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Anthonia C. Kalu is professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Riverside.  Her numerous publications on African literature include Women, Literature and Development in Africa and the edited Rienner Anthology of African Literature, and she is also author of Broken Lives and Other Stories, a collection of short stories. Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi is professor of English and comparative literature at North Carolina State University. She has published a collection of short stories, Your Madness, Not Mine: Stories of Cameroon, as well as The Sacred Door and Other Stories: Cameroon Folktales of the Beba and Gender in African Women's Writing: Identity, Sexuality, and Difference. Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka is professor in the Departments of Theatre and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas. She is coeditor of African Literature at the Millennium and author of Yoruba Dance: The Semiotics of Movement and Body Attitude in a Nigerian Culture.