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Fellow bios Richard Amarachukwu C.E. Achara, Ph.D. R.A.C.E. Achara is a professor of Constitutional Law at Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Nigeria, where he specializes in constitutional law and evidence. He has also served as Head of the Department of Public Law, as a member of the University Senate, as Dean of Law and as millennial Chairman of the Nigeria Bar Association, Enugu Branch. In 2006 he expanded his schedule for courtroom advocacy. From 1994 to 1995, Achara lectured on Criminal Law at the Abia State University, Uturu. He then went on to lecture on Constitutional Law at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, until 2005. Achara has been a reviewer for several international academic journals, such as the African Studies Review and the Nigerian Juridical Review. In 2005 he became an editor of the Nigerian Law Journal, and from 2005-2006 he was Editor-in-Chief of the ESUT Law Journal. In 2006 he served as an editor for the Abakaliki Bar Journal, and in the same period he was the country correspondent for Nigeria in “Top Court Talk” at www.thecourt.ca, an Osgoode Hall Law School website for Supreme Courts of the world. In 2007 he became Regional Editor (West Africa) for the Journal of African Law of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Hamadou Adama, Ph.D. Hamadou Adama is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Université de Ngaoundéré, Cameroon, and an internationally renowned scholar in the discourse on Islam and Muslim politics in Africa. His research is focused on the Islamic Education and brotherhoods of northern Cameroon. From 1998 to 2006, Adama was Lecturer and Secretary General at the Université de Ngaoundéré, following an Assistant Professorship in the History department at the Université de Douala beginning in 1995. Prior to this, he taught in the department of History at the Université de Yaoundé I. Adama is the author and coauthor of numerous articles and books, including Un manuscript arabe sur l’histoire du royaume peul de Kontcha dans le Nord-Cameroun (2001), Cameroun 2001(2002), and L’islam au Cameroun: entre tradition et modernité (2004). Other publications have focused on a range of topics, including education, ethnicity, politics, and Arabic Manuscripts. In 2006 Adama received the Prix d’Excellence Scientifique de l’Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF), and a Fulbright fellowship on Religious Pluralism to study at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In addition, he has contributed to, as well as assisted in, the editing and publishing of the Revue Ngaoundéré-Anthropos (Volumes 4-7), and Annales de la FALSH (Volume 3). Adama completed a Ph.D. in History at the Université de Bordeaux III, France (1993). In 2004, he earned his French Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) from the Department of History at the Université de Provence, France. Olufunke Asake Adeboye, Ph.D. Olufunke Asake Adeboye is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. Her research interests within African History include social and urban history, Pentecostal history in West Africa, African historiography, 19th and 20th Century Yoruba State and Society, and Nigerian History. Adeboye has had papers accepted for publication in journals and edited volumes, including the Lagos Historical Review (2007) and Traditional and Modern Health Systems in Nigeria (Falola and Heaton editors, 2005). In 2007 Adeboye attended the Inaugural Conference of the International Research Group on Governing Cities in Africa: Laws, Local Institutions and Urban Identities since 1945, held at the Institute of Political Science of Bordeaux, France. Her project focused on “The Public Role of Christian Organizations in Ibadan 1945-2000.” Adeboye is also a member of the Association of African Historians and The Historical Society of Nigeria. Adeboye received her B.A. with Single Honors, Second Class Upper from the University of Ibadan, and an M.A. in History (1991). She earned a Ph.D. in History (1997) from the same department, with the thesis: “The Ibadan Elite, 1893-1966.” Abdussamad H. Ahmad, Ph.D. Abdussamad H. Ahmad is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. His research interests include the economic and social history of Gojjam, Ethiopia, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with a particular emphasis on the development of markets, towns and the slave trade. At Addis Ababa University, Ahmad offers courses on Ethiopian history and African history, ranging from precolonial to modern periods. Ahmad has also taught courses on Early and Medieval Islam, Egypt, and the Sudan. Ahmad has earned numerous grants for research abroad, including two fellowships at Kyoto University, Japan (1998 and 2004), where he led a study entitled “Eco-historical study on the inter-ethnic group relationships in northeastern Africa.” He has also acted as Chairman and Treasurer of the National Committee for the South Omo Research Project. Ahmad completed his Ph.D. in History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1986). Antoinette Theresa Tidjani Alou, Ph.D. Antoinette Theresa Alou is a Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Literary Criticism and Gender Studies in the Department of Modern Literature, at the Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey in Niger. She is also an Independent Translator in Social Sciences (French/English; English/French), and Oral Literature (Hausa to French/English). Antoinette has taught courses on topics such as Literature of the French Enlightenment, Methodology and Comparative Literatures, Gender, and Symbolism in Nigerian Literature. She has served as the Co-Director of the Annals of the Abdou Moumouni University of Niamey since 2000, and was a member of the National Research Team of the international research program “Women Writing Africa” from 1997 to 2004. She also served as Vice President of the International Society for the Oral Literatures of Africa (ISOLA) (2006), and was Chair of the Conference Committee of the 7th ISOLA Congress in Lecce, Italy. Antoinette earned a B.A. with Honors from the University of the West Indies in Kingston Jamaica and an M.A. in General and Comparative Literature with Honors from the Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux III, France (1986). It was there that she also earned her Ph.D. in French and Comparative Literature (1991) with her thesis “Le Premier théatre claudelien. Naissance du drame et drame de la naissance.” Patricia Anafi Patricia Anafi is a doctoral student in Public Health, with a Community Health Education concentration at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Between 2005-2006 she worked as lecturer with the Department of Geography and Tourism at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. She has been involved in research studies on issues surrounding HIV/AIDS, malaria, health workers’ satisfaction, and maternal health-seeking behavior at the local level in Ghana. She is coauthor of an article entitled “Health workers’ (internal customer) Satisfaction and Motivation in the Public Sector in Ghana” in the International Journal of Health Planning and Management (2004). From 2002 to 2004 she was a member of the District Health Management Team, and from 2001 to 2004 she was Assistant Health Researcher at the Dangme West Health Research Center. Prior to that she volunteered for ILO/IPEC in Accra. Anafi holds an M.A. in Philosophy and Social Change from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (2000), and an Education certificate (1996) and a B.A. (Honors) in Geography from the University of Cape Coast. Alfred Babo, Ph.D. Alfred Babo is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the Université de Bouaké, Abidjan, Côte d’ Ivoire. His research interests and publications focus on agriculture, rural development, social and economic policy, and—more recently—socio-political crisis in Côte d’Ivoire. Babo has acted as an independent consultant and as a developer and trainer on numerous projects investigating agriculture and development, especially the issue of child labor in the cocoa farms in Côte d’Ivoire. He is a member of the CODESRIA National Working Group on “Socio-Political Crisis, Identity Reconstruction and Processes of Construction of the Idea of a Nation-State in Ivory-Coast.” Most recently, for a project on child labour carried out in conjunction with the government and the International Cocoa Initiative, he served as a developer and trainer and wrote the report,“Struggle against the Worst Forms of Child Labour in the Cocoa Farms in Cote d’Ivoire” (2007). Babo earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from Université de Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire (2002) in a joint program with the Centre International de Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD). Bongi Bangeni, Ph.D. Bio statement not yet available Adeyinka Banwo, Ph.D. Adeyinka Banwo is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and International Studies at the University of Ado-Ekiti. In 2007/2008, Banwo served as a visiting professor at Westfield State College in Westfield, Massachusetts. Banwo’s research and teaching interests include the Political Economy of pre-colonial, colonial and post colonial Africa, history of West Africa, international economic relations, human rights and democracy. From 1992 until 2005, he taught and researched at the University of Ilorin, and from 2006-2007 he was a Senior Lecturer and coordinator of postgraduate studies in the Department of International Studies at the University of Ado-Ekiti. Banwo has given guest lectures in the History departments of several colleges in the U.S., including Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts (2006), and in the Department of African and African American Studies, Lehman College, The Bronx, New York (2007). In 2007, Banwo completed a book chapter entitled “The Implications of April 2007 Elections in Nigeria on the Democratic Movement in Africa,” for a forthcoming volume edited by O. Okafor, Nigeria’s New Democracy on Trial. Also in 2007, he submitted to the African Studies Review a manuscript based on the research he did during his Five College residency; the paper is entitled “Bending the Rule?: Agricultural Production in Ilorin Emirate of Colonial Northern Nigeria.” Banwo completed a Ph.D. in African History (1999) at the University of Ilorin; his thesis was titled “The Colonial State and Ilorin Emirate Economy: 1900-1960.” He also holds an M.A. in African History from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, and received