Acknowledgements

My Bayero Co-Director throughout this project has been Dr. Ismaila Zango Mohammed. The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S State Department sponsored and funded this exchange project, “A Comparative Curriculum for Criminology and Deviance,” (S-ECAAS-03-GR-282(PS)). My helpful Bureau project officer was Joan Zaffarano. The American Sociological Association (ASA) provided additional funding through the Ford Foundation that enabled six of our Visiting Scholars to attend and present papers at the annual ASA meetings held in Philadelphia. ASA staff officer Carla Howery coordinated this support.

Prior to our grant application Vice Chancellor Musa Abdullahi of Bayero University and President Michael Schwartz of Cleveland State University, coincidentally both professional sociologists and respective former departmental colleagues of mine, signed a memorandum of understanding that pledged their institutions’ support for academic collaboration.

The entire Bayero University community showed warm hospitality to my wife and two sons during my initial two-year academic appointment. Barbara taught part-time in both Communication and Biology departments. Bob and Steve each completed two years of elementary education at the excellent university staff school, a five-minute walk from our comfortable home. During the Cleveland exchange visits some twenty years later, my family reciprocated. Barbara, affectionately called Mum by our visitors, hosted regular weekend dinners at our home, including community friends eager to meet our guests. Bob and Steve also hosted several of our visitors at their respective government and university workplaces.

This project took root in the mid-1970’s. Michael Armer, my senior faculty colleague at Indiana University, learned of my interest in Africa and invited me to continue the post-doctoral research in Kano that he had conducted a decade earlier, before Bayero University had been founded.  His wife and two daughters had accompanied him, and he knew my family would enjoy the opportunity to live in this ancient yet modern culture as much as they had.

Barbara Loomis, Digital Scholarly Publications and Programs Administrator, Cleveland State University Michael Schwartz Library, produced this final Pressbooks copy with great care and expertise.