Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Falola has published over a hundred books and is the recipient of 20 honorary doctorates as well as several lifetime achievement awards.

Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso is Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Brandeis University, USA, Vice-President of the International Studies Association (ISA, 2024-2025), and Research Fellow at the University of the Free State. She is the co-editor of the three-volume Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies (2021) and has published 11 other books on African politics, women, gender, refugees, and knowledge production in Africa.