ASSOCIATE FELLOWS As of December 2010, the following, listed in alphabetical order, are Associate Fellows of Thinking Africa: ATO SEKYI-OUT is Professor Emeritus in the Division of Social Science and the Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought at York University, Toronto, Canada. He was born and grew up in Ghana. He received an A.B in Government from Harvard in 1966 and a Ph.D. in Political Theory from the University of Toronto in 1977. His publications include essays on African literature and social thought, particularly on the Ghanaian writer and thinker Ayi Kwei Armah and Fanon’s Dialectic of Experience. Among his notable public addresses and lectures are “Towards a Post-Apartheid Political Morality” presented to the Einstein Forum in Berlin in 2001 and “Deferring to Difference, Cultivating the Civil Commons, Honouring Humanity: What’s the Left Universalist to Do?” given in Vancouver in 2006. He has taught a number of courses which either revised from an existing syllabus (Critical Theory of Society) or fashioned as wholly new offerings (Marxism and Political Discourse; Fanon and Contemporary Social Thought). His book on Fanon has been widely mentioned and discussed in commentaries from North America to South Africa, where some principal critics of the “post-apartheid” dispensation in particular find the central argument of the book – to say nothing of the fears and hopes it evokes – useful. He is currently at work on a book provisionally entitled Essays in Left Universalism. BRUCE BAKER is Professor of African Security and Director of the African Studies Centre at Coventry University. His published articles and books cover African democratisation, governance, policing, security sector reform, popular justice and informal justice. His current research focus is informal and formal policing in postconflict African states and has led to the publication of Multi-choice Policing in Africa, Security in Post-conflict Africa: The Role of Non-State Policing; and numerous articles. He has conducted fieldwork in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa, Rwanda, Uganda, The Gambia, Sierra Leone, Cape Verde, Seychelles, Liberia, Southern Sudan and Comoros. Visit his webpage at http://www.coventry.ac.uk/cu/d/338/a/6166. CHRISSIE BOUGHEY is Dean of Teaching and Learning at Rhodes University. Chrissie came to South Africa in 1999 after spending many years teaching English as a second/foreign language in places such as Spain, the Middle East and the United Kingdom. She worked in Academic Development at the University of the Western Cape and the University of Zululand before taking up the post of Director of the CHERTL at Rhodes in 1999. Since then, she has been involved in a number of national initiatives directed at the assurance of quality and the improvement of teaching and learning in higher education. She supervises widely at doctoral level and, in 2005, was awarded a fellowship by the South African Association for Research and Development in Higher Education because of her work in Academic Development. Visit her web-page at http://www.ru.ac.za/chertl/chertl/staff. ROGER BROMLEY is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at Nottingham University. He is the author of Lost Narratives: Popular Fictions, Politics and Recent History, Narratives for a New Belonging: Diasporic Cultural Fictions, From Alice to Buena Vista: the Films of Wim Wenders, and co-editor of A Cultural Studies Reader: History, Theory, Practice and A Reader in Cultural Studies. He pioneered the academic study of popular fiction in the 1970s and has also published a large number of scholarly articles and book chapters (including work on Rwanda and South Africa), and spoken at conferences in 17 countries. As well as working on issues of migration, identity, and narrative, he has written on film from a cultural studies perspective, and his work in progress, Narratives of Hope? Conflict, Reconciliation and Cultural Fictions (on film, literature, performance and commemoration in the context of Bosnia, Rwanda, and South Africa) combines these different approaches. He is the Chair of the Advisory Board of the Centre for the Study of Post-Conflict Cultures at the University of Nottingham, and for a number of years he was on the executive of the Association for the Teaching of African, Caribbean, and Asian Literatures (Vice-President), chaired the Raymond Williams Trust, sat on the Board of Directors of the Broadway Media Centre in Nottingham, and chaired the governing body of an inner city school in Nottingham. Visit his webpage at http://nottingham.academia.edu/RogerBromley. PATRICK CHABAL is Chair in African History and Politics at Kings College London. For the past four years, Patrick Chabal has been engaged in a long-term project combining