Jude Cocodia
Mr Cocodia is Lecturer II in the Department of Political Science, Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State, Nigeria.
Yazini Funeka April
Ms Yazini April is Research Specialist at the Africa Institute of South Africa.
Deji Olukotun
Deji Olukotun has obtained the following degrees: J.D. Stanford, M.Phil. and M.A. University of Cape Town, B.A. Yale; and is admitted to the California and New Jersey Bars. The author would like to thank Professor Wilfried Schärf at the University of Cape Town for his patience and counsel in the preparation of this article.
Kelechi Kalu
Dr Kelechi Kalu is a Professor of African American and African Studies at The Ohio State University, Columbus.
Harriet Nabukeera-Musoke
Harriet Nabukeera-Musoke has been working with Isis Women’s International Cross Cultural Exchange (Isis-WICCE) for ten years, where she now presides as the Exchange Programme Coordinator. She has taken part in research missions to document women’s experiences of the armed conflict in Uganda and women’s peace initiatives in Burundi, Liberia and Mozambique.
Mary Ndlovu
Mary Ndlovu is a social justice and human rights activist with a background in education. Originally from Canada, she married a Zimbabwean nationalist in exile in Zambia and since returning with him to Bulawayo in 1980 has lived there, working in teacher education and the legal and human rights NGO sector.
Sheila Meintjes
Professor Sheila Meintjes lectures in Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She teaches African politics, political theory and feminist theory and politics. She was a full-time Commissioner in the Commission on Gender Equality between May 2001 and March 2004.
Anu Pillay
Anu Pillay is an international gender and transitional justice specialist. She worked most recently as gender advisor to the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Lotta Teale
Lotta Teale is Gender Based Violence Legal Programme Officer with the International Rescue Committee, Sierra Leone. Her main focus, currently, is working on implementation of recently passed national legislation on family law, commonly known as the ‘Gender Justice Acts’. She was previously closely involved in the passage of the legislation, while working with the Sierra […]
Ayumi Kusafuka
Ayumi Kusafuka has worked for human rights non-governmental organisations on gender and prosecutions issues. For the International Centre for Transitional Justice, she has worked on truth commissions and gender with a focus on East Timor and South Africa. Most recently, with the International Women’s Human Rights Law Clinic of the City University of New York […]