Paul Glen Grant
received his PhD in history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2017, and is currently lecturer in world history at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. His research focuses on the cross-cultural process in World Christianity, and especially the ways African Christians have historically imposed indigenous agendas on what was often a foreign religion. His monograph Healing and Power: Christianity in Late Precolonial Ghana is forthcoming from Baylor University Press. His first (non-academic) book was Blessed Are the Uncool: Authentic Living in a World of Show (InterVarsity Press, 2007).
Erik Kennes
(PhD Université de Laval, Québec/Univ. Paris I Sorbonne), worked successively at the University of Antwerp (1992–1999) and the section for contemporary history of the Africa Museum, Tervuren, Belgium (1999–2008), before joining Monusco’s Political Affairs Department in 2009. From 2017–2019 he managed the Carter Center’s Extractive Industries Governance Programme in Lubumbashi. He published extensively on the politics and history of the Democratic Republic of Congo. His latest book, The Katangese Gendarmes and War in Central Africa, Indiana University Press, 2016, was co-authored with Miles Larmer.
Lindie Koorts
is a South African biographer and historian. She obtained her DPhil in History at the University of Stellenbosch, and is currently affiliated to the International Studies Group, University of the Free State. She holds a Newton Advanced Fellowship from the British Academy for her ongoing biographical research. Her biography of D.F. Malan, the man who instituted the policy of apartheid, was the first comprehensive biography of an apartheid leader to have been published after the country’s turn to democracy in 1994. The book was shortlisted for South Africa’s foremost non-fiction awards, including the Sunday Times Alan Paton shortlist, and the KykNET-Rapport shortlist for non-fiction.
Duncan Money
is a historian of central and southern Africa with a particular interest in the history of the mining industry. Much of his research has looked at the history of the Zambian Copperbelt and, more broadly, he is interested in labour,
Elena Moore
is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Families and Societies Research Unit at the Centre for Social Science Research at the University of Cape Town. She is the author of Divorce, Families and Emotion Work (Palgrave, 2017) and (with Chuma Himonga) Reform of Customary Marriage, Divorce and Succession in South Africa (Juta & Co. 2015). Her work has appeared in the Journal of Family Issues; Gender & Society; Critical Social Policy; Families, Relationships and Societies; and the Journal of Southern African Studies.
Iva Peša
is Assistant Professor in contemporary history at the University of Groningen. In 2014 she completed her PhD thesis at Leiden University on the social history of Mwinilunga District, published as Roads through Mwinilunga: A History of Social Change in Northwest Zambia (Brill, 2019). Her research focuses on the social and environmental history of Central Africa. From 2017–2019 she was a Research Associate in environmental history at the University of Oxford, where she worked on the environmental history of the Zambian and Congolese Copperbelt. She co-edited, amongst other books, The Objects of Life in Central Africa (with Robert Ross and Marja Hinfelaar, Brill 2013).
Morgan Robinson
is an Assistant Professor of History at Mississippi State University where she teaches African history. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Eastern African Studies and the Journal of the History of Ideas. She is currently work on a book manuscript entitled Standard Swahili: Expressions of Belonging and Exclusion in Eastern Africa.
Jacqueline de Vries
is a historian specialized in West Africa under British and German rule. In a recent article for War & Society, she discussed the internment of Cameroonian soldiers under German command on Spanish Fernando Po during World War I. She is also the author of Catholic Mission, Colonial Government and Indigenous Response in Kom (Cameroon) (African Studies Centre: Leiden, 1998). Currently she is completing her PhD research at the University of Leiden, on the impact of colonial rule on gender relations in Kom, in British Cameroon.
is a historian and political scientist at the African Studies Centre, University of Leiden. He has worked on various issues of Africa’s international relations and was general co-editor of the Africa Yearbook: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara. He has written extensively on the Sawaba movement in Niger (The Yearning for Relief: A History of the Sawaba Movement in Niger, Brill, 2013; French translation: Le Désir de calme: L’histoire du mouvement Sawaba au Niger, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2017) and is currently working on a biography of Barthélémy Boganda.
Eve Wong
is completing her PhD at the University of Cape Town investigating Khoisan revivalism and the changes and continuities of coloured identity. She is interested in questions of boundaries and border-crossings, the imaginations of the past and future in the present, and the politics of heritage and belonging in the postcolony. She holds an MA in Anthropology from Boston University and an MA in Historical Studies from the University of Cape Town with undergraduate degrees in History, Classical Studies, and Anthropology. She is working with a co-author on a biography of Abdullah Abdurahman (forthcoming).