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at the University of Nigeria Nsukka, Nigeria, and professor and head of sociology at the University of Wyoming. He was a Fulbright research scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and he also served as visiting associate professor at Saratov State University, Russia, and at the International Institute for Economic Development in Hsin Chu, Taiwan. Ukaegbu’s research focuses on African development and the case of Nigeria in particular. He has researched and published in the areas of science, technology, development, electoral politics, entrepreneurship, leadership, and public policy in Nigeria. He is the author of “Leadership Fatalism and Underdevelopment in Nigeria: Imaginative Policymaking for Human Development,” published in Philosophia Africana (2006), and coauthor with M. Agboli of “Business Environment and Entrepreneurial Activity in Nigeria: Implications for Industrial Development, which appeared in the Journal of Modern African Studies 44 (2006).
Victor Ukaogo is an associate professor, environmental historian, and activist with a PhD from the University of Lagos. He is currently the head of Department of Regional Integration and Diplomacy at Salem University Lokoja, Kogi State. He is the executive director of the Centre for Ethnic and Resource Rights Studies (CEERS), and he has published extensively in reputable journals and contributed chapters to edited books. He is coeditor of Nigerian Studies: Readings in History, Politics, Society and Culture (Goldline & Jacobs, 2010). His newspaper article “Abacha’s 365 Days: Is this Requiem for Nigeria?” earned him weeks of inhuman confinement as a prodemocracy campaigner during Nigeria’s dark years. His research interests include African politics, environmental politics, armed and resource-induced conflicts, and multinational economic engagements, with a particular focus on corporate social responsibility, good governance, democratic consolidation, and North–South relations. He is the editor of Salem Journal of International Affairs (SJIA).
G. N. Uzoigwe is currently professor of history at Mississippi State University, where he has also headed that department (1999–2005). He