NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

WEST AFRICA REVIEW

ISSN: 1525-4488

Issue 10 (2007)

Francis Akindès est professeur de sociologie économique et chef du départment d’anthropologie et de Sociologie à l'Université de Bouaké (Côte d'Ivoire). Il est ègalement chercheur associé à l'IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement — France). Francis Akindès est l'auteur de plusieurs livres et autres publications aussi bien dans le champ de la sociologie des mutations politiques et économiques que de l'analyse des politiques publiques de développement.

Simon Adetona is an Associate Professor of Instructional Technology in the Teacher Education Department at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, Wisconsin. With an educational background in Political Science, African Literature and International Relations, his academic research focuses on the cultural studies of technology and education, and popular music. He has published educational books as well as numerous articles on computers in education and society, on politics, popular music and culture.

Douglas J. Falen is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the department of Sociology and Anthropology at Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia. He has been conducting research about Benin and visiting the country since 1996. His doctoral dissertation (Paths of Power: Control, Negotiation and Gender among the Fon of Benin, University of Pennsylvania, 2003), focused on gender dynamics, uncovering informal avenues of power available to Fon women in their competition with men for money, status, and sexual and reproductive control. More recently, he has been exploring the effects of Christianity on marriage relationships and polygyny in Benin. His work on Christianity and marriage, as well the research for this submission are based on his recent fieldwork in Summer 2006. The present work grows out of his interest in the tensions between Christianity and traditional religious practices, including witchcraft.

Mathurin C. Houngnikpo is the Academic Chair of Security Studies at the Africa Center of Strategic Studies (ACSS), Washington, DC. Prior to joining ACSS, he taught in the Program of International Studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Paris VIII, Saint-Denis, France and a Ph.D. in International Studies from the University of Denver (United States). Dr. Houngnikpo is the author of Africa’s Elusive Quest for Development (2006); Economic Integration and Development in Africa (co-edited with H. Kyambalesa, 2006); Not Yet Democracy: West Africa’s Slow Farewell to Authoritarianism (co-edited with B. N’Diaye and A. Saine) 2005); L’Illusion Démocratique en Afrique (2004); Des Mots pour les Maux de l’Afrique (2004); Determinants of Democratization in Africa (2001), and other book chapters and articles.

Babacar M'Bow is the international program and exhibit coordinator for the Broward County Commission Libraries Division at Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He is a specialist on Wolof history, culture and heritage. He has curated numerous exhibitions and is the editor of Benin, A Kingdom in Bronze.

Philip A. Ojo est Maître-Assistant à l’Université Agnes Scott, Decatur, Georgia, U.S.A. où il enseigne au Département de Langues et Litératures Modernes et Etrangères. Il est spécialiste en litératures d’Afrique et des Caraïbes, et en culture populaire africaine. Ses travaux de recherche ont été publiés dans le Journal of Caribbean Literature, et dans The Encyclopaedia of Africa and the Americas. Philip Ojo maintient le site Pages Francophones @ ASC, un projet dont l’objectif est de promouvoir les études francophones.

Philip A. Ojo is an assistant professor at Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA. His teaching and research interests include Francophone African and Caribbean literatures, and African popular culture. He has published in the Journal of Caribbean Literature, and contributed to The Encyclopaedia of Africa and the Americas. Ojo also maintains Pages Francophones @ ASC, an online project for the promotion of Francophone studies.

Martinez Olivier est doctorant en géographie et chercheur, Laboratoire Population Environnement et Développement (LPED), UMR 151 IRD / Université de Provence, Equipe DEVLOC (Développement local et ville durable), Marseille St Charles, France. Il prépare actuellement une thèse en géographie sur le thème: «Mondialisation, échanges marchands et connexions territoriales entre Afrique Noire et Asie : Cotonou, Brazzaville, Dubaï, Canton.» Ses précédents travaux (en Master 1 et Master 2) ont concerné différentes thématiques relatives à la région urbaine de Porto-Novo, capitale du Bénin. Ils ont respectivement porté sur «L’espace financier de Porto-Novo: évolutions, mutations et particularités des pratiques financières dans une région urbaine du Sud de l’Ouémé (Bénin)» et sur «Mondialisation et relations ethno-spatiales: exemple Yoruba dans la région urbaine de Porto-Novo (Bénin)». Ses recherches sont conduites sous la direction d’Elisabeth Dorier-Apprill (LPED), professeur de géographie à l’Université de Provence Aix-Marseille I. Il collabore également avec différentes équipes de recherche béninoises (LARES, Laboratoire d’Analyse Régionale et d’Expertise Sociale; CBRST, Centre Béninois de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique) et congolaises (URAS, Unité de Recherche en Analyse Sociétale; ENAM, Ecole Nationale d’Administration et de Magistrature). Enfin il est actuellement moniteur à l’Université de Provence où il dispense des cours et TD relatifs aux espaces urbains du Sud et à l’Afrique dans la mondialisation.

Jeanne Maddox Toungara is an associate professor of history at Howard University, Washington DC. Her research interests include West African intellectual history, indigenous thought, pre-colonial state formation, political culture and democratization within francophone African nations, with particular emphasis on Côte d’Ivoire. She has carried out extensive archival research in France, Senegal, Mali and Côte d’Ivoire, and has collected hundreds of hours of oral testimonies in Côte d’Ivoire. She is the recipient of study and research awards from the Ford Foundation Doctoral Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright-Hayes Program, Ministry of National Education of Côte d’Ivoire, Carter G. Woodson Institute, University of Virginia, the West African Research Association, and Howard University. Professor Toungara is the author of over a dozen articles on the history of women, family, education, economy and politics of various West African communities. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Modern African Studies, Journal of African Studies, Journal of Social History, Annales de l’Université d’Abidjian, African Studies Review, Les cahiers de la paix, West African Research Association Newsletter, and others.

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