Second Face

Claire Robertson, Associate Professor in the departments of History and Women's Studies at the Ohio State University, has a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in African History, and has specialized in the study of African women, especially traders, for some twenty-five years. She has published numerous articles and four books including Sharing the Same Bowl: A Socioeconomic History of Women and Trade in Accra, Ghana (1984), which won the 1985 Herskovits Prize from the African Studies Association, and Trouble Showed the Way: Women, Men and Trade in the Nairobi Area, 1890-1990 (1997), during the research for which she became friends with Berida Ndambuki.