Dictionary of African Biography
Editor-in-chief: Professor Emmanuel K. Akyeampong, Professor Emmanuel K. Akyeampong, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Author Information
Emmanuel Akyeampong is a Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
Contributors:
There are over 500 contributors to DAB. Notable contributors include: Roger Allen (University of Pennsylvania); Molefi Kete Asante (Temple University); Efraim Barak (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel); David C. Conrad (State University of New York, Emeritus); Cyril Daddieh (Miami University of Ohio); Elizabeth Macharia-Mokobi (University of Botswana); Giacomo Macola (University of Kent, England); Mary Moran (Colgate University); Godfrey Muriuki (University of Nairobi, Kenya); Jean Paul Revez (Université du Québec, Montréal); David Robinson (Michigan State University); Duane W. Roller (Ohio State University); Chris Saunders (Department of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town); Bairu Taflu (University of Hamburg, Germany); Joyce Tyldesley (University of Manchester); Judith Van Allen (Institute for African Development, Cornell University); A. K. Vinogradov (Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)
The executive editor is Steven J. Niven (W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University)
The subject-area editors are: Stanley M. Burstein (California State University, Los Angeles, Emeritus); Chouki El Hamel (Arizona State University); Allen Fromherz (Georgia State University); Israel Gershoni (Tel Aviv University); Lidwien Kapteijns (Wellesley College); Ray Kea (University of California, Riverside); Christopher Lee; Paul Lovejoy (York University, Toronto); Ghislaine Lydon (University of California, Los Angeles); Jonathan Miran (Western Washington University); Evan Mwangi (Northwestern University); Jeremy Rich (Middle Tennessee State University); Kathleen Sheldon (University of California, Los Angeles); Jay Spaulding (Kean University); Thomas Spear (University of Wisconsin)