Owen Logan
is a Research Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts at the
University of Aberdeen. He works with the ‘Lives in the Oil Industry’ oral
history project in the Department of History at the university. An extended
interview on Masquerade was published in Third Text in July 2004. Logan has
exhibited work widely in Europe, North Africa and Nigeria. His publications
include Bloodlines:¬ Vite Allo Spechio (1994) and AHome of Signs and Wonders (1999).
Uzor Maxim Uzaotu is a journalist and author based in Lagos. He wrote and
directed the Doctor of Football and published an account of the Onitsha market
traders riot in his book Day of Blood and Fire in 1979. In 1989 he was
appointed a Distinguished Visitor at the Graduate School of Journalism,
University of Western Ontario in Canada. His novel The Missing Link was
published in Nigeria in 1995.
Femi Folorunso received his doctorate from Edinburgh University for his research
on contemporary Scottish drama and the crisis of post-coloniality. He taught
dramatic literature and cultural theory at universities in Nigeria and Britain,
where he currently lives. He was closely involved in the democratic struggle
against both the Babagida and Abacha military regimes in Nigeria.
The Ejiogbe Twins are performance artists and sculptors from Inisa in Osun
State. They are well-loved in their home town and have been popularly received
by audiences elsewhere in Nigeria and abroad.
