Anne V. Adams is Professor Emerita in Africana Studies and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. She served for five years as Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Memorial Centre for Pan African Culture in Accra, Ghana. A former President of the African Literature Association (ALA), her research and publications focus on gender in African Diaspora Literatures and include (co-ed) Ngambika and Essays in Honour of Ama Ata Aidoo At 70: A Reader in Cultural Studies.

Esi Sutherland-Addy, Efua Sutherland’s eldest daughter is Professor at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. Her publications include (co-ed) Women Writing Africa, West Africa and the Sahel, Where the Bead Speaks, a coffee-table photo/poetry/essay book designed by Kati T. Dagadu, whose authorship she proudly shares with Ama Ata Aidoo.