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Babacar FALL est directeur du Centre de recherche sur les métiers et la mémoire en Afrique, affilié à l’école doctorale « Etude sur l’Homme et la Société (ETHOS) » de l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Sénégal. Il a assuré plusieurs charges administratives dont celle de chef de département d’Histoire et de Géographie de la faculté des sciences et technologies de l’éducation et de la formation (FASTEF) de l’université de Dakar. Depuis 1984, il est titulaire d’un doctorat de 3^ème cycle en histoire de l’Université de Dakar. Après avoir été nommé en 2008 docteur Honoris Causa de l’université du Havre, il obtient en 2010 le titre de docteur en histoire (Ph.D) à l’université d’Amsterdam. Spécialiste de l’histoire du travail en Afrique de l’ouest francophone, il conduit ses recherches sur les migrations, les innovations pédagogiques et les réformes en éducation. Parallèlement à ses activités académiques, il est membre fondateur et coordonnateur du Groupe pour l’Etude et l’Enseignement de la Population (GEEP). Il s’agit d’une association professionnelle de recherche-action agréée comme organisation non-gouvernementale (ONG), qui intervient dans le domaine de l’éducation à la santé et du développement du leadership chez les jeunes. Enfin, il fut accueilli comme chercheur invité par le programme Fulbright, par le Savage Award de l’université de l’Orégon, par le Stanford Humanities Center et le Centre International de Recherche Re :Work de l’université Humbolt de Berlin.

Mohamed Saliou Camara is a professor of History, Philosophy, and Mass Communication and the current chair of the Department of African Studies at Howard University, Washington, DC. He received an MA and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University in History on a Fulbright Scholarship. He also holds a DES in Philosophy from the Gamal Abdel Nasser University of Conakry (Guinea), and an Advanced Professional Degree in Journalism from the University of Dakar (current Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal). Camara taught at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida where he also served as Director of the McNair Scholars Program, Speaker of the Faculty Senate, and Associate Vice President for Academics. Camara is the author of seven books, numerous peer-reviewed articles, and book chapters on African studies with a focus on political history; media, politics, and society; religion and philosophy; civil-military relations; human security; and intra-African foreign relations.

Megaptche Megaptche Yvan Rudhel is a Cameroonian Lecturer of Linguistics and Translation Studies at Hubei University of Automotive Technology, School of Foreign Languages. In 2016, he got his bachelor’s degree in trilingual (French-English-Chinese) studies applied to translation at the Higher Institute of Translation and Interpretation of Yaounde, Cameroon. In September 2016 he moved to China for his MTCSOL (Masters in teaching Chinese to speakers of other languages) at Southwest University, International College. In June 2022, he obtained his PhD in Translatology at the College of International Studies of Southwest University. Dr. Megaptche is equally author of several articles in the field of translation, a member of the African Association for Translation Studies, and a freelance translator. His research interests are (but not limited to) cognitive translation, cultural translation and translation pedagogy.

Benjamin Maiangwa holds a PhD in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Manitoba, Canada. He his the author of two books, “The Crisis of Belonging and Ethnographies of Peacebuilding in Kaduna State, Nigeria” (Lexington Books, 2021) and “The Paradox(es) of Diasporic Identity, Race and Belonging” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). He is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Lakehead University, Canada. He researches the contested notions of home, belonging, and how people experience conflict and peace in everyday life.

Chambi Chachage is an assistant professor at Howard University, where he teaches courses on ‘African Systems of Thought’ and ‘Introduction to Contemporary Africa’. He holds a PhD (African Studies) from Harvard University, MSc (African Studies) from the University of Edinburgh, BSocSci (Psychological Studies) and BA Honors (African Studies) from the University of Cape Town (UCT). He was a graduate exchange program student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (UMASS-Amherst) and International Scholar Research fellow at Stanford University. He has published in journals such as the Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE), Development, African Sociological Review, and Business History Review (BHR). With Annar Cassam, the former Assistant to the first President of Tanzania, he is the editor of Africa’s Liberation: The Legacy of Nyerere. His forthcoming book entitled Africanizing Capital: Emergence of Black Entrepreneurs in Eastern Africa is expected to be published in 2023/2024. He is also the founder of www.udadisi.com, a multimedia e-platform for critical views on African issues.