the study of culture in comparative politics and an enquiry into the theory of the social sciences. The first stage of this work resulted in a book, Culture Troubles: politics and the interpretation of meaning. The second was developed at greater length during the course of his Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton in 2006-2007 and will also lead to a book publication. His previous research concentrated on two main areas; firstly, the political analysis of contemporary Africa within the framework of the comparative study of the developing world, which resulted in, among others, the publication of Africa: the politics of suffering and smiling, Africa Works: disorder as political instrument and Power in Africa; secondly, the postcolonial history, politics and literature of Portuguese-speaking Africa on which he published Angola: the weight of history, A History of Postcolonial Lusophone Africa, The Postcolonial Literature of Lusophone Africa, Vozes Moçambicanas: literatura e nacionalidade and Amílcar Cabral. Patrick Chabal continues his research on the modern and contemporary history of Africa, with a special interest in the comparative analysis of the continent since independence. Visit his webpage at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/history/staff/academic/chabal.html. JACQUES DEPELCHIN is a committed intellectual, academic, and activist for peace, democracy, transparency and pro-people politics in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He was born in the Congo and educated at Lovanium University (Kinshasa) in the DRC, the University of London, Johns Hopkins University in Italy, and Stanford. He has taught African History and related subjects at UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, San Francisco State, Stanford, Syracuse, and universities in DR Congo, Mozambique, and Tanzania. He was present in the Eastern Congo during the most recent war in 1996-2002, and was a member of the non-militarist RCD-Kisangani movement led by Ernest Wamba dia Wamba which opposed continuation of the war. He participated in the negotiations leading to the Lusaka Cease-fire, those leading to Sun City-1 in 2002, and later, in portions of the negotiations leading to the Global and Inclusive Accord in Pretoria, 2003. He is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Berkeley-based Ota Benga International Alliance for Peace in the DR Congo. Under its umbrella, he is researching American and Congolese social healing and bringing together the healers, as well as lecturing and writing on the DR Congo to improve American understanding of its history and present realities. The Ota Benga Alliance is linked with a sister organization in Kinshasa, The Ota Benga Center for Human Dignity. You can read more about him on the website of the Ota Benga Alliance at http://www.otabenga.org/node/4. MICHAEL ONYEBUCHI EZE was a Stiftung Mercator Foundation Research Fellow at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut (Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities) in Essen, Germany from 2006-2009. He received his PhD in Intellectual History from Univesität Witten-Herdecke, Germany. He teaches African studies at the University of Augsburg, Germany and until recently, Goethe Universität Frankfurt. He is the author of two books, The Politics of History in Contemporary Africa and Intellectual History in Contemporary South Africa both from Palgrave-Macmillan. He has also published in many academic journals and is currently contracted for four new monographs (Palgrave Companion to African Intellectual History; Nigeria – Historicizing a failed state; A theory of an African Humanism; A New Introduction to African Philosophy – a Dialogue with Kwasi Wiredu). Visit his webpage at http://www.Africancommunitarianism.com. GRANT FARRED is Professor in the Africana Studies and Research Centre at Cornell University. He previously taught literature and cultural studies at Duke University. He also taught at Williams College and Michigan University. Farred earned his PhD. from Princeton University in 1997, and an MA from Columbia University in 1990 after a BA Honours from University of the Western Cape, in Cape Town, South Africa in 1988. He has served as General Editor of the prestigious journal of critical cultural studies, South Atlantic Quarterly (SAQ) since 2002. He has published in a range of areas, including postcolonial theory, race, formation of intellectuals, sport's theory, and cultural studies and literary studies. His books include Midfielder's Moment: Coloured Literature and Culture in Contemporary South Africa, What's My Name? Black Vernacular Intellectuals, Phantom Calls: Race and the Globalization of the NBA, and his most recent Long Distance Love: A Passion for Football, He is