Paul Derrick Dang A Goufan wrote a thesis in the history of international relations, defended at the University of Douala. His research delves into the international projection of Cameroon in the field of tourism from 1960 to 2014. With numerous publications to his credit, his areas of interest encompass the history of international relations, international tourism, cultural policies, and the dynamics of sub-regional integration. He serves as an Assistant in the Department of Tourism and Hospitality at the Higher Technical Teacher Training College (HTTTC) of the University of Ebolowa in Cameroon.

Chukwudi is a geographer, environmentalist and peacebuilder. He uses his experience and skills in research, capacity building and geographic information systems (GIS) to provide solutions to social, economic and environmental problems. He holds a PhD in Population and Development Studies from the University of Calabar, where he studied the effects of socio-ecological factors on herder-farmer conflicts in Nigeria. He has also published widely on solution-based research on issues such as climate change, conflict, access to clean water, among others. Chukwudi has had the opportunity to contribute to prestigious conferences such as Globelics in Ghana, NetSci-X in Japan, and the Model-based Evidence on Innovation and Development (MEIDE) conference at the United Nations University in Côte d'Ivoire. He has also participated in programs organized by the French Institute for Research in Africa (IFRA), the African Network for the Economics of Learning, Innovation and Capacity Building Systems (AFRICALICS), etc.

Toure is currently serving as an Assistant Professor at the University of Ségou in Mali. He is the head of the Department of Agroeconomics and Agricultural Extension at the Faculty of Agronomy and Animal Medicine (FAMA). His instructional portfolio includes courses in Economic Analysis, Econometrics, Macroeconomics, Agricultural Economics, and Project Management.
Author of numerous publications on various topics related to development economics, particularly in agricultural economics, Toure is affiliated as a researcher with the Center for Expertise and Applied Research in Development (CERAD). A graduate of the University of Paris Est Créteil and UCAD, his research spans a relatively diverse range of topics, including agricultural credit, economic development, agricultural productivity, and climate change.

Amanda Jane Lieto is a PhD Candidate at Africa University in Zimbabwe. She focuses on governance and her thesis is titled: The impact of climate related disasters on women smallholder banana farmers and food household security in Chipinge. She holds a master’s degree in Public Policy and Governance and her areas of interest are public policy, food security, gender, climate change, migration, economic justice, and resilience. She has published peer reviewed journal articles with the Journal for Public Policy in Africa. She consults widely in the space of women’s economic empowerment and financial inclusion, smart agriculture, and leadership. She is also the Southern Africa regional resource mobilization coordinator for Africans Rising a pan African movement that works across Africa. She was awarded the Women Economic Forum WEF, Iconic Woman Making the World a Better Place award and the Global Student Entrepreneur Award where she represented Zimbabwe in Washington DC as a tech entrepreneur.

Charly Tsala Ondobo, phD student at the Faculty of Economics and Management of the University of Ngaoundéré, Cameroon, is writing a thesis in political and institutional economics, author and co-author of several scientific articles and collective works published, consultant to the Network of African Institutions for Local Government Financing (RIAFCO), head of the department of economic and statistical affairs at the sub-regional observatory of community integration in Central Africa (OBSIC-AC, Association), success ambassador to the NGO Interweave Solution and facilitator of autonomy groups.

Serigne Momar Sarr holds a doctorate in Sociology from the Gaston Berger University of Saint-Louis (Senegal) and the University of Strasbourg (France), and a DEA in Political Science and is competent in Anthropology. He is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar (UCAD) and holds a position in environmental sociology. He is a member of the Laboratory of Sociology, Anthropology and Psychology (LASAP-UCAD-Dakar), of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC-Bloomington), of the Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Française (AISLF-France) and an associate member of the Centre de Recherche sur le Développement Territorial (CRDT-UQAR-Rimouski) and the Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Transformations Économiques et Sociales (LARTES-IFAN-Dakar). He is the author of several articles and scientific communications, book and special issue coordinations, and panel discussions. His research topics and expertise are multiple.

Muhindo Muhesi Reagan is Congolese from the DRC. He is currently a post-graduate student in Political Science and holds a Bachelor's degree in Political Science from the Catholic University of Graben of Butembo (DR Congo, North Kivu Province). He is a Lecturer and Research Assistant in the Faculty of Social, Political and Administrative Sciences at the Catholic University of Graben of Butembo since December 2018. In addition to supervising students during their final year and dissertation work, he assists professors in the following courses: Citizenship Education ; Introduction to Scientific Research; Political Communication; Political and Administrative Aspects of Development; Information and Public Opinion; Problems of Economic Integration. He is the author and co-author of two articles published in 2020 by Editions Universitaires Européennes and is currently preparing several others.

