Sa'eed Husaini is a political sociologist with a DPhil in International Development from the University of Oxford (UK) and a postdoctoral researcher at the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) Center for excellence for Urbanization and Habitable Cities, at the University of Lagos (Nigeria). His work examines the political economy of democratization in Africa, focusing on how migration, conflict, and political and economic ideas shape political party organization Nigeria.

Eyo Mensah is a professor of anthropological linguistics in the Department of Linguistics, University of Calabar, Nigeria and is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA), University of Ghana, Legon. His research interests include morphosyntax, pragmatics, language and identity/naming, language and sexuality/gender, youth language and African studies.  He is AHP/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow, Leventis Postdoctoral Researcher (University of London), and Firebird Anthropological Research Fellow.

Abdul-Gafar lectures in the Department of Political Science, Lagos State University and is a Research Associate at the African Centre for the Study of the United States (ACSUS), University of the Witwatersrand.