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Information for: The Journal The Publisher Dr. Raphael Chijioke Njoku, Ph.D. Dr. Raphael Chijioke Njoku, a first class honors graduate of University of Nigeria Nsukka, received two Ph.D.s in: (1) African History from Dalhousie University, Canada, 2003, and (2) African Politics from Free University Brussels, 2001. Before he joined the University of Louisville faculty in 2003, Njoku had taught briefly at the Department of History, Alvan Ikoku College of Education, Owerri, Nigeria. His research specialty is African history and African politics. He is the author of Culture and Customs of Morocco (Greenwood, 2005), and African Cultural Values: Igbo Political Leadership in Colonial Nigeria 1900-1966 (Routledge, 2006), and co-editor of Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa (Routledge, 2007). Njoku has also published 20 articles in scholarly journals, edited volumes, and encyclopedias. His most recent awards include Victor Olurunsola Endowed Research Award and a research fellowship from the New York based Schomburg Center for Research in Black Studies. Njoku is currently working on a book project entitled African Masks and Masquerades and Carnival of the Diaspora. Editor- in-Chief Dr. Dimeji Togunde, Ph.D., Albion College, Albion, Michigan, U.S.A. Managing Editor Oladele O Olawole, D-Net Communications, Norway Editorial Board Dr. Akinrinola, Bankole, Ph.D., Allan Guttmacher Institute, New York, U.S.A. Dr. Abdulkarim Bangura, American University, Washington, D.C.; U.S.A. Dr. Emmanuel Babatunde, Ph.D., Lincoln University, U.S.A. Dr. Joseph O. Falodun, Ph.D., Delaware State University, USA Dr. Folu Folarin Ogundimu, Michigan State University, Michigan, U.S.A. Dr. Andrew D. Grossman; Albion College, U.S.A. Dr. Okechukwu Iheduru; Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. U.S.A. Dr. B. Ikubolajeh Logan; Penn State University, U.S.A. Dr. Raphael Chijioke Njoku; University of Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A. Dr. Ogechi E. Anyanwu; Eastern Kentucky University, U.S.A. Dr. Olakunle A. Ogunbameru; OAU, Ile-Ife, Nigeria Dr. Muyiwa Oladosu, Mira Monitor Consulting U.S.A. Dr. Anthony Olorunnisola, Pennsylvania State University, U.S.A. Dr. Sylvester Osagie, Pennsylvania State University, U.S.A. Dr. Kelebogile Setiloane, University of Delaware, U.S.A. Dr. Wale Adesina, Ph.D., University of Ado-Ekiti Dr. Emmanuel Yewah, Albion College, Michigan, U.S.A Current Edition Volume 2 Archive Volume 1 Announcements Call for papers Resources