Andreas Esheté
President, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa

Elizabeth Wolde Giorgis
Director, IES, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa   

Salah M. Hassan
Professor and Director, Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Carina E. Ray
Assistant Professor, History Department, Fordham University, New York City

Bahru Zewde
Professor, Historian, and President of the Forum for Social Science

Atta El-Batahani
Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Khartoum

Benaiah Yongo-Bure
Professor, Liberal Studies, Kettering University, Flint, Michigan

Abdullahi Osman El-Tom
Senior Lecturer and Chair, Department of Anthropology, National University of Ireland, Maynooth

Musa Adam Abdul-Jalil
Professor, Department of Sociology & Social Anthropology, Faculty of Economic & Social Studies, University of Khartoum, Khartoum

Zenebework Tadesse
Researcher, Forum for Social Science Studies, Coordinator for UNISA, Addis Ababa

Mahmood Mamdani
Herbert Lehman Professor of Government, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, New York City

Tekalign Wolde Mariam
Professor, History Department, Addis Ababa University

Ahmed Sikainga
Professor, History Department, Ohio State University, Columbus

Gerard Prunier
Research professor at the University of Paris, Former Director of The French Centre for Ethiopian Studies in Addis Ababa

Timnit Abraha
Regional Coordinator, Inter-Africa Group, Addis Ababa

Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf
Professor, Qatar University, Doha

Karin Willemse
Professor, Department of Anthropology, Erasmus University, Rotterdam

Fahima A. Hashim
Director, Salmmah Women’s Resource Centre, Khartoum

Zaynab M. Elsawi
Coordinator of Sudanese Women Empowerment for Peace, Khartoum

Ambassador Dr. Nureldin Satti
UNESCO Representative to Ethiopia, Djibouti, the African Union, and IGAD, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Mansour Khalid
Former Sudan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Member of the Political Bureau, Sudan People Liberation Movement (SPLM), Khartoum

Dr Jean-Bosco Butera
Chair of Peace and Security Studies, Addis Ababa University, and Former Director of the Africa Program of the United Nations-affiliated University for Peace (UPEACE)

Kamal El Gizouli
Lawyer, Human Rights Activist, Poet, and Writer, Khartoum

Amira Khair
Human Rights Activist

Adrienne Fricke
Independent Consultant, Boston

Grant Farred
Professor, Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Meaza Ashenafi
Member, Economic Commission for Africa, Founder and Former President of Ethiopian Women Lawyer's Association, Addis Ababa

Tamerat Kedebe
Director of Inter Africa Group, Addis Ababa

Al-Tayib Zain Al-Abdin
Professor of Political Science and Advisor to Vice Chancellor, University of Khartoum, Sudan

Abaker Mohamed Abuelbashar
Independent Scholar and Member of the Leadership of Sudan Liberation Army, London

Professor Mogobe Ramose
Regional Coordinator, UNISA, Addis Ababa

Salih Mahmoud Osman
Member of the Transitional Parliament, Lawyer, and Human Rights Activist, Khartoum

Yasir Arman
Deputy Secretary-General, Sudan People Liberation Movement (SPLM), Deputy Member of the SPLM’s Darfur Task Force, Khartoum

Kassahun Checole
Publisher, Africa World Press

Els van der Plas
Director, Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development, The Netherlands

Issam A. Abdelhafiez
Artist and Photographer, Khartoum Sudan

Eric Acree
Librarian, Africana Library, Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York