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Animasawun Gbemisola Abdul-Jelil is special assistant on religion and culture to the deputy governor of Ogun State, Abeokuta, Nigeria. He is the author of an Introduction to Conflict Transformation. His doctoral thesis was on methods for sustainable peace between the Hausa and Yoruba of Nigeria, and his current research is on “Godfatherism and Nigeria's Fourth Republic: Violence and Political Insecurity in Ibadan,” a project sponsored by the Institute for French Research in Africa (IFRA), Nigeria. Collin Rajasingham Abraham is a social development consultant at the Malaysian Agency for Skills Development. He has a background in the sociology of development, which he studied at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. He helped set up the Sociology Program at Science University in 1970, and has continued to be active in teaching and research since retiring from Science University. He was selected to undertake research in Malaysia for the United Nations Development Program in 2003. More recently, Abraham has published Speaking Out Loud for National Unity and Integration: Social Change and Nation-Building in Contemporary Malaysia (2008). Kenneth Wayne Ackerson is currently an associate professor of history at his alma mater, Salisbury University in Maryland, USA, where he teaches courses on British imperial, African, and Indian history. He is the author of The African Institution ... log in or subscribe to read full text