his B.A. (Honors) in History at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. Ndiouga Benga, Ph.D. Ndiouga Benga is Senior Lecturer in the History Department at the Université Cheikh Anta Diop, in Dakar, Sénégal. Benga's research and publications have focused largely on issues of citizenship, social contract, nation-state, and dissidences; the relationship between central and local powers; individualization processes in African cities; and urban culture (including music, theatre and fashion). Benga has taught courses on urban history (19th-21st centuries), local elites and modernization in West Africa, and power and African societies (19-20th centuries). Since his ASP residency, Benga has coordinated a research program in collaboration with the Anthropology Department at the University of Montréal, entitled "When States Use Culture: Cultural Policies in Senegal and Zaïre, 1960-1990s." Benga is also an animator for the Institut Supérieur des Arts et de la Création (Visual Arts, Museum, Patrimoine) based at Université Cheikh Anta Diop, and in 1998 he served as associate researcher at ORSTOM-IRD (French Institute for Research and Development). In addition, Benga has editorial activities with international journals like Africa (London), Africa Development (Dakar), African Studies Review (USA), Canadian Journal of African Studies (Laval, Quebec), and Sociétés Africaines et Diaspora (Paris). He holds an M.A.in history from Université Cheikh Anta Diop (1991) and a Ph.D. (1997) from the Université Paris 7 - Denis Diderot, Laboratoire Sociétés en Développement dans l'Espace et dans le Temps (SEDET-CNRS), on the topic "Central Power and Local Power. Testing Urban Management, Rufisque, Sénégal, 1924-1964." Sakhela Maxwell Buhlungu, Ph.D. Sakhela Maxwell Buhlungu is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was a lecturer with the department beginning in 1992; throughout this period he has also worked closely with a number of South African trade unions as a researcher, secretary and education officer. His current teaching and research fall within the subdiscipline of Industrial Sociology, and include the politics of trade union organization, democratic transitions, social movements and collective action in South Africa. He has published extensively in these areas. In addition to teaching, Buhlungu is a research associate at the Sociology of Work Unit (SWOP) at the University of Witwatersrand, where he served as Deputy Director from 2002 to 2006. Over the last five years, he has reviewed manuscripts for the University of South Africa Press, as well as journals including Labor History, South African Review of Sociology, and the Journal of Contemporary African Studies. He is also the recipient of a National Science Foundation grant (2005) and a Ford Ph.D. Fellowship grant (2005), to support his work with SWOP. In 2008, Buhlungu is working on a book manuscript titled Fruits of Their Labor: Unions and the democratic transformation in South Africa 1973-2000. Buhlungu received his Ph.D. from the University of Witwatersrand (2002) with his thesis: “Democracy and Modernisation in the Making of the South African Trade Union Movement: the Dilemma of Leadership, 1973 – 2000”. Chimaroke Izugbara, Ph.D. Chima Izugbara is Associate Research Scientist at the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) in Nairobi, Kenya. He began at the Center as a sabbatical fellow in 2006, and was appointed to his current position in 2007. Chima’s current research interests are in the anthropology of reproductive health, health-seeking practices, gender, sexuality, and sexual behaviors. He is involved in the implementation of three ongoing research projects: Change and continuity in reproductive norms and behavior in Northern Nigeria (funded by the Packard Foundation); the family planning needs of HIV discordant couples in Kenya (funded by WHO); and slum masculinities in sub-Saharan Africa (funding forthcoming). Chima is a prolific scholar and has authored more than 50 papers, mainly in international journals and edited volumes. He also reviewed manuscripts for over 21 international scholarly journals, including Sex Education, African Studies Review, International Migration Review, Social Science and Medicine, Sociology of Health and Illness, and Sexuality, Gender and Culture. Rochelle Lynne Kapp, Ph.D. Rochelle Lynne Kapp is an Associate Professor of Language Development in the Academic Development Program at the University of Cape Town (UCT). In 1994, she joined the Language Development Group in the Centre for Higher Education Development, UCT. She completed a term as coordinator of the group whose mission is to promote and facilitate access to higher education, within an ethos of social justice and national redress. Kapp’s work broadly entails providing appropriate academic literacy courses and language support for students from disadvantaged backgrounds, alongside transforming curricula, developing policy to promote multilingualism, and engaging in schools’ development work. Since 1997, there has been an active collaboration between the English Department at UMass and the Language Development Group. She holds a Ph.D. in Education and an M.A. (cum laude) in English from the University of Cape Town. Her doctoral thesis was titled “The Politics of English: a study of classroom discourses in a