Anne Katrine Bang research interest lie in the Islamic history of the Western Indian Ocean in the 19th and 20th centuries, including Yemen, Oman, Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique. Her work has mainly focused on various forms of religious change, but also social, legal and political change.

Jesper Bjarnesen is an anthropologist working mainly on migration and mobility through wartime and peace in West Africa. Other interests is wartime displacement, intergenerational relations, rural-urban connections, informal labour recruitment, transnational migration and urban land rights.

Patricia Daley is Professor of the Human Geography of Africa and the Helen Morag Fellow in Geography at Jesus College, Oxford, where she served as Vice-Principal from 2018 to 2021. Her principal research interests are the political economy of population migration; settlement, space, gender, militarism, sexual violence and peace; racial hierarchies and violence (geographies of racialization and coloniality using Critical Race Theory and decolonizing methodologies).

Daniele De Meneghi graduated as veterinarian in 1984 and got his PhD at University of Turin (UniTo) in 1994; he is a diplomate European College Veterinary Public Health since 2004. From 1984 to 1997 he has worked as wildlife veterinarian on game management, and as expert/consultant in livestock production & health in development cooperation projects in Africa.

Francesco Di Gennaro is an Associate Professor in Infectious and Tropical Diseases at the University of Bari, "Aldo Moro". He worked on international cooperation projects in Mozambique, South Sudan, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, and Uganda. His areas of interest are: research in low-income countries, TB, HIV, antibiotic resistance, and medical education.

Paolo Gaibazzi is Senior Researcher in Anthropology at the “Giovanni Maria Bettin” Department of Educational Sciences of the University of Bologna. He has carried out ethnographic research in Gambia and Senegal, in Angola, Italy and Tunisia, specializing in migratory processes and the governance of migration, including the externalization of borders, the legacy of slavery in Africa and in the African diaspora, and the meaning of uncertainty and potential in informal/formal economies.

Alessandro Jedlowski is a media anthropologist at the Les Afriques dans le Monde research centre, Sciences Po Bordeaux.

Kalyango Ronald Sebba (PhD) currently works at the School of Women and Gender Studies, Makerere University. Kalyango does research in Migration including refugees, Gender Analytical studies, Social Policy, Social Research and Project Monitoring and Evaluation. Ronald is part of the Research and Evidence Facility a research consortium led by the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

John Njenga Karugia is a scholar of Transregional Memory Studies, Indian Ocean Studies, Africa-China Relations and Area Studies. He is a member of the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform with a focus on memory politics, memory ethics and responsible cosmopolitanism.

Christian Thibon is an historian specialized in the Great Lakes Region of Africa. He is affiliated to the Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (France).

Di Wu is a Lecturer in Migration Studies at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography of the University of Oxford. He previously worked as a Senior Teaching Fellow at SOAS, University of London (2016 – 2020), after he gained his PhD in Anthropology from London School of Economics.

Jesper Bjarnesen is an anthropologist working mainly on migration and mobility through wartime and peace in West Africa. Other interests is wartime displacement, intergenerational relations, rural-urban connections, informal labour recruitment, transnational migration and urban land rights.

B Camminga (they/them) earned a Doctorate in 2016 from the University of Cape Town's Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA). They have since held a postdoctoral scholarship at Wits University's African Institute for Migration and Society, and several visiting fellowships. They are currently holding a research fellowship at Berlin's Center for Cultural Inquiry (ICI). They work on gender identity and expression issues across the African continent, with a particular emphasis on transgender migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers.

Florence Ebila is a professor at Makerere University's Department of Women & Gender Studies. She earned a Doctorate in African Languages and Literature from the University of Wisconsin, Madison (USA). Her research interests include gender studies, cultural studies, and conflict studies.

Valentina Fusari holds a PhD in Political Science and a Master's degree in Anthropology. She is presently a lecturer at the University of Turin, teaching "History of Africa."

Giulia Micciché is currently working at CIFA NGO as Desk Officer for Development Cooperation programs in Africa (Ethiopia, Djibouti, Senegal) and she has over than twenty years’ experience in North Africa, with a focus on migration and protection of vulnerable groups (unaccompanied minors, victims of trafficking) and gender dynamics in migration.

Amon Ashaba Mwiine holds a PhD in Sociology from Stellenbosch University in South Africa. He is presently a lecturer at Makerere University's School of Women and Gender Studies. His research interests include qualitative ethnographic and narrative methods, gender and politics, and masculinity studies.

Marie Rodet has an MA in Politics and a PhD in African Studies and is a specialist on West Africa. Her research interests include gender, law, Religion, migration, and slavery in francophone West Africa. She has been a Reader in the History of Africa at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, University of London) since September 2020, where she delivers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses.

Philipp Schulz has been a research fellow at the University of Bremen's Institute for Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS) since 2018. He is additionally a research associate at Makerere University's School of Law's Refugee Law Project in Uganda. His research interests include international relations, peace and conflict studies, feminist security studies, and questions of research ethics. His present research is particularly focused with the gendered dynamics of political violence and armed conflict, with a particular emphasis on masculinity conceptions.

Catriona Waitt teaches Clinical Pharmacology and Global Health at the University of Liverpool (UK), and is is a Wellcome Clinical Research Career Development Fellow at the Makerere University College of Health Sciences (Uganda). Her main focus is on medication dose and safety in groups that are complex and frequently overlooked in clinical trials, such as pregnant and breastfeeding women and their infants.