Anene Ejikeme | Assistant Professor

Anene Ejikeme received her PhD from Columbia University in 2003.  Her dissertation was a history of Catholic women in Onitsha, an important market town in Nigeria.  She is currently completing a manuscript, “From Traders to Teachers, based in large part on her dissertation, as well as researching the life of the boxer, Hogan “Kid” Bassey, 1957 world welterweight champion.  With Dr Lynette A Jackson, she is co-editing a volume tentatively entitled “Black Women Travel.” Prior to coming to Trinity, Dr Ejikeme taught at Barnard College in New York, where she also served as Director of the Pan-African Studies Program from 2001 to 2003.  

Publications

Articles & Book Chapters

• “Subterfuge & Resistance:  A History of Infanticide in Onitsha, Nigeria,” in Falola, Toyin, ed., Power and Nationalism in Modern Africa:  Essays in Honor of Don Ohadike (Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press, forthcoming).
• “Let the Women Speak!” At Issues, online journal, forthcoming.
• “Catholic Women in Colonial Nigeria,” in Litzenberger, Caroline and Eileen Groth Lyon, eds., The Human Tradition in Modern Britain (Wilmington, Delaware:  Scholarly Resources Books, 2006), 221-234.

Encyclopedia Entries

• “Jaja of Opobo,” in John J. McCusker, ed., Encyclopedia of World Trade since 1450  (Macmillan, 2005). 
• “Ezana,” “Father Tansi,” and “Lalibela,” in Phyllis Jestice, ed., Encyclopedia of Holy People (Santa Barbara:  California:  ABC-Clio, 2004).

Reviews

• Achebe, Nwando.  Farmers, Traders, Warriors and Kings:  Female Power and Authority in Northern Igboland, 1900-1960 (Portsmouth:  Heinemann, 2005), forthcoming in International Journal of African Historical Studies.
• Benson, Peter, Battling Siki:  A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race and Murder in the 1920s (Fayetteville:  University of Arkansas Press, 2006), forthcoming in International Journal of the History of Sport.
• Téno, Jean-Marie, Director, Video, “Le Malentendu Colonial” (Colonial Misunderstanding; 2004), forthcoming in Interventions:  International Journal of Postcolonial Studies.
• Miescher, Stephan F., Making Men in Ghana (Bloomington:  Indiana University Press, 2005), forthcoming in Men and Masculinities 10:2 (October 2007).
• Robinson, David, Muslim Societies in African History  (New York and Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2004), Journal of Religion in Africa 36:3-4 (November 2006), 402-4.
• Ouzgane, Lahoucine and Robert Morrell, eds., African Masculinities:  Men in Africa from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present (New York and Basingstoke, England:  Palgrave Macmillan; Scottsville, South Africa:  University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2005), H-net, August 2006.

Selected Commentaries

• “A Zoo Replays Old Stereotypes of Africa,” (co-authored with Char Miller), Christian Science Monitor, 7 September 2007
• “Because of Power Vacuum, ‘Giant of Africa’ Running on Empty,” (co-authored with Char Miller), San Antonio Express-News, Sunday August 19, 2007.
• “Warning from Africa” (co-authored with Char Miller), San Antonio Express-News, 18 May 2007 (Reprint of Guardian piece)
• “Today Lake Chad, Tomorrow Lagos?” (co-authored with Char Miller),  The Guardian (Nigeria), 4 May 2007
• “’La Republique’ is a Woman, But Can a Woman Win the Presidency?” Worldpress.org (online), 4 May 2007
• “An African Stance Against China’s Advance,” Christian Science Monitor, 1 February 2007
• “Africa:  China’s Next Imperial Frontier?” East Africa Standard, 9 January 2007
• “Let Uganda Have Peace:  International Court is Wrong to get in the Way,” Dallas Morning News, 26 July 2006
• “Liberia Needs Water, Schools – Not a Trial,” San Antonio Express-News, 21 May 2006
• “And Blood Flows Like Rivers in City of My Birth,” Houston Chronicle, 12 March 2006

Recent Awards:

Hedgebrook Residency, Whidbey Island, Washington, Summer, 2007.

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