township school,” and she has published in the fields of English as a second language, multilingualism and academic literacy. Anne Mumbi Karanja, Ph.D. Anne Mumbi Karanja is a Lecturer in the Departments of Social Sciences and Development Studies at Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya. She has conducted research within development studies on topics such as male alcoholism in urban settings, church and Nairobi youth, and the role of private-public partnerships in enhancing local government service delivery (Municipal Development Partnership for Eastern and Southern Africa, Harare, 2002-2004). Karanja has served as an External Examiner for the Government Training Institute, Embu, for the Social Diploma and Certificate, and she facilitated a workshop on Gender Development and sustainable Solid Waste Management with ITDG (Intermediate Technology Development Group). Karanja earned a B.A. in Social Work and an M.A. in Sociology at the University of Nairobi (1993). She completed her Ph.D. at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands, with the thesis: “Solid Waste Management and Recycling in Nairobi: actors, institutional arrangements and contributions to sustainable development” (2005). Mothokoa Phumzile Mamashela, Ph.D. Mothokoa Phumzile Mamashela teaches in the School of Law at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Mamashela’s research interests and publications span development legislation, family law, issues of inheritance and maintenance, marriage and traditional courts. She has published in scholarly journals including Orbiter (2006) and the South African Journal on Human Rights (2004). Mamashela also does research for the Centre for Criminal Justice, an NGO affiliated with the School of Law at the University of Natal, on the problems women encounter when registering their customary marriages. Mamashela completed her L.L.B. at the University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland, and her L.L.M. at Sheffield University in England. She earned her doctorate at Leiden University in Holland. Pamela Kasabiiti Mbabazi, Ph.D. Pamela Mbabazi is Senior Lecturer and Dean of Faculty in the department of Development Studies at Mbarara University of Science and Technology. Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of development planning, global governance, state building and peace studies. Mbabazi has written and won numerous grants for research, including an Institutional grant for the Faculty of Development Studies from NUFFIC, and a Fulbright Scholarship to support her residency at Johns Hopkins University in the U.S. (2006). In addition, she was bestowed with the Woman of the Year Award from the American Biographical Institute in 2005. Mbabazi published her doctorate research on the milk industry in Ankole, South Western Uganda as the book Supply Chain & Liberalisation of the Milk Industry in Uganda (2005). Prior to the completion of her Ph.D. at Mbabara University (2004), Mbabazi earned a B.A. in Social Sciences at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, and an M.A. in Development Studies at the University of Leeds, U.K. (1992). She also completed a post-graduate diploma in Regional Planning & Management at the University of Dortmund, Germany (1993), and an M.S. in Development Planning and Management from the University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana (1994). Fraternel Divin Amuri Misako Fraternel Divin Amuri Misako is a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Political Science and Administration at the University of Kisangani, in Orientale Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). His research interests include urban and rural social movements and political participation in Sub-Saharan Africa; religion and politics; political violence and conflict resolution; democratization in Africa; human rights; gender and politics; youth, militias and leadership in wartime; and music and politics in times of crisis. In addition to comparative politics and constitutional law he teaches courses on political sociology, political anthropology, and social science research methods. His thesis for the doctorat du troisième cycle (DES) focuses on the role of the rural masses in the Maï-Maï militias of eastern DRC. This is part of his larger research project on symbolism and violence legitimization among the Maï-Maï, and a new reading of Congolese nationalism, an area on which he has published several articles. In 2006 he served as a consultant for a UNDP program on youth and armed conflicts in Africa, and he was a resource person for the UN Economic Commission for Africa’s Forum on Development in Africa in Addis Ababa. Ibrahim Mouiche, Ph.D. Ibrahim Mouiche is a Political Scientist specializing in political sociology and political anthropology. He earned his doctoral degrees at Yaoundé University (1994) and Leiden University (2005) in The Netherlands, and he is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at University of Yaoundé II, Cameroon. His research interests focus on ethnicity; traditional chiefs and democratization; gender; and Islam and reformism in Cameroon—and he has authored several articles on these topics. Mouiche received several Research Fellowships from CODESRIA, most recently an Advanced Research Fellowship in 2007. He also served as a resource