JENDA: A JOURNAL OF CULTURE AND AFRICAN WOMEN STUDIES ISSN: 1530-5686 Issue 8 (2006) NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Oluwakemi A. Adesina is a PhD student in the Department of History, Faculty of Arts, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.

Kabwe Benaya was a post-doctoral fellow at the African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya in 2005. She completed a PhD degree in Social Statistics in 2004 at the University of Southampton, and previously worked as a Lecturer in Demography, University of Zambia from 1994-2004. Her research interests include male involvement in family planning, promotion of HIV/AIDS preventive strategies, and the effect of ARVs on sexual behaviour.

Ismail Bala Garba is a lecturer in the Department of English and French, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria.

Z’étoile Imma is a Ph.D. student at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

Olivia Adwoa Tiwaah Frimpong Kwapong is a lecturer in Principles of Adult Education and Programme Management at the Institute of Adult Education, University of Ghana, Legon. She is currently pursuing a PhD Degree at the University of Ghana with a focus on The Use of ICTs for the Empowerment of Rural Women in Ghana. Her areas of expertise are participatory adult learning, distance learning, gender analysis, and community mobilization.

Lekan Sanni is a lecturer in regional development planning with over twenty years of experience in theoretical and practical aspects of urban and regional planning. He has published numerous articles in reputable journals within and outside Nigeria. His present research foci are on decentralisation and development issues of urban and regional planning and on gender studies.

Meta Schettler is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at California State University at Fresno.

Annie Stopford completed her Ph.D. in Critical Psychology at the University of Western Sydney. She has published several articles on psycho-social research and cross cultural contact zones, and works as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, consultant and teacher in Sydney.

Chi-Chi Undie is Associate Research Scientist at the African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), Nairobi, Kenya. Prior to joining APHRC, she was a lead ethnographer at the Center for Adolescent Health Promotion and Disease Prevention at the Bloomberg School of Public Health of Johns Hopkins University’s. Her research interests include socio-cultural contexts of public health concerns, particularly the intersection of gender ideologies and world-views with public health issues.

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