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Tobe Nnamani, MSP, is a member of the Missionary Society of St. Paul of Nigeria. He holds an MA in religious studies, a licentiate in theology, and a doctorate in theological ethics from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. He is the author of the serial Biafra in Retrospect, which is published on the Internet. Fr. Nnamani is the Executive Director of People’s Creative Empowerment International (PCEI), a nongovernmental organization committed to the fight against HIV/AIDS and to the empowerment of community-based organizations in Nigeria. He is currently teaching sociopolitical philosophy and theology at the National Missionary Seminary of St. Paul, in Abuja, Nigeria.
Emeka Xris Obiezu, OSA, PhD, is a researcher of the intersection of theology and social sciences, of religion and violence, of international development, and of religious groups’ relations with international organizations, including the United Nations. He is the permanent representative and advocacy officer of Augustinians International, a nongovernmental organization of the Order of St. Augustine at the United Nations. He is the author of Towards a Politics of Compassion: Socio-political Dimensions of Christian Responses to Suffering (Authorhouse Press, 2008).
Akachi Odoemene holds a PhD in African history from the University of Ibadan. His research interests include African social and cultural history, urban history, ethnic studies, gender and youth studies, and peace and conflict studies. He is a member of many learned societies, including the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), the Association of African Historians, and the International Sociological Association. Odoemene is also a West African (Nigerian) partner/consultant with the University of Oxford’s Centre for Research in Inequality, Human Security, and Ethnicity. He received a 2009 African Humanities Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies and is is currently the Hewlett Visiting Scholar at the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown University.
Chikwendu Christian Ukaegbu is a distinguished senior lecturer in sociology at Northwestern University. He has also been a senior lecturer