Mayke Kaag is Professor of the Anthropology of Politics and Governance in Africa at Leiden University, and Professor of the Anthropology of Islam in Africa and its Diaspora at the University of Amsterdam. Her work mainly focuses on Africa's global connections in diverse fields.

Alena Thiel is an anthropologist whose work covers public sector digitalization, statistical production and the development of health information systems in Ghana. She recently published The Social Life of Health Data: Health Records and Knowledge Production in Ghana (Palgrave, 2024) with Samuel Ntewusu.

István Tarrósy is Professor of Political Science at the University of Pécs, Hungary, and Visiting Professor at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. He is director of the Africa Research Center and editor-in-chief of the Hungarian Journal of African Studies.