Biblioteca

EDITORYvonne Vera was born and raised in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, gained her Ph.D. from York University in Canada, and was the Director of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in Bulawayo. Yvonne Vera died at age 40 in 2005Yvonne Vera’s Without a Name and Under the Tongue both won first prize in the Zimbabwe Publishers Literary Awards of 1995 and 1997 respectively. Under the Tongue won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa Region). Yvonne Vera won the Swedish literary award The Voice of Africa 1999.

Esi Sutherland-Addy (Ph.D. Hon, Hon FCP) is senior research fellow, head of the Language, Literature, and Drama Section, Institute of African Studies, and associate director of the African Humanties Institue Program at the University of Ghana. Aminata Diaw teaches in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Sénégal, where she is currently the public affairs director of the Centre for Cultural and Scientific Programs. She is also Secretary General of the Sénégalese Council of Women and Chair for the subcommittee on Humanities and Social Sciences of the National Commission of UNESCO.

Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah, Ph.D., has taught African performance, African and African Diaspora literature, folklore and comparative poetics in Nigeria, Canada and the United States. Among his books are Ogoni's Agonies, Almajiri, and The People's Poet: Emerging Perspectives on Niyi Osundare. Bayo Ogunjimi, Ph.D., deceased in 1996, was a professor of African oral literature and English at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria. His critical essays have appeared in journals around the world.

Chantal Kalisa is an associate professor of francophone studies in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is a coeditor of a book in French on the Rwandan genocide.