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For more about subscription and advertising information, call Lagos 686870, 680089/2692762 or Fax: Lagos or e/mail: 105271,11 @ compuserve.com. 2618083 Printed by Rainbow Cards Ltd. Cover illustration: Victor Ekpuk Illustrations: Yomi Ola Notes on Contributors Toyin Adewale-Nduka - Belongs to a younger generation of Nigerian women authors. Her collection of poetry NAKED TESTIMONIES was re- cently published. She is currently on a writer's residency programme in Germany. ~TY fc% fr m »« *\ \ \ Wole Alade - Multi-instrumentalist musician, was born in Nigeria where he also had his professional induction. He studied music in Ibadan, Ife and at the Berklee College of Music, Boston, USA. Now he travels and performs widely in and outside the United States where he is at the moment a Visiting Faculty at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, an affiliate ofTiifts University, Boston and Phillips Academy. ^^ James Gibbs - Well-known literary critic. He was a professor, of English at Ibadan, Liege (Belgium) and is currently at Bristol. Si » \ \ -ft Olu Oguibe - painter, poet and art historian in the Stuart Golding Chair in African Art at the University of South Florida. Woeli Dekutsey - Ghanaian publisher, is atrustee of the ZimbabwelriW»a- tional Book Fair and one of the organisers of the Ghana InternationaLBook Fair. >* * \• * Onookome Okome - Poet and art reviewer, teaches film at the University of Calabar, Nigeria. Nobert Aas - Worked at Iwalewa-Haus, Centre for Contemporary African Art at the University of Bayreuth (Germany) for three years. Now he runs art arc, \ an agency for Contetsporary African Art in Bayreuth, together with UlfVierke. * Kofi Anyidoho - Prominent poet and professor of Performing Arts is.the serving director, Institute of Performing Arts, University of Ghana, Legon. hika Okeke - Poet, pairrterand art historian, until recently taught fine art at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He curated the Nigeriansectioji^apfhe Whitechapel exhibition, Seven Stories in 1995. s Pius Adesanmi - Is at the post-graduate school, Department of Modern European Languages, University of Ibadan. Diran Adebayo - Younger generation British novelist of Nigerian descent, read Law at Oxford University, lives in London. Jonathan Haynes - Has written extensively on film and is currently a Senior Fulbright Scholar in the departments of English and Theatre Arts, University of Ibadan. David Aradeon - Professor of Architecture and a leading African architect. He is a consultant to various continental and world bodies. His more recent publication is THE DICTIONARY OF ART, Macmillan, London, 1996. Owen Logan - British photographer, has worked in Morroco, Algeria and in the past three years in Nigeria. 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