Prof Nicodemus Fru Awasom: Professor of History, University of Ghana

Prof Akintude Akinyemi: Professor of African Studies and Director of the Centre for African Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville

Prof Kashim Ibrahim Tala: Professor of Literature and Ecoculture, University of Buea, Cameroon

Prof H McDougal: Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law, Washington DC, and Member, Editorial Board: Yale Law Journal

Prof Clement Dili Palai: Professor of African Literature and Orality Studies, University of Maroua, Cameroon

Prof Chinedu Okeke: Professor of Education, University of the Free State, South Africa

Prof Ben Page: Professor of African Studies, University College London and Member, Editorial Board: Critical African Studies Journal, University of Edinburgh

Prof Sabello Gatsheni Ndlovu: Professor of African Studies and Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South at the University of Bayreuth, Germany

Prof Achille Mbembe: Professor of Philosophy, Politics and History, Wits Institute for Social and Economy Research (WISER), University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Prof Alpheus Masoga: Professor of African Studies, Orality and Indigenous Knowledge Systems, University of the Free State, South Africa

Prof Russell H Kaschula: Senior Professor of African Languages and Orality Studies, University of the Western Cape, South Africa

Prof Olufemi Abodunrin: Professor of English, University of Limpopo, South Africa

Prof Christa van der Walt: Professor of Language Education, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

Prof Francis Nyamnjoh: Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and Communication studies, School of African and Gender Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Prof Iqbal Parker: Professor of Biochemistry, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Prof Kelvin Ngong Toh: Professor of African and Comparative Literature, University of Bamenda, Cameroon

Prof Kennedy Erlanger: Professor of Physiology, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Prof Micheal Somers: Professor of African Wildlife & Conservation Management, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Prof Rezaul Islam: Professor of Social Work, Institute of Social Welfare & Research, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Prof Beatrice Ekanjume: Professor of Linguistics, National University of Lesotho

Prof Karen Ferreira-Meyers: Professor of Multi-language Studies, University of eSwatini

Prof Akin Oyetade: Professor of African Studies and Political Science, Centre for African Studies, University of Edinburgh.