Allen F. Isaacman is Regents Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of numerous books, including the co-authored (with Barbara Isaacman) Dams, Displacement, and the Delusion of Development: Cahora Bassa and its Legacies in Mozambique, 1965-2007, winner of the ASA Book Prize and the AHA Klein Prize in African History. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has won fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations, among others.

Joy M. Chadya is an associate professor at the University of Manitoba. Her research interests include African women and gender, the Zimbabwean liberation struggle, the shifting deathscape in Zimbabwe from the inception of colonial rule, the Zimbabwean economic crisis, and the Zimbabwean diaspora since the 1990s.

Barbara S. Isaacman has coauthored numerous books, including Mozambique's Samora Machel: A Life Cut Short and the award-winning Dams, Displacement and the Delusion of development: Cahora Bassa and its Legacies in Mozambique, 1965-2007.