person for their Gender Institute in 2005 and for their Governance Institute in 2006. Sethunya Mphinyane, Ph.D. Sethunya Tshepho Mphinyane is a lecturer in Sociology within the Faculty of Social Sciences, at the University of Botswana. Mphinyane joined the Department of Sociology in 1999 as a staff development fellow soon after completion of her BA. Her research interests include local communities and HIV/AIDS in Botswana, and questions of indigeneity in Africa in relation to land rights battles of Botswana's contested indigenous minorities of the Kalahari. Mphinyane taught at the University of Botswana from 1999 to 2001, offering undergraduate courses in Social Anthropology and Sociology. In September 2002 she began doctoral work in the Centre for Culture, Communication and Media Studies, focusing on the politics of government ownership of television and cultural production in globalizing and post-colonial contexts in Africa, specifically in Botswana. Mphinyane co-founded two associations for the disadvantaged in Botswana: Friends of Orphans, and Alto, a group that has hosted a Breast Cancer Awareness Meeting and an event on infertility and social pressure in Botswana. She completed a B.A. in Political Science and Sociology at the University of Botswana; an M.A. in Anthropology of Development and Social Transformation at the University of Sussex, UK; and a Ph.D. in Culture, Communication and Media Studies in April of 2007, at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa. Nakanyike Musisi, Ph.D. Nakanyike Musisi is an Associate Professor at Makerere University and the University of Toronto, where she is tenured. She is also the Executive Director of Makerere Institute of Social Research at Makerere University, and the Executive Secretary of the Innovations at Makerere Committee. Over the past eight years she has overseen a successful implementation of over one hundred research projects through a multi-million dollar Innovations at Makerere Capacity Building Research Program (funded by the Rockefeller Foundation of New York and the World Bank, Learning and Innovations Loan [LIL]) and more than thirty five research projects at the Institute. She has received a number of Excellence Awards, published widely, and served on a number of Task Forces. In 2005/06, she won the internationally renowned and competitive New Century Fulbright Fellowship to investigate the “Private Public Mix in the Provision of Higher Education in Uganda.” Musisi is a founding member of the Makerere University Research Journal (MURJ), which commenced in 2005. In addition to serving on the MURJ editorial board and Innovations at Makerere Committee Bulletin (2004 to present), Musisi has provided her services on a number of international editorial boards, including: Women’s History Journal, London, England (1993- 2006); Canadian Woman's Studies Journal, Toronto (1993-1999); Thamyris --Mythmaking from Past to Present, Najade Press B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1994-1999); Triologue Association of Women in Development, Washington, U.S.A (1996-1997). She is also an active reviewer for the Fountain Publishers in Uganda (2005 to present) and Bank of Uganda Research Division (2000 to present). Musisi holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, Canada; an MA and M. Phil. from the University of Birmingham, U.K.; and a B.A. (Honors) from Makerere University, Uganda. Francis Musoni Francis Musoni is pursuing a Ph.D. in African History at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. His research focuses on forced migration in colonial Zimbabwe. Before joining Emory University in August 2006, Francis was a Lecturer in the Curriculum Arts and Education Department of the University of Zimbabwe. He is the recipient of numerous grants and scholarships, including Emory University’s Institute for Comparative International Studies Graduate Student Fellowship (2007-2008), Emory University’s History Department pre-prospectus Research and Language Training Grant (2007), and Emory University’s Institute of African Studies Research Grant (2007). Musoni earned both his B.A. and M.A. in African History from the University of Zimbabwe (1999, 2001), and has also completed the Graduate Certificate in Education (2002). Kennedy K. Mutundu, Ph.D. Bio statement not yet available Adam Beni Swebe Mwakalobo Adam Beni Swebe Mwakalobo is a Lecturer in the Development Studies Institute at Sokoine University of Agriculture. His focus is Development Studies, specifically issues of food security, rural livelihoods, HIV/AIDS and poverty alleviation, and the analysis of development policy. He is currently completing his Ph.D. in Economics. In 2007, his article “Implications of HIV/AIDS for Rural Livelihoods in Tanzania: An Illustrative Example of Rungwe District” was published in the African Studies Review. In addition, Mwakalobo has won several competitive research grants, including a Rockefeller Foundation Research Grant (2004-2007) and a grant for Research on Poverty Alleviation (2004-2005 and 2002-2003). From 1998-1999, he served as a Research Officer for Tanzania’s National Social Security Fund. Mwakalobo returned to UMass Amherst in 2004 on a Fulbright Junior Staff Development Fellowship, and in 2006 he earned his M.A. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts. Previously, Mwakalobo completed a B.S. in Agriculture, and an M.S. in Agricultural Economics (1998) at Sokoine University of Agriculture in Tanzania. Mildred Adhiambo Jalang’o Ndeda, Ph.D. Mildred Ndeda is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at Kenyatta University in Kenya. Her research and teaching spans themes in African history, gender, history of religions in Africa, comparative Latin American history, research methods and women’s movements. She served as Coordinator for the CODESRIA Workshop on Writing for Scholarly Publishing (2006), and was awarded a research grant by the National Security Intelligence Services for the study “Secret Servants: A History of Intelligence and Espionage in Kenya 1850-2004” (2006). Ndeda earned a B.A. (honors) from Kenyatta University College and an M.A. in Religious Studies from the University of Nairobi (1982). She was awarded a research grant from the Dean’s Committee to complete her doctoral project, entitled “The Impact of Male Labour Migration on Rural Women: A Case Study of Siaya District, 1895-1963,” and completed her Ph.D. in History at Kenyatta University in 1993. Elie Ngongang, Ph.D. Elie Ngongang is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Yaoundé II, Cameroon, where he teaches Financial Mathematics and Statistics and conducts research in applied macroeconomics. In the spring of 2008 he was a Fulbright Scholar at Fayetteville State University, North Carolina, where he lectured on microfinance and development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Ngongang’s main research interest in macroeconomics is on the interactions among financial markets, the credit system, social relations, economics links, psychologies, cultural relations and investments. Some recent publication projects include a study of electoral democracy and poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, and research on entrepreneurship and French direct investments in Cameroon. In 1994, after completing a third cycle doctoral degree, Ngongang assumed the position of Assistant Professor of Economics at Yaoundé University, and in 2003 he became a Senior Lecturer, after attending a workshop on Econometrics Techniques at the African Economic Research Consortium in Nairobi in 2001. In 2007 Ngongang had several papers accepted for publication in scholarly journals. Ngongang used his Five Colleges residency in 2004 to complete his doctoral research, and in 2006 he was awarded a Ph.D. in Economics with specialization in the Analysis of Economic Policy. He earned both a B.A. and an M.A. in Economics from the University of Yaoundé, (1984-5). Christine Noe Christine Noe is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences at the University of Cape Town, and her research focuses on Transfrontier Conservation areas and their impacts on states and local communities in South-East Africa. Noe is an Assistant Lecturer at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where she has taught Human Geography, Biogeography and advanced social science research methods since 2003. Beginning in the fall of 2006, Noe has conducted consultancy research as a National Fieldwork Research Coordinator for SIDA, evaluating the Health, Sanitation and Water Programme in Tanzania. In 2005, she published a collaborative research project entitled "Resolving Farmer-Pastoral and Wildlife conflicts in the Kitendeni Wildlife Corridor in Tanzania," for the Eastern and Southern Africa Partnership Program (ESAPP). Beginning in 2000, Noe worked for four years as an Environmental Officer for Lawyer's Environmental Action Team (LEAT). Susan Ntete Susan Ntete is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of the Western Cape, where she is writing a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) using life history data she collected in 2005. In 2008 she was a visiting scholar at the University of Stockholm in Sweden, where she worked towards the finalization of her doctoral thesis. In 2007, Ntete entered her twentieth year of teaching, the last seven of which she has spent teaching at the university level. Ntete teaches in the English Department at the University of Western Cape, and in 2007 she taught both English Intensive 105 and English for Educational Development to Social Work Students in the Community Health Sciences Department. Over the course of her teaching career, Ntete has collaborated with colleagues in the History Dept at UWC, in the implementation of the Content-Based approach (CBI) to language teaching and learning. In 2005 she took a leave of absence to begin collecting data for her doctoral research. Ntete was the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship in 2001 to attend the SETI program in Ohio, U.S. for South African teachers of ESL. In 2007 she presented a paper entitled “Perceived Selves: Using life histories to identify some of the conditions affecting learning in under-resourced schools,” at the WCCES XIII Conference (“Living Together: Education and Intercultural Dialogue”) in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Ntete earned a B.A. in English and Communication from the University of South Africa in Pretoria (1994), a B.A. in Education from the University of Cape Town (1994), and an M.A. in Education from Rhodes University, Grahamstown, specializing in English as a Second Language (1998). Daniel Obuobi, Ph.D. Daniel