completing a fourth book manuscript entitled, Bodies in Motion, Bodies at Rest (forthcoming in from University of Minnesota Press, dedicated to thinking of the philosophy of athletic movement.) Farred also edited a volume entitled Rethinking CLR James, a collection of essays on the Caribbean intellectual written by major scholars in the field of history, literary criticism and cultural studies. He edited a special issue of SAQ (2004) entitled After the Thrill Is Gone: A Decade of Post-Apartheid South Africa, a serious appraisal of South African democracy, its failure and its successes, in the post-apartheid era. Visit his webpage at http://asrc.cornell.edu/grant.html. NIGEL C. GIBSON directs the Honors program and teaches in the Institute of Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies at Emerson College in Boston, USA. He is author of Fanonian Practices in South Africa: From Steve Biko to Abahlali baseMjondolo and Fanon: The Postcolonial Imagination (awarded the Caribbean Philosophy Association’s “Frantz Fanon Prize” in 2009) and the editor of a number of books, including Rethinking Fanon: The Continuing Challenge; Adorno: A Critical Reader (with Andrew Rubin) Contested Terrains and Constructed Categories: Contemporary Africa in Focus (with George C. Bond); Challenging Hegemony: Social Movements and the Quest for a New Humanism in Post-Apartheid South Africa, and Biko Lives: Contesting the Legacies of Steve Biko (with Andile Mngxitama and Amanda Alexander). He is also the editor of the Journal of Asian and African Studies and is currently completing a book,. Visit his webpage at http://www.emerson.edu/academics/departments/liberal-artsinterdisciplinary-studies/faculty?facultyID=359&filter=P. JANE GORDON is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Sciences at Temple University. She is author of Why They Couldn’t Wait: A Critique of the Black-Jewish Conflict Over Community Control in Ocean-Hill Brownsville, 1967–1971 which was listed by The Gotham Gazette as one of the four best books recently published on Civil Rights. She is also author of Not Only the Master’s Tools and co-editor of A Companion to African-American Studies which was chosen as the NetLibrary eBook of the Month for February 2007. She also coauthored Of Divine Warning: Reading Disaster in the Modern Age (Paradigm Publishers, 2009) and is completing her next book, Creolizing Political Theory: Reading Rousseau through Fanon. Dr Gordon teaches modern and contemporary political thought, black political thought, politics and theory of education, modern women political thinkers, political theory in literature and film, and race and politics. Visit her webpage at http://www.temple.edu/polsci/gordon/index.htm. LEWIS GORDON is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy at Temple University, where he also is the founding director of the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought and the Center for Afro-Jewish Studies. He is the author of seven books, co-author of one, editor of one, and co-editor of three: Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism; Fanon and the Crisis of European Man: An Essay on Philosophy and the Human Sciences; Her Majesty’s Other Children: Sketches of Racism in a Neocolonial Age, which won the Gustavus Myer Award for Outstanding Book on Human Rights in the United States; Existentia Africana: Understanding Africana Existential Thought; Disciplinary Decadence: Living Thought in Trying Times; An Introduction to Africana Philosophy; and, with Jane Anna Gordon, Of Divine Warning: Reading Disaster in the Modern Age; Existence in Black: An Anthology of Black Existential Philosophy; with TD Sharpley-Whiting and R. T. White, Fanon: A Critical Reader; with Jane Anna Gordon, A Companion to African-American Studies and Not Only the Master’s Tools: AfricanAmerican Studies in Theory and Practice. His forthcoming books are No Longer Enslaved Yet Not Quite Free: Essays on Freedom, Justice, and the Decolonization of Knowledge and What Fanon Really Said. Before joining Temple, Professor Gordon taught at Brown University, where he was the founding chairperson of the Department of Africana Studies. Professor Gordon also teaches as a visiting professor at the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica and was the Jay Newman Visiting Professor of Philosophy of Culture at Brooklyn College (spring 2010). Professor Gordon has lectured all over the globe and has been the subject of academic studies and colloquia. He was President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association (2003–2008). SIBA GROVOGUI is Professor of International Relations and Political Theory at John Hopkins University. He is author of Sovereigns, Quasi-Sovereigns and Africa; Race and Self-Determination in International Law