Other Africanists

Henry Bienen, President of Northwestern and political scientist, has researched governance and the role of the military in Tanzania, Kenya, and Nigeria. He has also served as consultant on these issues to numerous United States government agencies.

Virginia DeLancey is a development economist; she has conducted research and taught in Cameroon, Egypt, Somalia, and Nigeria on gender, rural credit, agricultural policy, HIV-AIDS, and environmental issues.

LaRay Denzer, Visiting Scholar, history, specializes in West African biography and social history. Her current interest is a collective biographical study of four Nigerian women nationalists.