Obuobi is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology at the University of Cape Coast. He is also the Coordinator of the African Virtual University and a Member of the Ghana National Committee for Internet Connectivity. He is a Fellow of the Ghana Institute of Information Technology and a member of ISOC International, the Internet Society and the Ghana Science and Technology Association. In 2005 Obuobi was a Fulbright Scholar hosted by the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Following his visit, Obuobi, in collaboration with UMass colleague Rick Adrion, organized a one-week School on Distributed and Embedded Systems and Networks at Cape Coast University for UMass computer science faculty. The school was designed to generate interest among Ghanaian students in careers as faculty, to introduce faculty from Ghana and neighboring countries to current UMass Amherst research activities, and to provide a basis for long-term teaching and research relationships. Obuobi received his undergraduate degrees from the University of Cape Coast and graduate degrees from DeMontfort University in the U.K. Afis Ayinde Oladosu, Ph.D. Afis Ayinde Oladosu is a lecturer in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Ibadan where he teaches Modern Arabic literature and culture. He is a member of the Association of Professional English-Arabic Translators in Arab Universities in Jordan (APETAU). In 2006 Oladosu initiated an international conference on Islam, Terrorism and Africa's Development. The proceedings of the conference, which he edited, will be published as: Islam in Contemporary Africa: On Violence, Terrorism and Development. In 2006 Oladosu was also a Fulbright Visiting Specialist at Southern Maine Community College for several weeks, through the Direct Access to the Muslim World program. Some of his papers already in print include the following: "From the Periphery: Periscoping the Romantic Trend in Modern Sudanese Fiction," in Islamic Culture; "Wad-Nil: Mapping the 20th Century Egypto-Sudanese History through the Sudanese Fiction," in Pakistan Historical Society; and "Authority Versus Sexuality: Dialectics in Woman’s Image in Modern Sudanese Narrative Discourse" and "Children and the Unhomely in Modern Sudanese Novel," both in Hawwa. He also has several articles forthcoming in scholarly journals and in the Encyclopedia of African Thought. Oladosu received his M.A. in Arabic and Islamic Studies (1997) and his doctorate in North African Literature and Culture from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria (2001). Sanya (Olusanya Olufemi) Osha, Ph.D. Bio statement not yet available Imani Sanga, Ph.D. Imani Sanga is a lecturer in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at the University of Dar es Salaam, where he teaches courses on Ethnomusicology, the music of Tanzania, fundamentals of music, composition and choral techniques. He also conducts the Dar es Salaam University Choir, which performs mainly choral works from different African countries. Presently, he is working on a book manuscript based on his Ph.D dissertation, titled "Muziki wa Injili: The temporal and spatial aesthetics of popular church music in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (1980s-2005)". Sanga recorded and released several albums of his own, and composed and played the music for an award winning feature film, Duara, produced by his department in collaboration with the University of West Virginia. In addition, his songbook (a collection of his arrangement of selected songs from various music cultures in Tanzania) was published in 1996. His article publications include "Composition Processes in Popular Church Music in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania" in Ethnomusicology Forum; "Kumpolo: Aesthetic Appreciation and Cultural Appropriation of Bird Sounds in Tanzania," in Folklor; and "Gender in Church Music: Dynamics of Gendered Space in Muziki wa Injili in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania," in Journal of Popular Music Studies. He received his Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology and Popular Music (2006) from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Peter Simatei Tirop, Ph.D. Peter Simatei Tirop teaches African literature and literary theory in the Department of Literature, Theatre and Film Studies at Moi University in Kenya. His research interests include the dialogue between Kenyan Fiction and History, and Postcolonialism and African literature, and he is currently researching the writings of the East African Asian Diaspora. Simatei has published on the works of Achebe, Ngugi, Vassanji, Al Amin Mazrui, Peter Nazareth, Oludhe-Macgoye and others. His revised doctoral dissertation was published by Bayreuth African Studies in 2001, entitled The Novel and the Politics of Nation-Building in East Africa. He has also published several chapters in books and articles in scholarly journals, including Research in African Literatures (2005) and English Studies in Africa (2000). He attended Universities in Kenya (Nairobi and Moi), received his doctorate at the University of Bayreuth, Germany (2000), and has been a German Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Munich. Lynda Spencer Lynda Spencer is a Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. For five