Art, Parody, Politics, and the Production of dele jegede's Intellectual Space

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Ogechukwu Ezekwem

Ogechukwu Ezekwem ([email protected]) is a PhD student in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin. She obtained her Bachelor's degree in History and International Studies from the University of Nigeria where she graduated with First Class Honours and received the Best Graduating Student award (Department of History and International Studies). Her doctoral dissertation focuses on midwifery and the politics of childbirth in colonial southeastern Nigeria. She also works on issues regarding gender, wartime medicine, and international involvements in the Nigeria–Biafra War.

Ben Weiss

Ben Weiss ([email protected]) is a PhD student in the African History program at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also completed his undergraduate degree in History, Government, and African Development Studies. His research interests include HIV/AIDS, economic development, foreign aid and investment, health monitoring systems, and pharmaceutical supply networks. His dissertation aims to understand the colonial history of STD surveillance and treatment in southern Africa in order to contextualize more contemporary responses to early HIV/AIDS histories in the same area through the work of a diverse range of postcolonial theorists.

Daniel Jean-Jacques

Daniel Jean-Jacques ([email protected]) received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Central Florida, where he completed his master's thesis entitled “Somali Piracy and the Introduction of Somalia to the Western World.” He is currently a graduate student in his third year at the University of Texas, Austin. His primary research interests are the history of science and empire and Yorùbá history. To this end, his current work explores the role of science in establishing authority and maintaining claims to veracity in 1950s southwestern Nigeria. He is also interested in the history of the African Diaspora – particularly in Haiti.