NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

PROUDFLESH: A New Afrikan Journal of Culture, Politics & Consciousness

ISSN: 1543-0855

Issue 5 (2007)

Mumia Abu-Jamal can be reached at, ‘#AM-8335’, State Correctional Facility at Greene, 175 ‘Progress’ Drive, Waynesburg, PA.

Jessica Alarcón graduated summa cum laude from North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, NC and upon graduation, embarked upon a Fulbright Hays-Group Project Abroad in Nigeria where she spent the summer studying Yoruba language at Obafemi Awolowo University (formerly the University of Ife). Her research interests are gender and identity in the African Diaspora, Yoruba history and tradition, as well as the performing arts. She is fluent in five languages other than English and has traveled and studied business, languages, and performing arts in Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and the Americas. In 2006 she completed a study at the University of Cambridge, U.K. and subsequently went to Nigeria and the Caribbean for further fieldwork.

Native Alien was raised in Long Island, New York. He is a graduate of Syracuse University.

Dhoruba Bin Wahad, a former Black Panther Party leader from New York, Black Political Prisoner in the USA for nineteen years and a long time Pan-African activist, writer, and lecturer is currently residing in West Africa and is the resident Director of the Institute for Development of Pan-African Policy (IDPAP), a West African based NGO that evaluates and study policies from a grass-root Pan-African perspective; and of BlackStar Consults Limited, a consultant/video production/talent management Company, specializing in development of talent, production of videos and Creative Imaging. He is also the editor of IDPAP’s new Newsletter “African Chronicles”. A Muslim and a political activist, Bin Wahad has participated in and organized several International Tribunals on Political Prisoners and human rights violations in the United States and has worked with civil war refugees in West Africa seeking asylum in the United States and elsewhere. He has written and published extensively and is a regular commentator on local West African talk shows.

Carole Boyce Davies is Professor of English and African-New World Studies at Florida International University. Recruited to build the African-New World Studies Program at FIU, she served as its director for nine years, moving the program to international recognition. She has held distinguished professorships at a number of institutions, including the Herskovits Professor of African Studies and Professor of Comparative Literary Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University. She is author of numerous monographs, edited books, and articles, Black Women, Writing and Identity: Migrations of the Subject (1994), Left of Karl Marx. Claudia Jones, Black/Communist/Woman (2007), Ngambika. Studies of Women in African Literature (1986); Out of the Kumbla. Caribbean Women and Literature (1990); the two-volume Moving Beyond Boundaries (1995), and Decolonizing the Academy. African Diaspora Studies (Africa World Press, 2003). She is co-editor with Isidore Okpewho and Ali Mazrui of The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities (Indiana University Press, 1999) as well as the general editor of a 2-volume The Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora (forthcoming, 2008).

El Hadji Moustapha Diop studied English in Dakar and Germanic Studies at the University of Liège. He is currently preparing to enroll in a PhD program in Comparative Literature.

Nicole Edwards is a MFA student in the Film Department at Howard University.

Allen Kwabena Frimpong is a graduate of Syracuse University, currently residing in New Jersey as a community organizer for the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement's FEED NEWARK! Program as well as the Black August Hip Hop Project in NYC. He is editor of a National Newsletter for MXGM, and he also works as a public health advocate creating alternative healthcare initiatives in the inner city.

Emily Kabir graduated from Syracuse University with a B.S. in Biology and is currently working toward her Doctorate of Physical Therapy at Stony Brook University.

Monifa A. Love writes, teaches, and lives in Maryland with the prayer that those who come after her will find her work useful. She recently completed "Romancing Harlem" with Charles N. Mills and "A Daughter's Workbook for Self-Discovery and Healing." She is now writing a book about Langston Hughes.

Peter Rodrigo is an artist and graduate of Syracuse University. His website is located at Www.RiseWithUs.com.

Thor Ritz is an activist and organizer who, after graduating from Syracuse University, is now living and working in Cobleskill, New York.

Racquel Simone grew up in Jamaica and now lives in New York. She is a doctoral student at Binghamton University where she writes and lives and loves.

David Stein is a recent graduate of Wesleyan University. He currently organizes with Critical Resistance-Oakland towards the abolition of the imprisonment industrial complex. He hopes everyone reading this will help support Critical Resistance's grassroots initiatives and learn more at www.criticalresistance.org.

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