Editorial: Africa at the Crossroads

Brillian Besi Muhonja; David Owusu-Ansah

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Brillian Besi Muhonja

Brillian Besi Muhonja is Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Africana Studies, and Women’s Studies at James Madison University. Her research and publication areas are Gender Studies/Feminist Theory, African and African American Feminisms, Indigenous and Contemporary Kenyan Cultures, and Language; and her recent publications include Up and Down Purity (2011), winner of a feminist scholarship award, Disneyfication and the Erasure of the African Princess (2010), She Loved and She Ruled That Kitchen: Space and Autonomy in Kenyan Societies (2009), Ogu Ndem: Aggressive Silence (2009), and Notes Towards a Research in African Feminist Theater (2008). She is curator and editor of the Kiswahili Story Database, which publishes 4 issues annually.

David Owusu-Ansah

David Owusu-Ansah is Professor of History and Africana Studies at James Madison University. He serves as the Special Assistant to the President on Faculty Diversity and teaches courses in African history, world history and historical methods. His research interests are Islam in Africa, with special emphasis on religious conversion, and the politics of religion. In addition to several articles and book chapters on Islam, including “Prayer, Amulets, and Healing” in The History of Islam in Africa (2000), he has authored The Islamic Talismanic Tradition in Nineteenth Century Asante (1991), and with Daniel M. McFarland he co-authored The Historical Dictionary of Ghana (1995), the 3rd edition appeared in 2005, with Muhammad Sey and Iddrisu Abdulai. He is engaged in a comprehensive study of Islamic education in his native Ghana.

Editorial: Africa at the Crossroads

Brillian Besi Muhonja, David Owusu-Ansah

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The article examines the concept of crossroads in relation to the Africana world, its identity, and its particularities.

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Africa; Crossroads

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West Africa Review. ISSN: 1525-4488 (online).
Editors: Adeleke Adeeko, Nkiru Nzegwu, and Olufemi Taiwo.

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Editorial: Africa at the Crossroads

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