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Matatu 49 (2017) 487–490 brill.com/mata Notes on Contributors Abba A. Abba received his PhD in English and Literary Studies at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He was singled out as best graduate in English and Literary Studies at Imo State University, Owerri, for the year 2000. His research interests span comparative literature, literary theory, and postcolonial, cultural, and terror- critical studies. The recipient of several academic awards, Dr Abba has pub- lished extensively in local and international journals. including the Journal of Language, Literature and Culture, Okikè: An African Journal of New Writing, and the Nigerian Journal of Folklore Research. He is the current Head of the Depart- ment of English and University Orator at Edwin Clark University, Kiagbodo, Delta State. He has served as the Acting Dean, Faculty of Humanities, Social and Management Sciences. He is the author of the award-winning novel The Ugly Queen (2010) and the play A Lunatic on the Throne (2003). Further works, The Man Who Dared (novel) and Agunze (play), are forthcoming. Toyin Ajao is a Peace and Conflict doctoral fellow at the University of Pretoria where she was an assistant lecturer from 2014 to 2016, teaching International Relations. She is an alumna and associate of the Africa Leadership Centre at King’s College, London and Nairobi. She is also an alumna of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Toyin is a Social Science Research Council (ssrc) 2015–2016 Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellow and a fellow of the Andrew Mellon grant under the Peace and Security research theme at the University of Pretoria. In 2017, she received additional grants for Dissertation Completion Fellowship of the ssrc and the alc. Her research covers human security, peace processes, African peace mechanisms, holistic healing, conflict transformation, social media activism, new media technology, citizen journalism, visionary feminism, and gender and sexual rights. Ignatius Chukwumah (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Literary Stud- ies, Federal University, Wukari, Taraba State, Nigeria, with research interests centred on African literature, African-American literature, indigenous African © koninklijke brill nv, leiden, 2017 | doi: 10.1163/18757421-04902013 488 notes on contributors interpretative symbolic codes, figural and mythic studies, and postcolonial deconstructive studies. He has published in African LiteratureToday (2010), the Tydskrif vir Letterkunde (2013), Ilha do Destero: A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English, and Cultural Studies (2013), the CLCWeb: Comparative Lit- erature and Culture (2013), Matatu (2014), the Journal of Literary Studies (2015), the Forum for World Literature Studies (2015), and a host of other reputable learned journals. Obari Gomba (PhD) teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria. He is also an Honorary Fellow in Writing of the University of Iowa. His books include Thunder Protocol (winner, ana Poetry Prize, 2016) and For Every Homeland (shortlisted for the Nigeria Prize for Literature, 2017). Stephen Kekeghe hails from Imode in Delta State, Nigeria. He is pursuing a doctoral degree on Literature and Psychiatry in the Department of English, University of Ibadan. He currently teaches literary courses in the Department of English, College of Education, Warri as well as at Delta State University, Warri Campus. A literary scholar and creative writer, Kekeghe is the author of the play Pond of Leeches (2015) and the poem “When CanWe Be Sane?” inWordsWithout Borders: Online Magazine for International Literature (October 2012). His areas of interests are literature and medicine, literature and gender, popular literature, and other aspects of modern African literature. Cassandra Ifeoma Nebeife is a Lecturer in the Department of English and Literary Studies, Federal Univer- sity,Wukari, Taraba State, Nigeria, with a research focus on trauma and identity in African literature and postcolonial studies. Augustine Uka Nwanyanwu took his ba (Hons.) in English and Literary Studies at the University of Cal- abar, Nigeria, and his ma in Literature and PhD in African Literature from the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. In 2009, he was elected a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies of the African Humanities Program (acls-ahp). In 2010, Dr Nwanyanwu’s dissertation, “Chinua Achebe’s Fiction: A Study in Stylistic Criticism,” gained the best doctoral thesis in Arts award from the Nigerian Universities Doctoral Theses Award Scheme. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Studies, University of Port Har- court, Nigeria. Matatu 49 (2017) 487–490.