and Beyond Eurocentrism and Anarchy. He has published on regimes of sovereignty, race in international theory and eurocentrism in international relations. One of his current book projects focuses on rethinking the international in the discipline of international relations while another explores the rule of law and global governance in Chad. Visit his website at http://www.grovogui.com/ or http://politicalscience.jhu.edu/bios/siba-grovogui/. GILLIAN HART is Chair of Development Studies at Berkeley University as well as adjunct professor in the School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Her research interests include political economy, social theory, critical development studies, gender, agrarian and regional studies, labour, Southern Africa, Southeast Asia. She is author of Disabling Globalization: Places of Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa as well as numerous journal and popular articles on a range of issues. As Adjunct Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, she participates in a research cluster program with South African graduate students and is also working collaboratively with a group of South African and Indonesian scholars and activists to explore the rise of agrarian movements in post-apartheid South Africa and post-Suharto Indonesia, and the connections they are forging with one another. Visit her website at http://geogweb.berkeley.edu/PeopleHistory/faculty/G_Hart.html. MABOGO MORE is a former Associate Professor of Philosophy at the former University of the North and University of Durban-Westville. He is currently teaching political philosophy in the School of Politics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He has published a number of articles on African philosophy, social philosophy and political philosophy in journals such as South African Journal of Philosophy, Theoria, Alternation, Dialogue and Universalism, African Journal of Political Science, Quest and Philosophia Africana. He has also contributed a number of book chapters in edited books. MICHAEL NEOCOSMOS is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa and Honorary Professor in Global Movements at Monash University, Australia. He has taught at various universities in Britain and in Africa, such as the University of Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania, the University of Swaziland, the National University of Lesotho, the University of Botswana where and the University of Pretoria South Africa. His main fields of research have included Rural Development, Migrant labour, Ethnicity, Citizenship, State and Civil Society, Political Transition as well as issues of Social Theory concerning Development, Democracy, Human Rights and Political Subjectivities. His main publications include: Social Relations in Rural Swaziland (editor) (1987); The Agrarian Question in Southern Africa (1993); From Foreign Natives to Native Foreigners: Explaining Xenophobia in South Africa (2006 and 2010). He is currently finishing a book on Rethinking Politics in Contemporary Africa. Visit his webpage at http://humanities.uwc.ac.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70:prof essor-michael-neocosmos&catid=44:visiting-research-professors&Itemid=57. RAJ PATEL is an award winning writer, academic and activist. He has degrees from Oxford University, the London School of Economics and Cornell University, has been a visiting scholar at Yale, and is now a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley's Center for African Studies, as well as an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System, and the New York Times and international bestseller, The Value of Nothing. He has also coauthored Food Rebellions with Eric Holt-Gimenez, and Promised Land, with Peter Rosset and Michael Courville. He has also published widely in the academic press, with articles in peer-reviewed philosophy, politics, sociology and economics journals. As a fellow at the Institute for Food and Development Policy, he has testified in front of US Congress on the origins of the 2008 food crisis, and continues to advise the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. He has lectured on subjects ranging from agriculture, climate change, and social movements to slums and fast food to governments, universities, unions, progressive groups and the media in the US, Canada, the UK, Spain, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, India, Thailand, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. He has appeared on CNN, Al Jazeera, BBC, NPR, PBS, DemocracyNow!, and has written for the Guardian, Mail on Sunday, Observer, The Nation, Atlantic Monthly Food Channel, NYTimes.com, San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times, among others. Visit his website at http://rajpatel.org/.