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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