| Patrick O. Alia
| University of Nairobi, Kenya |
| Kunle Amuwo
| International Crisis Group West Africa Project, Dakar, Senegal |
| N'Dri Therese Assie-Lumumba
| Cornell University, New York, USA |
| Toyin Falola
| Jacob and Frances Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, University of Texas, USA |
| Raghav Gaiha
| University of Delhi, India |
| John Edward Higginson
| University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA |
| Kempe Ronald Hope, Sr
| United Nations Economics Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
| Chi Huang
| National Chengchi University, Taiwan |
| Ken'ichi Ikeda
| The University of Tokyo, Japan |
| Joseph G Jabbra
| Lebanese American University, Lebanon |
| Kelechi A Kalu
| Vice Provost International Affairs and Professor of Political Science, University of California, Riverside |
| Maghan Keita
| Villanova University, USA |
| Wei-chin Lee
| Professor of Communication, Wake Forest University, North Carolina, United States |
| Shangli Lin
| Fudan Unviersity, China |
| Mahmood Mamdani
| Makerere Institute, Uganda |
| Stephen Ndegwa
| University of California, Los Angeles, USA |
| R. Norton
| Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia |
| Ebrima Sall
| Trust Africa, Senegal |
| Yoshimichi Sato
| Tohoku University, Japan |
| AbdouMaliq Simone
| Goldsmiths, University of London, UK |
| Terisa E. Turner
| University of Guelph, Canada |
| Imraan Valodia
| University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg |