Ebenezer Obadare is Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow for Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Washington, D.C., USA.

Wale Adebanwi is Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies and Director, Center for Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

Afe Adogame is Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Religion and Society at Princeton Theological Seminary, USA.