Nene-Lomotey Kuditchar is a lecturer at the Department of Political Science and a Fellow at the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa, University of Ghana. His research interests include meta-power theory, critical realism, African democracy and international politics. He is also an adjunct instructor at the Legon Center for International Affairs and Diplomacy and the Institute for Statistical Social and Economic Research (all at the University of Ghana) and the Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College.

Tongnoma Zongo is a geographer with a joint PhD. from the University of Paris 1 Sorbonne Pantheon (France) and the University Joseph Ki Zerbo (Burkina Faso), with expertise on the political geography of mineral resources. His research focuses on gold and territorial dynamics in Burkina Faso. Tongnoma Zongo is a Research Associate at the Institut des Sciences des Sociétés (INSS) of Burkina Faso.

Diana Ayeh is a Research Associate at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig (Germany). From 2016 to 2019 she was a member of the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 1199 “Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition” at Leipzig University where she completed her PhD on industrial gold mining in Burkina Faso. Her current research focuses on company-state-community relations in West African and German (post)mining regions.

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Oluwayemisi Olusola Adebomi received her PhD from University of Ibadan, Nigeria in 2017 and currently teaches in the General Studies Department of the Federal University of Technology, Akure. She has won the postdoctoral fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany and is also a grantee of the African-German Network of Excellence in Science (AGNES).