Abikal Borah is Assistant Professor of History at San Diego State University. His research focuses on entangled histories of race and violence in pre-apartheid South Africa. He is coeditor (with Mobolanle E. Sotunsa) of Imagining Vernacular Histories: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola. His peer-reviewed work has appeared in The Journal of African History, Africa Today, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, and Review: Fernand Braudel Center.

Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a Fellow of the Historical Society of Nigeria and the Nigerian Academy of Letters and has served as the President of the African Studies Association in the United States. He is the author of numerous works, including Global Yorùbá: Regional and Diasporic Networks, Colonialism and Violence in Nigeria, and The African Diaspora: Slavery, Modernity, and Globalization. He has also published three memoirs: A Mouth Sweeter than Salt: An African Memoir, Counting the Tiger's Teeth: An African Teenager's Story, and Malaika and the Seven Heavens: A Memoir of My Encounters with Islam.