerian movies, and women and the media. She has worked in different capacities in public relations, journalism and social organizations in Nigeria and the United States. Yaw Sarkodie-Agyeman is a lecturer at the Department of Religions and Human Values at the University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana. His research interest is on Religion and Governance, which focuses on the relationship between indigenous religious institutions and their underpinning worldview and governance among one African people, the Asante of Ghana and how this impacts on the current attempt to integrate traditional governance into contemporary local governance in Ghana. He has received numerous award including the Cadbury Fellowship, Centre for West African Studies (CWAS), University of Birmingham, UK, March – June 2008; Commonwealth Scholarship for a Split-Site PhD at the University of Birmingham, UK, September 2005 – September 2006 ; GET fund Dissertation Award, University of Ghana, Legon-Accra, Ghana, 2005-2007; and The Netherlands Fellowship (Nuffic), Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands, April – June 2004. His recent publications include a book chapter on African Studies entitled “Okomfo Anokye and Nation Building in Ghana: A Reflection on Ancestors, Myth and Nation Building.” Elizabeth Adenike Ajayi is a Chief Lecturer in History at the Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Otto-Ijanikin, Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria. Her co- authored, The Awori of Lagos State was published in 1996. She initiated a series of journals now known as the JASSLINK. She has attended and presented papers at several seminars and conferences, national and international and her papers at some of these conferences have been published in different volumes. Her current research interest is in the area of transformation in women’s role in the Church in Lagos State. She is an ordained pastor of the Root of David Assembly, Ijanikin, Lagos. She is currently the sole administrator of the AOCOED International Secondary School, a coed demonstration school with a student’s population of about 500. She is married with children. Joshua Olusola Akande is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Continuing Education, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile ife, Nigeria. He obtained his Ph.D in Adult Education from University of Ibadan in 1998. He is a member of Nigerian National Council for Adult Education (NNCAE)., he is also a member of International Sociological Association (ISA) since 2007 till date His research interests include Community Development, Adult Education and Community Education. Joe O. Akinmusuru is the Managing Partner of Outcomes Strategies, LLC, a consulting firm that specializes in engineering education, international higher education issues, curriculum development and evaluation, program review and accreditation, faculty development and continuing education, licensure and cross-border practice. With civil engineering degrees from the University of Lagos and Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria, and the University of Sheffield in the UK, Dr. Akinmusuru taught for many years at the University of Ife (a.k.a. Obafemi Awolowo University), Ile-Ife, and was a pioneering faculty in the civil engineering program at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, a program he headed in 1984-87. While still a Reader at Ife, Dr. Akinmusuru emigrated to the United States in 1987 to accept the Martin Luther King – Cesar Chavez – Rosa Parks Visiting Professorship at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He later taught for several years on the civil engineering faculties of Cleveland State University in Ohio and Lawrence Technological University in Michigan, before going into private geotechnical engineering practice, engaged in the design of underground structures. His work with Outcomes Strategies, LLC is in parallel to his engineering consulting activities. Dr. Akinmusuru is a program evaluator with the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET), a body that is responsible for conducting inspection and accreditation visits to all engineering programs in the United States. He has made presentations to conferences of African university presidents, as well as those of deans of science and engineering, on ways of overhauling dated engineering curricula in many universities.. He currently assists several engineering programs in Sub-Saharan African in their program reviews as well as their faculty continuing education. A Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers, Dr. Akinmusuru previously served on the Governing Council of the NSE. He is member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Society of Engineering Education. He is a registered professional engineer in Nigeria, and holds a Professional Engineer license in several states in the United States. For many years, Dr. Akinmusuru has mentored women and people of color in the engineering profession in the Detroit area. Ameh Dennis Akoh is Associate Professor of Theatre theory and criticism at the Osun State University, Nigeria. He attended universities of Jos and Ibadan , Nigeria where he also taught for some years. He has recently been Sub-Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the Kogi State University, Anyigba, Nigeria. His areas of research interest include Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Sociology of Literature, Cultural Studies. He has over 30 publications in refereed local and international journals and books including The Literary Criterion, Journal of Global Initiatives, African