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About the Authors
Dr.
Ann Lightner-Fuller is pastor
of the Mt. Calvary African Methodist Episcopal Church, Towson,
Maryland, an acclaimed speaker and author of Desperate People:
Sermons for Times Like These and Your Daughters Shall
Preach and Developing Female Mentoring Programs in the
African American Church.
Rev.
Gabriel Ezewudo, C.S.Sp. is a Holy Ghost Father from Nigeria
studying Communications at the University of Montreal, Canada.
Rev. Ezewudo was at one time the Director of the Holy Ghost
Juniorate and House of Formation in Nigeria.
Rita
B. Dandrige teaches English
at the Department of English and Foreign Languages, Norfolk State
University, Norfolk, Virginia.
Dr.
Wavie Gibson, Jr.
received his Ph.D. from Indiana University of Pennsylvania with
concentration on Rhetoric and Linguistics. He has studied French,
Latin, Russian, and Spanish and presently teaches at Salisbury
State University, Salisbury, Maryland.
Dr.
Ali Mazrui is the Director,
Institute of Global Cultural Studies and Albert Schweitzer
Professor in the Humanities Binghamton University State University
of New York at Binghamton, New York; Albert Luthuli
Professor-at-Large University of Jos, Jos Nigeria; Ibn Khaldun
Professor-at-Large School of Islamic and Social Sciences,
Leesburg, Virginia; Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large Emeritus
and Senior Scholar in Africana Studies, Cornell University,
Ithaca, New York; Walter Rodney, Professor , University of Guyana,
Georgetown, Guyana. Dr. Mazrui, a well-known Africanist Scholar,
has published many books.
Dr.
S. Okechukwu Mezu, Publisher of Black Academy Press, Inc., is
also a poet, novelist, critical writer, and author of several
books including The Philosophy of Pan-Africanism, Leopold
Sedar Senghor et la defense et illustration de la civilization
noire, Behind the Rising Sun (novel), The Tropical
Dawn (poems), Black Leaders of the Centuries, ed.; Modern
Black Literature, and others as well as many scholarly
articles in journals in Africa, Europe, and the Americas. He has
published works in French, English, Igbo, and German.
Dr.
Rose Ure Mezu,
Associate Professor, English, Morgan State University, author of
the seminal critical work, Women in Chains: Abandonment in Love
Relationships in the Fiction of Selected West African Writers,
a book of poems Songs of the Hearth, and Leadership,
Culture and Racism, ed.., as well as numerous articles. A
renowned feminist scholar and exponent of womanism. Dr. Rose Mezu
is also the founder and coordinator of the Annual International
and Interdisciplinary Black Creativity Conference at Morgan State
University now in its third year.
Dr.
Mark Anthony Neal
is a professor at State University of New York at Albany.
Rev.
Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker,
senior Pastor of the Canaan Baptist Church of Christ in Harlem, is
a theologian, civil rights leader and cultural historian. He is
the author of several books including The African American
Church: Past, Present, and Future, The Soul of Black
Worship, and Spirits that Dwell in Deep Woods.
Tracey
Walters is a Doctoral
candidate at Howard University. Her areas of interest include
Afro-British and African-American Literatures.
Religion and Society (1999) was
published by Black Academy Press, Inc. / P.O. Box 619 / Randallstown, MD
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