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 Penelope Scott Xi’an Jiaotong–Liverpool University, Suzhou, China

Prof H. McDougal Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law, Washington D.C., 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

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

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

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

Prof Olufemi Abodunrin Professor of English, University of Limpopo

Prof Christa Van der Walt Professor of Language Education, University of Stellenbosch

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

Prof Iqbal Parker Professor of Biochemistry, University of Cape Town

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

Prof Kennedy Erlanger Professor of Physiology, University of the Witwatersrand

Prof Michael Somers Professor of African Wildlife & Conservation Management, University of Pretoria

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

Prof M Davhana-Maselesele Professor of  Nursing Sciences, University of Mpumalanga

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.