William Ehwarieme is Professor of Political Science and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Ajayi Crowther University, in Nigeria. He obtained his B.S. and M.S. in Political Science from the University of Nigeria, Nsuka, and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Ibadan. He served as Vice President of the African Studies and Research Forum in 2012-2014.

Nathaniel Umukoro is Professor of International Security, Peace Studies, and Conflict Resolution in the Department of Political Science, Western Delta University, Nigeria. He is currently Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Bayreuth, in Germany. He completed his Ph.D. in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Ibadan in 2015. He was a fellow of the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Unit of the Social Science Research Council, in New York. He has received additional training in Education in Emergencies (2017) and Peace Education and Transitional Justice (2015) from the Georg Eckert Institute, Germany; Development and Inequality in the Global South from Brown University, and Mixed-Method Research from the Partnership for African Social and Governance Research, in Nairobi, Kenya.