Contributors to this Issue

Dorothy BEA Akoto is an ordained minister of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana (EPCG), and a senior lecturer at Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon, Accra. Her scholarship focuses on the Old Testament, biblical Hebrew language, and gender studies. Akoto is also the District Pastor of the Kisseman District of the EPCG.

Helen Adekunbi Labeodan is a professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Her field of interest is philosophy of religion with an emphasis on gender studies. Labeodan previously was the General Coordinator for the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians and the Hall Warden of the University of Ibadan’s Obafemi Awolowo Hall, the largest female hall in West Africa.

Ruth Oluwakemi Oke holds the doctorate degree (PhD in religious Studies, NT) from the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. She is a senior lecturer at the Federal College of Education, Abeokuta, Nigeria. Oke is a member of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians. Her scholarship focuses on biblical studies and gender issues.

Madipoane Masenya (ngwan’a Mphahlele) is professor of Old Testament Studies in the Department of Biblical and Ancient Studies in the College of Human Sciences at the University of South Africa. Her research and writing focus on African women’s biblical hermeneutics.

The late John Samuel Pobee, aka Papa Kofi Eduam, Ghanaian, Anglican, academic theologian, and ordained priest studied at the University College of Ghana and University of Cambridge, England. His professional work included being a staff member at the University of Ghana and the World Council of Churches, Geneva, and a stint as Academic Dean, Institut Oecumeneque, Bossey, Switzerland. Among his publications are Religion in a Pluralistic Society: Essays in Honour of Rev. Prof. C.G. Baeta Leiden (1976), Towards an African Theology (1979), Persecution and Martyrdom in the Theology of St Paul (1985) and Giving Account of Faith and Hope in Africa (2001). Pobee married career diplomat, Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee, née Nkrumah, presently Ghana’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, New York, USA.