Peyi Soyinka-Airewele is associate professor at Ithaca College
where she teaches international and comparative politics with an
emphasis on African politics and socio-political transitions. She
is a fellow of the Global Security and Cooperation (GSC) program of
the Social Science Research Council and the Director of the
Alliance for Community Transformation (Africa). Her research on the
politics of memory in African political transitions has received
recognition from many quarters, including a GSC fellowship, an
invitation to help prepare the final report of the Nigerian Human
Rights Violations Investigation Commission, and most recently,
Fellowship of the Oxford Round Table (Women’s Leadership). She is
the author of Invoking the Past, Conjuring the Nation: Memory,
Communal Citizenship and Cathartic Violence.
Rita Kiki Edozie is a professor of international relations at
Michigan State University where she researches African affairs,
comparative politics, democratization, and international political
economy, with a focus on development. She is the author of People
Power and Democracy: The Popular Movement Against Military
Despotism in Nigeria, 1989-1999 and Reconstructing Africa′s Third
Wave: Comparative African Democratic Politics.
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