Journal of Arts and Cultural Studies, Nigerian Theatre Journal and Lagos Notes and Records. He is the Editor of Nigerian Journal of Indigenous Knowledge and Development. He is currently working on a collection of essays on postcolonialism, community and space. Maurice Amutabi is an Assistant Professor of History at Central Washington University, USA where he teaches the history of Africa and the Middle East. Amutabi holds a PhD in History (Africa) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He received his B.A (Hons) and M.A degrees from the University of Nairobi, Kenya. Amutabi is the author of The NGO Factor in Africa: The Case of Arrested Development in Kenya (New York: Routledge, 2006). Amutabi is co-author of Nationalism and Democracy for People-Centered Development in Africa (Moi University Press, 2000). He has also co-authored Foundations of Adult Education in Africa (Cape Town/Hamburg: Pearson/UNESCO, 2005). He has written two novels, Because of Honor (a novel on Islam in Africa) and These Good People (a novel on corruption in Africa). He is also the author of Nakhamuma Stories (a collection of short stories from the Abaluyia community of western Kenya). Amutabi’s book Islam and Underdevelopment of Africa is forthcoming, 2009). His chapters have appeared in over a dozen books. His articles have appeared in several refereed and reputable journals such as African Studies Review, Canadian Journal of African Studies, International Journal of Educational Development; and Jenda: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies. Amutabi has made presentations at over one hundred national and international conferences. He is the Vice-President of the Kenya Studies and Scholars’ Association (KESSA), Kenya’s premier research and academic organization. Ana Lucia Araujo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Howard University ( Washington, DC). Her research deals with the history and the memory of slavery in Brazil and the Bight of Benin. She published articles in peer-reviewed journals in the United States, Canada and France, including Luso-Brazilian Review, the Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Cahiers Anneaux de la Mémoire and Ethnologie Française. Her first book Romantisme tropical: l’aventure illustrée d’un peintre français au Brésil ( Quebec: Presses de l’ Université Laval, 2008) examined the image of Brazil in the engravings of French travel accounts of nineteenth century, mainly the representations of indigenous populations and enslaved Africans and Afro-Brazilians. She edited the volume Living History: Encountering the Memory of the Heirs of Slavery ( Cambridge Scholars Publishing, New Castle-upon-Tyne, 2009). Her next single-authored book entitled Victims and Perpetrators: Public Memory in the South Atlantic is under contract with Cambria Press ( Amherst, NY). Udoka Asiyanbola is a graduate student in the department of English, University of Ibadan. Bridget Itunu Awosika is a Principal Lecturer and Head, Department of Home Economics, Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, Nigeria. She obtained a First Class Honors degree in Home Economics Education from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria and got a Master of Science (M. Sc) in Clothing and Textiles from the University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria, where she is currently at an advanced stage in her PhD. Her areas of research interest include gender, skill acquisition/empowerment, family sustainability, culture, and fashion. As a member of the International Federation for Home Economics, (IFHE), Home Economics Research Association of Nigeria,(HERAN), Housing Education Research Association (HERA), Montana , Ethical Fashion Forum, (EFF), London, among others. She has attended and presented papers at many national and international conferences, has published three textbooks, and has over twenty articles published in local and international journals. Oluranti Oluronke Ayomola currently lectures in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of Babcock University, Ilishan Remo in Ogun State of Nigeria. Her areas of research interest include Gender Studies, Conflict and Bargainning, War and Strategic Studies. She is happily married to Olajide Ayomola and blessed with two children- a boy and a daughter. Tunji Azeez , playwright, director, poet, literary theorist and critic has a B.A ( Hons) in Dramatic Arts from the Obafemi Awolowo University, with specialization in script writing and directing and an M.A in Theatre Arts from the University of Ibadan with specialization in Dramatic Literature, Theory & Criticism and is currently completing a PhD in the same area. His versatility is evidenced in his creative and scholarly contributions which cover the stage, the screen and the radio. He has devised, written and directed several plays and sketches for national and international organizations, and has also participated in some of the major arts and cultural festivals in Nigeria. As a scholar, he has published in local and international books and journals. His research interests include gender/ feminist theory and criticism, media criticism, Theatre For Development (TFD), and war and insurgence in postcolonial Africa. He is presently artistic director, Optimom Arts Konsotiom (OAK) an arts and media consultancy outfit, and a lecturer in the Department of Theatre Arts & Music, Lagos State University, Lagos, Nigeria. Kolapo Ayodeji Babalola teaches at Bowen University Nigeria. He is currently pursuing a doctorate degree in information science at the University of Ibadan. Mojisola Victoria Badekale is an administrative officer I in the