Lillian E. Ashcraft-Eason, Ph.D., has taught at several universities and currently is professor of history, initiator, and former chair of the Africana Studies Program, and director of the Benin Seminar at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, OH. Darnise C. Martin, Ph.D., is assistant professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA, where she teaches courses in African American Studies and Theological Studies. Oyeronke Olademo, Ph.D., is senior lecturer at the University of Ilorin in Nigeria, where she has taught and researched on comparative religions and women in religion for the past 19 years.