West Africa Review (1999)

ISSN: 1525-4488

Notes on Contributors

Kwame Boafo-Arthur is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Ghana, Legon. He earned his MA in Political Science at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada in 1983 and the Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Ghana, Legon in 1991. He is also a Barrister-at-Law (attorney) and a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Ghana. His research focus is the Politics of International Economic Relations, African and Ghanaian Politics.

Misty Bastian is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania USA. She is the author of a number of ethnographic articles on Igbo religious practice, gender, dress, political economy and popular culture. She is co-editor (with Jane L. Parpart), of Great Ideas for Teaching about Africa (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999).

Jane Bryce was born in Tanzania. She spent some years in Nigeria as a journalist and research student at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. Her interests include African women's writing, popular culture, film and contemporary fiction. She has published in all these areas, and currently lectures at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados.

Robert Fatton, Jr. is Professor and Chair of the Department of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia.

Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome is an Assistant Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Fordham University, New York. She is the author of A Sapped Democracy: The Political Economy of the Structural Adjustment Program and the Political Transition in Nigeria, 1983-1993 (Lanham: University Press of America, Inc, 1998). Her research focus is International and African Political Economy, Economic and Political Development, Comparative Politics, and Gobalization.

Olusegun Obasanjo is the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. A former General in the Nigerian Army, he ruled Nigeria from 1976 until 1979 when he handed over power to a democratically elected government. A regular critic of subsequent Nigerian military tyrants, he was in 1995 jailed 15 years by the notorious General Sani Abacha, for an alleged plot to topple the government. After Abacha's sudden death in 1998, and the opening up of electoral politics by General Abdulsalami Abubakar, Obasanjo was released from jail and his conviction overturned. He joined the centrist People's Democratic Party (PDP), became its flag-bearer, and won the presidential elections of February 1999. He was sworn in as President on May 29, 1999. [Editor]

Wole Soyinka Nobel Laureate in Literature, distinguished political activist and human rights campaigner, is chairperson of United Democratic Front of Nigeria (UDFN), an umbrella body of pro-democracy groups. He is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of the Arts at Emory University. [Editor]

Jideofo Uwechia is an official of Industry Canada. He is also a Barrister- at-Law (attorney) and a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. He has an LL.M in Law from the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. His area of focus is Intellectual Property

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