years beginning in 2002, she served as Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of South Africa. Her research interests include Post Colonial theories, Women’s studies in Africa, Popular Culture in Africa, African Diaspora and African Literature. Her doctoral work aims to carry out a comparative study of current women’s writing from Uganda and South Africa. Spencer is an Editorial Assistant for the English Academy of Southern Africa, and a member of the Executive Committee for the African and Black Diaspora. In 2005 her coauthored article entitled “Language Learning Interventions” was published in the Journal for Language Teaching (Vol 39:1, June 2005). Also in 2005, she helped organize the Wole Soyinka Third Annual Conference, “Wole Soyinka Across Boundaries” in Pretoria. Spencer earned a B.A. in English and Legal Theory from the University of Transkei, Mthatha, and an Honors B.A. in English from the University of Pretoria; a Certificate in Public Relations from Damelin College in Pretoria (1997); and an M.A. in African Literature from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (2001). Lucien Fidèle Toulou, Ph.D. Lucien F. Toulou is a Researcher for the Electoral Institute of Southern Africa (EISA) in Johannesburg, South Africa. Prior to joining EISA, he worked as Electoral Advisor for the United Nations Operation for a year in Côte d’Ivoire. Toulou also lectured at the Catholic University of Central Africa, Yaoundé, Cameroon for six years, beginning in 2000. He has taught courses such as Introduction to Political Science; Conflict Transformation; State and Corruption in Africa; and Political Transition and Consolidation. He has authored many articles on political transition and social issues in Cameroon. As Researcher with EISA, Toulou’s main areas of interest are elections, political institutions and governance. He coordinates country, regional and continental research programs and technical assistance projects; conducts electoral quality workshops and provides training for Elections Management Bodies Officials; and monitors elections in Southern Africa and throughout the continent. In 2007 he was part of an EISA research team providing technical support to the Pan African Parliament Observer Mission. Toulou obtained a B.A. in Law from the Yaoundé II University; an M.A. in Social Sciences from the Catholic University of Central Africa in Yaoundé (1998); an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Bordeaux IV, France; and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the same institution (2005), based on a comparative analysis of multipartism in Cameroon and Kenya. Nada Hussein Wanni Bio statement not yet available Fredrick O. Wanyama, Ph.D. Fredrick O. Wanyama is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Development and Strategic Studies at Maseno University, Kenya. He specializes in the interface between local organizations and politics in African development, and his articles have appeared in refereed journals such as Africa Development; East African Journal of Democracy and Human Rights; and Regional Development Studies. He has also contributed many chapters to scholarly books as well as entries in The Encyclopedia of the Developing World (Routledge, 2006). He is a contributor and co-editor of Cooperating Out of Poverty: the Renaissance of the African Cooperative Movement (The World Bank Institute & ILO, 2007). In 2006, he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Higher Institute for Labor Studies, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. Wanyama has taught Political Science and Development Studies courses at the Undergraduate and Graduate levels. He is a member of the Board of the School of Graduate Studies at Maseno University, and has served as Acting Director for the School of Development and Strategic Studies. He also serves on the Editorial Board of Maseno University Journal and is a Trustee to Maseno University’s Retirement Benefits Scheme. He is an External Examiner in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Dar es Salaam, in the Department of Political Science at Dar es Salaam University College of Education since 2006, and in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Nairobi in the 2005/2006 academic year. Wanyama earned his doctorate in Political Science from Maseno University (2004), and both a B.A. and M.A. in Government (1990, 1994) from the University of Nairobi, Kenya. James Omboga Zaja, Ph.D. James Omboga Zaja is a Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and Languages at the University of Nairobi, where he offers courses on Kiswahili translation, communication, oral literature, history, and research methods. Previously, Zaja lectured in the Department of Kiswahili in the College of Education and External Studies, from 1990-2005, and at Kenyatta University from 1987-1990. In addition to teaching, Zaja has published on Kiswahili literary translation theory and methods, including Kamusi ya Isimu na Fasihi, a dictionary of Kiswahili linguistics and literature, a collaborative work with Dr. John Habwe. Zaja earned a B.A. in Kiswahili, Literature and Government (Political Science); an M.A. in Linguistics and Swahili Studies from the University of Nairobi (1986); and a doctorate in Kiswahili from Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya (2006). | |