Academic Advisory Board
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- Catherine Boone (Professor of Comparative Politics, London School of Economics)
- Andreas Eckert (Professor of African History, Humboldt University Berlin)
- Ruth Hall (Professor at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studie (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape)
- Elisio Macamo (Professor of African Studies, University of Basel)
- Birgit Meyer (Professor of Religious Studies, Utrecht University)
- Paul Nugent (Professor of Comparative African History and African Studies, University of Edinburgh)
- Francis Nyamnjoh (Professor of Anthropology, University of Cape Town)
- Zenebework Tadesse (Principal Vice-President, Ethiopian Academy of Sciences)
- Leonard Wantchekon (Professor in the Politics Department/ Economics Department, Princeton University)
- Björn Wittrock (Vice President, Academia Europaea; Permanent Fellow and Founding Director, Swedish Collegium for Advanced StudyDirector)
- Fatou Sow (Professor, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris Didérot/ Director, Réseau international de solidarité Women Living Under Muslim Laws, Dakar, Sénégal)
- Ibrahima Thioub (Professor for African Studies, Department of History, University of Dakar/ Director of the African Center for Research on Slave Trade and Slavery (CARTE))
