Ivor L. Miller is senior lecturer in the Department of History and International Studies at the University of Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. He also holds a research fellowship from the African Studies Center at Boston University and is author of Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba and Aerosol Kingdom: Subway Painters of New York City and coeditor (with P. González Gómes-Cásseres) of The Sacred Language of the Abakuá, all published by University Press of Mississippi.
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