Benedetta RossiBenedetta Rossi is Lecturer in African Studies at the School of History and Cultures, University of Birmingham. She is editor of Reconfiguring Slavery: West African Trajectories (2009) and Being and Becoming Hausa: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (wit Anne Haour, 2010), and author of many articles focusing on slavery and emancipation in Africa and on international aid to Niger. Read More Read Less