Mutombo Nkulu-N’Sengha Editor

Mary Nyangweso is the J. W. H. Peel distinguished Chair in Religious Studies at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina. Her specialty is African religions, Islam, religion and sexuality, religion and gender rights and religion and healthcare. She is author of Female Genital Cutting: Mutilation or Cultural Right? (2014). Female Circumcision: The Interplay Between Religion, Gender and Culture in Kenya (2007) co-author of Religion, Gender-Based Violence, Immigration, and Human Rights, (Routledge, 2019). Her book ‘Transnational Africa: Culture and Religion in the Diaspora is forthcoming.

Mutombo Nkulu-N’Sengha is a tenured Professor at California State University Northridge (Los Angeles) where he teaches, since 2003, a variety of courses including “Religion, Logic and Media,” and “American Religious Diversity.” Prior to CSUN he taught “African Philosophy” at Haverford College, and various courses at Temple University (Philadelphia) and Montclair State University (in New Jersey). Educated in Africa, Europe and the US, Dr Mutombo received training in Philosophy, Egyptology, Christian theology and Religious Studies. He received his Doctorate at Temple University with a thesis on “Philosophical and theological foundations of an African vision of Human Rights.” He is the Founder of the “Bumuntu Peace Institute.”