Loroux Serge Pacôme Junior Djokouri is Ivorian and holds a Ph.D. in Contemporary History. His doctoral research focused on the dynamics of traditional political power involving reformist village chiefs in the Bété villages of Gagnoa, Ivory Coast. As a researcher, he primarily directs his researches towards the transformations and bureaucratization of organizations in contemporary rural settings. In this context, he has authored several publications delineating the processes and functioning of these changes associated with modernization. Actively participating in various academic activities, he served as a member of the organizing committee for the Young Researchers in African Studies (JCEA) 2022 at the University Jean Jaurès in Toulouse. He has presented at several conferences, with his most recent presentation occurring on November 24 and 25, 2022, at the University of Artois in Arras, and focused on the role of stepmothers among the Bété.

A graduate from the School of Governance and Economics (EGE) in Rabat and the Institute of Development Studies of the Sorbonne (IEDES) in Paris, Fadoua Mhidia is a doctoral student in Political Sciences at the Center for Global Studies of the International University of Rabat under the supervision of Mr. Jean-Noël Ferrié and works on the reception of public action. Her dissertation focuses on the implementation of the conditional cash transfer program TAYSSIR in the province of Chefchaouen in Morocco.

Sylvain NDONG ATOK holds a PhD in Political Science/International Relations from the Institute of International Relations of Cameroon (IRIC). In addition to military strategy, geopolitics and maritime geostrategy, his areas of research also revolve around regional integration, pan-Africanism, peace and security issues and the decolonization of knowledge in Africa. A prolific author, he has already written two books, notably Maritime Geostrategy in Central Africa (Publibook, 2022) and Maritime Conflicts in Central Africa (Generis Publishing, 2022), as well as a dozen articles published in collective works and scientific journals. He is currently a researcher at the Centre de Recherches et de Documentation (CRD) of the École Supérieure Internationale des Forces de Sécurité (EIFORCES) and a lecturer at the École Supérieure Internationale de Guerre (ESIG) in Yaoundé, Cameroon.

Guy Roland AMOIKON is a phD in Philosophy and a writer, a specialist of Ebénézer Njoh-Mouellé's African Philosophy, he has a solid knowledge of issues related to African development, culture, humanism, transhumanism, NBIC technologies and African politics. A committed intellectual, he shares his ideas during the workshops he initiates within the educational and cultural association AFRIKI-PAPYRUS, of which he is president since 2019. Guy Roland AMOIKON regularly participates in seminars, colloquiums and trainings related to the socio-economic and political development of Africa, inter-culturalism, international relations and pedagogy. A graduate of the University Alassane Ouattara (Bouaké-Côte d'Ivoire), Guy Roland AMOIKON is Ivorian and has written many books.

Ameth Diallo holds a PhD in English from Gaston Berger University where he lectures as an assistant while working on development projects implemented in the Saint-Louis area, in Senegal. His research includes African resistance to the global order, exploring alternatives relevant to progress on the continent using African literature and African thought produced by African writers and thinkers. In his research, built around postcolonial theory, he uses sociology, psychology and political science to deepen his analyses. Ameth Diallo has published several articles in journals such as the International Journal of Art Humanities and Social Sciences (IJAHSSS), the European Journal of Language and Culture Studies (EJ-LANG), and SAFARA (Journal of the Department of English at the Université Gaston Berger). He was a member of the 2016 cohort of the YALI program as a Mandela Washington Fellow at the University of Iowa.

Messanga Ebogo Paul Edouard holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Yaoundé II. He is a member of the Center for Research on Administrative and Political Dynamics (CERDAP) and an Associate Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Research Group in Political Science (GIRSP) in Cameroon. His focus lies in the realms of Public Administration and Policies, with his primary and most recent works delving into joint public action, governmental in the planning of territories in crisis, governance and collective security policies.

Nyaburi Nyadera teaches the Faculty of Arts and Social Science Egerton University and the School of International Relations and Diplomacy, Riara University. He is a Charles E. Scheidt Fellow for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, at the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Manson University and was awarded the Kautilya Fellowship in 2016. Nyadera holds a TA fellowship at the department of Government and Public Administration, University of Macau. He has been a visiting researcher at the department of Economics and Political Science, University of Milan under the European Union Erasmus + framework. He has co-authored several journal articles and book chapters.

Sidnoma Nita Belemsobgo is from Burkina Faso and holds a PhD in Public Law from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. She is an international environmental consultant and has worked for international institutions such as the World Health Organization, the Lake Chad Basin Commission, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the University of Trento (Italy), etc. She is also a correspondent for an environmental magazine called "Planète Verte Infos". She covers Nigeria and Burkina. Nita is a volunteer reviewer for Springer Nature, a German-British university publishing house. She is also a member of many associations such as the Environmental Law Commission of Burkina, the African Environmental Lawyers Network and the YALI Network. Naturally curious, she is particularly interested in environmental and human rights issues.