Edmund Abaka is presently associate professor of African history at the University of Miami, where he has been teaching for more than two decades. He was Director of Africana Studies from 2004-2014 and is now a Research Fellow of the Global Centre for Black Studies at the same University. He has written several books including Africa and the Second World War: Africa's "Finest Hour"? (2022). He has contributed many chapters on North Africa, Portuguese Africa, African youth in Ethiopia, Ghana and Libya, and articles on kola and sites of historical memory. He is also the editor of Abibisem: Journal of African Culture and Civilization, which is based at the Department of History, University of Cape Coast.

David Owusu-Ansah is presently professor of African history at James Madison University, where he has been teaching for more than two decades. His book publications include the Islamic Talismanic Tradition in Nineteenth Century Asante (1991), and Islamic Learning, the State and the Challenges of Education in Ghana (2013, with Abdulai Iddrisu and Mark Sey). He has contributed many secularly articles and chapters on Islam and the political history of Ghana. He authored the second and third editions of the Historical Dictionary of Ghana.