Lilian Thuram, born in Guadeloupe in 1972, had a prestigious international career in football for the French national team—World champion in 1998, European champion in 2000, World Cup finalist in 2006—and played for elite European clubs such as Juventus and Barcelona. In 2008, he created the Lilian Thuram Foundation to educate against racism, and he has become a high-profile activist himself. He is the author of various non-fiction books.

David Murphy is Head of School of Humanities at University of Strathclyde. He has published widely on various aspects of modern and contemporary Francophone West African culture and is currently writing a biography of the interwar Senegalese anti-colonial militant Lamine Senghor.
 
Aedín Ní Loingsigh is Lecturer in French at University of Stirling whose interests are centered on Sub-Saharan African literary cultures with a particular emphasis on postcolonial travel and translation practices and cultures.
 
Cristina Johnston is Senior Lecturer at University of Stirling and publishes books and papers on contemporary French cinema, transatlantic cinema and sexuality and citizenship in Republican France.