Souleymane 
Bachir Diagne is a professor in the departments of French and of Philosophy and the Director of the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University. His areas of research and publication include History of Philosophy, History of Logic and Mathematics, Islamic Philosophy, African Philosophy and Literature. His latest publications in English include: The Ink of the Scholars. Reflections on Philosophy in Africa, Dakar, Codesria, 2016 ; Open to Reason. Muslim philosophers in conversation with Western tradition, New York, Columbia University Press, 2018 ; Postcolonial Bergson, Fordham University Press, New York, 2019 ; In Search of Africa(s). Universalism and Decolonial Thought, (Dialogue with Jean-Loup Amselle), Polity Press, 2020.
Paulin J. Hountondji is Emeritus Professor of philosophy at the national universities of Benin, Cotonou. Publications include: African Philosophy, Myth and Reality (Indiana University Press, 1997; first published in French, 1977); Endogenous Knowledge: Research Trails (ed.) (Dakar, Codesria 1997; French original: 1994, 2 nd edition 2019); The Struggle for Meaning: Reflections on Philosophy, Culture and Democracy in Africa (Ohio University Press, 2002; original French: 1997); La rationalité, une ou plurielle? (ed.) (Dakar, Codesria, 2007); L’ancien et le nouveau: la production du savoir dans l’Afrique d’aujourd’hui (ed.), Porto-Novo, Benin, 2009 ; published in Luanda in Portuguese translation in 2012), and other books and articles mainly in French. Hountondji was Vice-President of the Paris-based International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies (CIPSH) from 1998 to 2002, Vice-President of the Dakar-based Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) from 2002 to 2005 and is one of the 25 founding members of the Benin National Academy of Science and Arts (since 2012). He was Minister of Education, then Minister for Culture and Communication in Benin (from 1990 to 1993), President of the National Council for Education (from 2009 to March 2019). Since 2016 he represents Benin at the Permanent Council of the Francophone Summit.
Nadia Yala Kisukidi is Associate Professor in Philosophy at Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis University, and Adjunct Director of the research center « Les logiques contemporaines de la philosophie » (LLCP). She is currently serving as a co-curator of the Yango II Biennale, Kinshasa / RDC (2021). She was vice-president of the Collège International de Philosophie (2014-2016) and member of the Critical Times (Duke University) and Les Cahiers d’études africaines (CNRS, Ehess) editorial committee. Kisukidi specializes in French and Africana philosophy. She has taught in Switzerland and France, and contributed to the creation of a « Global South » research network between Haïti, France and Colombia. She has numerous publications, both individual and co-authored, in philosophy.