Martin Banham is Emeritus Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies in the University of Leeds and editor of The Cambridge Guide to Theatre (1988) and co-editor of The Cambridge Guide to African and Caribbean Theatre (1984).James Gibbs teaches at the University of the West of England (Bristol) and has a particular interest in Ghanaian, Nigerian, and Malawian drama.Femi Osofisan, playwright, teaches in the Department of Theatre Arts, University of Ibadan.
Amy Niang is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her research is informed by a broad interest in the history of state formation and related processes. She also investigates substantive questions around theory-formation, representation and knowledge-making in/on the non-West particularly in reference to "Africa" as a moral, material, and political field of enquiry. Her work has been published in Alternatives: Global, Local, Political; Politics; Afrique Contemporaine; African Economic History, African Studies and in a number of edited books. She has held visiting positions at the Universities of Michigan, Princeton,… Halle-Wittenberg, and the West African Research Centre in Senegal.