registry department of Osun State Polytechnic Iree, Osun State. She is In charge of Junior Staff Establishment in the Personnel Unit of the Registry. She obtained her B.A Ed English from Obafemi Awolowo University Ile – Ife, Osun State in 2000. Presently, she is a master’s student at the Obafemi Awolowo University Ile – Ife, Osun State. Her research work includes Retraining and Retooling of Female School Teacher Through Part- time degree programme Treena Balds is currently a postgraduate scholar at the University of the West Indies pursuing research in the area of African Literature. Deeply concerned with the educational and social improvement of the members of the African diaspora, she has been an educational facilitator for several years. She is currently joint proprietor of an academic institution dedicated to providing the highest quality education to low-income families in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Her previous academic research has focused on such writers as Henry James, James Joyce, and Tsitsi Dangarembga. Additionally, she maintains an avid interest in the poststructuralist theories of Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida and admires the interdisciplinarity of J. M. Coetzee. Her particular interest in the literature of Africa (and the African diaspora) is twofold: it regards (1) the appropriation of myth and tradition for creating inspiring artistic works that support the decentering of hegemonies and (2) the promotion of alternate perspectives to worldwide consumers of art and culture. Her current research project explores the matrix of the "chthonic realm" illustrated in Wole Soyinka's artistic and critical works, comparing it with the "dark chamber" posited in the works of J. M. Coetzee. Oluyemisi. A. Bamgbose is a Professor of Criminal law and Criminology and the Dean at the Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She was a Visiting Professor at Marquette University School of Law in Fall 2001 and taught International Criminal Law and Procedure. She was also visiting Professor at Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri in Spring 2008 where she taught Juvenile Justice Systems in Nigeria. A Solicitor and Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. Professor Bamgbose is a member of The Nigerian Bar Association, The Nigerian Association of Law Teachers, and the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA). She currently teaches Criminal Law, Comparative Criminal Law and Procedure. and Law of Criminology. Her research focus is in the areas of Criminal Law and Procedure and Criminology. She has adopted an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to her research. Professor Bamgbose has a strong interest in women’s and children’s issues and has about 42 publications on related topics. Adepeju Johnson Bashua is a lecturer in the Department of Religion, at Lagos State University, Nigeria. Her scholarly works have appeared in local and international journals. Temitope Thomson Bello , Ph.D. lectures at the Department of Religious Studies, University of Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria. He studied at the Immanuel College of Theology, Ibadan, University of Ibadan, Nigeria and the University of Ado-Ekiti. He is also an Anglican Archdeacon with training at the Immanuel College of Theology, Ibadan, Nigeria. Codou Bop is a Senegalese activist on woman's rights, human rights, democracy . She is based in Dakar, Senegal, where she serves as the Coordinator for the Groupe de Recherche sur les Femmes ET les Lois au Senegal (GREFELS) which works on sexuality, women with disability citizens’ rights, migration and trafficking in women, and women’s rights in customary and religious laws. Codou has been active with the local and regional feminist movement. She is member of the African Feminist Forum .She has published on women’s reproductive health and sexuality, on homophobia, on women’s access to land, gender-based violence and on migration and citizenship. Janeske Botes is a lecturer in Political Science and Development Studies at Midrand Graduate Institute, South Africa. She holds a BA Journalism degree from Midrand Graduate Institute and a BA Honours and Masters degree in Media Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand. Her research interests include African politics, media and politics, media representation and gender issues. She plans on starting her PhD in Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. Marie Grace Brown ( B.A. Bryn Mawr College; M.A. University of Pennsylvania) is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at the University of Pennsylvania. After graduating from college, she spent two years working at a non-profit organization in Washington DC giving legal aid to immigrant women from the Middle East and North Africa. She specializes in questions of nationalism and feminism in the Sudan and Egypt. Her dissertation focuses on the adoption of a national costume by Sudanese women activists during the independence movements of the 1950s. Her work argues that through the creation of new national symbols like the tobe, Sudanese women were active participants in constructing national identity. Simeon- Fayomi Bolanle Clara is a lecturer in the Department of Continuing Education, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. She is a scholar of the First Data Western Union of AAU/IAA. She is concluding her Ph.D thesis in Entrepreneurial Studies. Her research focus is in Entrepreneurial Education in Higher Education, Women Entrepreneurship, Rural non-farm entrepreneurship and Women Development. She has published her works both nationally and