WEST AFRICA REVIEW ISSN: 1525-4488

T. A. Akinyele is a former registrar of the University of Ife at Ile-Ife.

Benjamin Asare is Associate Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, Indiana.

Tshikala Kayembe Biaya, a distinguished scholar of language and urban African popular culture, died in 2002. Some of his works include “‘Crushing the Pistachio’: Eroticism in Senegal and the Art of Ousmane Ndiaye Dago” in Public Culture (2000), and “Le merveilleux dans la parole postscripturale en Afrique,” a special issue of Africa Zamani he edited (1998). The editors thank Achille Mbembe for passing on Biaya’s article to us.

Ginette Curry obtained her Ph.D. in African American and Post-Colonial Literatures in English at the Sorbonne University, Paris III. She is the author of Awakening African Women: The Dynamics of Change published by Cambridge Scholars Press in 2004. Her book is a comparative study of African novels and films about women’s issues in contemporary West Africa and their role in African Development.

Dal Didia is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, Finance and General Business, at Jackson State University, USA. Dr. Didia received his Ph.D. in Economics from State University of New York at Binghamton.

Suzanne Gauch is Assistant Professor of English at Temple University, where she teaches courses in postcolonial literature and theory, women's studies and African film.

Ayo Kehinde lectures in the Department of English at the Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Nigeria.

Siendou A. Konate is a doctoral student in the Department of Comparative Literature at Binghamton University, where is he specializing in modern African literature.

Okey Ndibe is Professor of Literature at Simon Bard College in Massachusetts, a novelist and columnist at the Guardian (Nigeria).

Odia Ofeimun, poet, columnist and political activist.

Wole Soyinka is a Nobel Laureate in Literature and hold the endowed chair in Creative Writing at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Olúfëmi Táíwò is Professor of Philosophy and the Director of African Studies Program at Seattle University.

Alan Wong is Professor of Finance in the School of Business at Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, Indiana.

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West Africa Review: Issue 5, 2004