Charline Kopf is a postdoctoral fellow in Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. Her research focuses on West Africa, with particular attention to infrastructures, mobilities, and labor dynamics in the region. Her current project examines the intersections of particles, pollution, protest, and industrial history in Senegal, with a focus on dust.

Wenzel Geissler teaches at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. He mainly works in Eastern Africa. He is interested in the physical remains of modernity, research and scientific knowledge, and health and livelihood in East Africa's rapidly changing social and natural landscapes.

Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye is an anthropologist at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in France, with fieldwork sites in West Africa and France. Her current project examines how mobility is conceptualized in the region of Kayes, Mali, through a study of a radio station and its sound archives.

Lotte Meinert works at the Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University. Her research centers on Uganda and issues of health, land, post-conflict, gender, generations and time.