Ana Mafalda Leite is Associate Professor at the University of Lisbon. Her areas of research include Mozambican literature, African cultures and literatures in the Portuguese language, oral literature and postcolonial studies. Her publications include Oralidades & Escritas Pós-Coloniais (2012).

Jessica Falconi is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for the Study of Africa, Asia and Latin America at the University of Lisbon. Her publications include Utopia e conflittualità. Ilha de Moçambique nella poesia mozambicana contemporanea (2008).

Kamila Krakowska is Assistant Professor at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, where she teaches International and African Studies. Her PhD thesis on travel in the novels of Mário de Andrade and Mia Couto was awarded the prestigious Fernão Mendes Pinto prize.

Sheila Khan is a researcher at the Center for Communication and Society Studies (CECS) at the University of Minho. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher on the project funded by the European Research Council, EXCHANGE. Her publications includes (with Nazir Can and Helena Machado, eds), Racism and Racial Surveillance: Modernity Matters (2020).

Carmen Tindó Secco is Professor of African Literatures in the Portuguese Language at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Her publications include A magia das letras africanas (2003), Brasil/África: como se o mar fosse mentira (2003) and África & Brasil – letras em laços (2010).