• Anene Ejikeme received her PhD from Columbia University. A specialist in modern African history, she studies the politics of gender and economic development in colonial and postcolonial Africa. She has written about women in Onitsha [Nigeria] and she is currently working on a biography of the boxer, Hogan "Kid" Bassey, 1957 world welterweight champion and Nigerian nationalistic icon. Prior to coming to Trinity, Anene taught at Barnard College in New York, where she served as the Director of the Pan-African Studies Program from 2001 to 2003.

    • Ph.D., Columbia University

    • Culture and Customs of Namibia (Greenwood, 2012).
    • "From Traders to Teachers: A History of Elite Women in Onitsha, Nigeria, 1928-1940," Journal of Asian and African Studies, 2011.
    • "Reframing African Women," in Peyi Soyinka-Airewele and Rita Kiki Edozie, eds., Reframing Contemporary Africa (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press,  2009.)
    • "Subterfuge & Resistance: A History of Infanticide in Onitsha, Nigeria," in Falola, Toyin, ed., Power and Nationalism in Modern Africa: Essays in Honor of Don Ohadike (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2008).
    • "Hogan 'Kid' Bassey: Nigerian Icon," in Falola, Toyin and Adam Paddock, ed., Emerging Themes and Methods in African Studies (Trenton, N. J.: Africa World Press, 2008).
    • "Mothers First: Onitsha Women Battle the Government in Colonial and Postcolonial Nigeria, 1956-1964," in Litzenberger, Caroline and Eileen Groth Lyon, eds., The Human Tradition in Modern Britain (Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources Books, 2006).

    • The African Experience
    • Gender Matters in African History
    • Religion in African History
    • Seminar in African History

    • Visiting NEH Chair in Humanities , Albright College, Reading, PA, 2010-2011
    • Hedgebrook Residency, Whidbey Island, Washington, Summer, 2007.

    • At Trinity, Anene teaches introductory and upper level courses on African. She also teaches a popular First Year Seminar on boxing.
    • Anene serves on a number of boards, including the Africa Network, a consortium of liberal arts colleges throughout the United States which seeks to increase the presence of Africa at undergraduate institutions.