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Acknowledgments
I want to thank Jeff Braden, Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and North Carolina State University for the support they have provided me during the seven years I have served the ALA: as a member of the Executive Council, as vice president, president, and past president.
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Notes
1. “African Literature Association” in Research in African Literatures 6.1 (Spring 1975): 60–63.
2. (London: James Currey, 2011): 1–11.
3. For more on the history of the ALA see, Peter Nazareth, “A Decade in Review: The ALA at Ten” in ALA Bulletin 10.4 (Fall 1984): 9–11, and the special issue of the ALA Bulletin on “ALA: Past, Present and Future” Vol. 11.2 (Spring 1985).
4. The actual quote reads, “Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable . . . Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.”
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Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi
Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi is distinguished professor of English and Comparative Literature at North Carolina State University where she is assistant dean for Diversity in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. She is the author of Gender in African Women's Writing: Identity, Sexuality, and Difference, Your Madness, Not Mine and The Sacred Door and Other Stories. She co-edited Reflections: An Anthology of New Work by African Women Poets and has guest-edited special issues of scholarly journals. She writes fiction under the pen name Makuchi.