internationally. She has attended many international conferences presenting paper on her research area. She is a member of Nigerian National Council for Adult Education (NNCAE) and of International Sociological Association (ISA). She works among the youth as a counsellor and serves as a motivational speaker in the area of Youth Entrepreneurship and Empowerment. She is also an accomplished event designer and artist. Akinwale Coker, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering atthe Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Technology, University of Ibadan . For about fifteen years in the University of Ibadan, his research has focused on Water and Waste Management Engineering. His doctoral research completed in 2002, delved on the Engineering Applications in the Management of Medical Waste in Nigeria . He has over 35 scientific publications and one patent. He is currently the Acting Head of the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. Ashley Currier is an assistant professor of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies at Texas A&M University. Her prior research focused on Namibian and South African lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) movement strategies. Her current research interests include gender and sexuality in the Namibian national liberation movement and political homophobia in Anglophone Africa. Her research is forthcoming in Gender & Society and Mobilization: An International Journal. She is currently working on a book manuscript, Visibility Matters: LGBT Organizing in Namibia and South Africa. Catherine Cutcher is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Cultural Studies in Education and adjunct faculty in Women's and Gender Studies at Ohio University. She holds a Master of Arts in International Affairs and African Studies. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Anthropology from Kalamazoo College. She worked as the Assistant Director of African Studies and the Coordinator of the Summer Cooperative African Language Institute (SCALI) at Ohio University. She has also organized numerous conferences with the Institute for the African Child. Her research focuses on education, gender, and development among women's grassroots organizations in Kenya. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to Kenya and an American Association of University Women (AAUW) Dissertation Fellowship. Bola Dauda had his first degree in social sciences at the University of Ife in 1974, worked as a teacher and a civil servant in Nigeria between 1974 and 1983, and obtained his masters and doctorate degrees in public administration from the University of Liverpool in 1985 and 1988 respectively. He has held academic positions at the Universities of Liverpool, Leicester, and Edge Hill University College of Lancaster, and he is a life member of the UK Coaching Academy and an honorary fellow of the University of Leicester. He is a published novelist and commentator on the human condition, and an author of half a dozen books, including The American Way, Why Am I Here? and Living a Life of Abundance. He has contributed extensively and effectively to academic discourses in public policy, and his works have been translated to French, Spanish, and Chinese. He recently returned to live in Nigeria with his wife, Omobola, and now spends his spare time in freelance academic research and writing, public speaking, coaching and mentoring, traveling, and writing his memoirs for parents, guardians, and his godchildren. Liza Debevec is a Research Fellow at the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and an Assistant Professor in Anthropology at University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology (2005) from the University of St Andrews, UK. Her research interests include food studies, gender, Islam and urban Africa. Alicia Decker is an Assistant Professor of History and Women’s Studies at Purdue University. She received her Ph.D. in Women’s Studies from Emory University in 2007. She also holds an M.A. in Gender Studies from Makerere University ( Uganda) and a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Minnesota. Her research and teaching interests include post-colonial African history; gender and militarization; armed conflict and forced migration; oral history; and global feminisms. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled, Beyond the Barrel: Gender, Power, and Militarism in Idi Amin’s Uganda, 1971-1979. Naminata Diabate is a Fulbright Alumna from Cote d'Ivoire and a Phd candidate in the Program in Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. Ms. Diabate's academic interests include: African, African American, and Afro-Hispanic women writers, postcolonial theories, gender and sexualities, and feminist theories. Naminata is currently working on her dissertation entitled "The Resisting Body: Representations of Women's Use of Genital Power in West African Literatures and Films." Juliana Braz Dias is Professor of Anthropology at Universidade de Brasilia (UnB), Brazil. Her research interest relates to the process of creolization in Cape Verde. Her earliest research focused on Capeverdean family organization, social reproduction, and the international migration context which characterizes life at the archipelago. When a doctorate candidate in Anthropology, she launched research on Capeverdean popular music and the construction of social identities. The study resulted in the dissertation named Mornas and Coladeiras from Cape Verde: musical versions of a nation. Her reflections on creole reality in Cape Verde have also led to the publication of several articles. Carrza DuBose is a Lecturer in the Department of English at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. He holds a B.A. from Fisk University and an M.F.A. in Writing from Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky.He is currently a Ph.D Candidate in the Department of English at Morgan. His areas include 20th Century African American Literature, psychoanalytic literary theory, gender, queer and masculinist studies. His dissertation will focus on the works of Wallace Thurman and Richard Bruce Nugent. Mfon Umoren Ekpootu is a lecturer in history and diplomatic studies at the University of Port Harcourt Nigeria. She has written several papers and contributed book chapters on women and African sexuality and children in the labour process in Africa. She is a SEPHIS Research Fellow and a SEPHIS –CODESRIA Young Historian. She is presently working on female criminality in Nigeria. Ernest N. Emenyonu A fellow of the Nigerian Academy of letters, and Nigerian Academy of Education, Ernest N. Emenyonu is a Professor of Africana Studies, and until recently, Chair of the Department of Africana Studies, University of Michigan-Flint. A specialist in African Literature, he has taught African Literature in various universities in Nigeria and the United States. He was previously Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Calabar, Nigeria as well as former Provost, Alvan Ikoku College of Education (now Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education), Owerri, Nigeria. He is the author of several works of criticism on African Literature as well as fiction. His recent publications include Emerging Perspectives on Chinua Achebe Vols 1 & 2, (2004), Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi (2009), a collection of short stories, Tales of our Motherland (1999), and a number of children’s books. He is the Editor of the journal, African Literature Today. S. U. Fwatshak is a lecturer in the Department of History and International Studies, University of Jos, Nigeria. He obtained his Ph. D. in History also from the same university in 2003. In the 2000/2001 academic session, he was Fulbright Fellow at New York University, (NYU) New York City, USA. Between 2007 and early 2009, he was Nigeria Country Coordinator of the Volkswagen Foundation Knowledge for Tomorrow Project: “The Sharia Debates in Selected African Countries”. His research interests include Africa’s economic and social history, Islam in Africa, and ICT. Nancy Gakahu is a lecturer in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Masinde Muliro University in Kenya. She holds a Masters of Philosophy in Communication Studies, a Post-Graduate Diploma in Public Relations and a Bachelors of Education in English and Literature. She lectures courses in Gender, Public Relations and Media. She has published widely in the area of Gender and Media Abosede Oluranti Gbenga –Akinbiola is a lecturer in the Department of Languages, Osun State Polytechnic Iree, Nigeria. She obtained her M. A. In Communication and Language Arts from the University of Ibadan in 2003. She is the branch Coordinator of Women in Technical Education and Employment (WITED) in her school. Her research interests include Women and Politics, Motherhood and Early Childhood Education and Female Empowerment. Elnerine Greeff is from the University of South Africa (Unisa), the largest University in this country. She lectures in the Department of Communication Science, as she specializes in Corporate Communication. She holds three degrees in Communication from the North-West University – South Africa. Specifically, Elnerine is very interested in the way in which minorities are communicated to in the diverse context of South African organizations (Internal Communication). It is this interests that lead her into research which deals with women in the mining and construction industry of this country. Natasha Gordon-Chipembere holds a PhD in English from the University of South Africa. Her dissertation was entitled “ From Silence to Speech, From Object to Subject: The Body Politic Investigated in the Trajectory between Sarah Baartman and Contemporary Circumcised African Women’s Writing.” She holds an MA in African Literature from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and an MA in Education and Curriculum Development from Teachers College, Columbia University and a BA in English from Vassar College. She has a number of publications, including articles in Agenda and Changing English. Through a Fulbright Scholar Exchange Fellowship, she will be teaching African Women’s Literature at Chancellor College, University of Malawi, Summer 2010. Her current book projects include a collaborative (auto)biography with Malawian activist, Catherine Chipembere and an edited collection on Sarah Baartman. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Medgar Evers College CUNY in Brooklyn, New York, where she resides with her husband and two children. Benjamin Kumai Gugong is a lecturer in the Department of Accounting, Kaduna State University, Kaduna, Nigeria. He is a Ph. D. student of Accounting and Finance in the Department of Economics and Management Sciences, Nigerian Defense Academic (NDA), Kaduna, Nigeria. His area of interest borders on Rural Development, Poverty Alleviation and Participatory Budgeting in the public sector. He is involved in youth activities. He is currently the Chairman, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Kaduna State University Chapter, and the Chairman, National Youth Council of Nigeria, Kaura Chapter, Kaduna State. He is happily married to Angela and blessed with two kids, Bobai & Jenchat.
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