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Kwabena Akurang-Parry teaches in the Department of History & Philosophy, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, Pennsylvanie. Formerly, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor in African history at Tulane University, New Orleans. He holds a Ph.D. in African history from York University, Toronto, Canada.  He has contributed chapters to books on African history and has published articles in learned journals. Some of his forthcoming articles will appear in The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana, and Historich Tijdschrift Groniek. Akurang-Parry is also a published poet.

Baldwin Chika Anyasodo is Principal Lecturer in the Arts Department, Alvan Ikoku College of Education, Owerri, Nigeria. An accomplished artist, he has written and illustrated several books, and three of his plays have been broadcast on television. He is a member of UNESCO International Association of the Arts and is on the national committee of the Nigerian Society of the Arts.

Thierno M. Bah, a native of Guinea, studied at Dakar University and received his Ph.D. at the Sorbonne in Paris. He is a Professor of History at the University of Yaoundé, Cameroon. Prof. Bah is an expert in the military history of Africa, and was the editor of the pan African historical journal Afrika Zamani from 1972 to 1995. He has published numerous articles and contributions on pre-colonial African history with a focus on the military dimension and the foundation of a peace culture. He is a consultant for UNESCO.

Carolyn Brown is an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers, the State University of New jersey and a specialist in West African labor history and the connections between wage labor and slavery under colonialism. She is currently directing a videotaped oral history project in southeastern Nigeria on the memory of the Atlantic and internal slave trade. Her book ‘We Were All Slaves’: African Miners, Culture and Resistance at the Enugu Government Colliery, Nigeria 1914-1950 is forthcoming in the Heinemann’s Social History of Africa Series. She is now working on a social history of Enugu during the nationalist period.

Dennis Cordell is Professor of History and Associate Dean for General Education at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. He is the author of Dar al-Kuti and the Last Years of the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade (1985); co-editor with the late Joel W. Gregory of African Population and Capitalism: Historical Perspectives (1987 and 1994); and co-author with Victor Piché and Joel Gregory of Hoe and Wage: A Social History of a Circular Migration System in West Africa (1996.) He is now working on a study of social reproduction and the Saharan slave trade and a history of African population.

José C. Curto is Sessional Assistant Professor of African History at York University, Toronto, Canada. His area of research is Angola and includes studies in the alcohol-slave trades, historical demography, and slavery. He has published papers in International Journal of African Historical Studies, Annales de démographie historique, Africa, African Economic History, Revista Internacional de Estudos Africanos, and History in Africa. Having recently completed a study on the alcohol-slave trades at Luanda and its hinterland, he is now preparing, with Susan Herlin, the 3rd edition of the Historical Dictionary of Angola for Scarecrow Press.

Sylviane A. Diouf is Research Associate at Rutgers University. She is the author of Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas (NYU Press 1998), named an Outstanding Academic Book of 1999 by Choice Magazine. She has published several articles and book chapters on the African Diaspora, West African Muslims, and migrations. She is an on-camera expert for This Far by Faith, a PBS-TV series, and has edited a collection of essays on immigrants in America. She is the author of four books on African kings and queens (2000), of Growing Up in Slavery (2001), and Bintou’s Braids (2001).

Adama Guèye is a History doctoral student at Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal. She specializes in medieval history. She has studied the impact of the slave trade on Cayor and Baol for her Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies, and her dissertation will extend her research to the entire Wolof and Serer areas.

Ibrahim Hamza obtained degrees in African History from Usmanu Dan Fodiyo University in Sokoto, Nigeria. He did field research on Hausa oral history at Bayreuth University, Germany, and on Hausa land tenure. He is currently a Research Assistant at York/UNESCO Nigerian Hinterland Project, and a Ph.D. candidate at York University, Toronto, Canada.

Walter Hawthorne received a Ph.D. in African history at Stanford University in 1998. On a Fulbright Fellowship, he conducted research among the Balanta and other stateless societies in Guinea-Bissau. Currently an Assistant Professor at Ohio University, he is working on a book titled Embattled Anarchies: The Slave Trade and the Upper Guinea Coast’s Stateless Societies, 1450-1900, which will be published in the Heinemann Social History of Africa Series.

Joseph Inikori is Professor of History and African and African-American Studies, and Associate Director of the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies at the University of Rochester. His research and teaching center on the evolution of the world economic order from the 16^th century onward. He has published many articles on the slave trade in various journals and anthologies, and is the author of The Chaining of a Continent: Export Demand for Captives and the History of Africa South of the Sahara, 1450-1870 (University of the West Indies) and The Atlantic Slave Trade (Duke University Press.)

Sylvie Kandé teaches French and Francophone Literatures at New York University. She is the author of a study of Creole culture in Freetown, Terres, urbanisme et architecture "créoles" en Sierra Leone XVIIIe-XIXe siècles (1998); and has edited Discours sur le métissage, identités métisses. En quête d’Ariel (1999.) She has published articles, poems, and short stories, and a piece of poetic prose, Lagon, Lagunes (2000.) She is currently co-editing a book on the Haitian Revolution, and is working on Black, White and Tan Fantasy: Fictions of metissage in Francophone Literature, a book of literary criticism.

Martin A. Klein has done extensive research on the history of slavery in West Africa. Among other books, he is the author of Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa and the editor of Breaking the Chains: Slavery, Bondage and Emancipation in Modern Africa and Asia, and with Claire Robertson, of Women and Slavery in Africa. He is recently retired from teaching at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Paul E. Lovejoy is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of History, York University, Toronto, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He has published over 15 books and 60 papers and articles on African economic history, slavery, the slave trade, and the African Diaspora. He is currently Director of the York/UNESCO Nigerian Hinterland Project and recently was awarded a Canada Research Chair, with a focus on African Diaspora Studies.

Djibril Tamsir Niane is a renowned oral historian and writer who has conducted seminal research on the history of the Malian Empire in the Middle Ages. An expert on the history and culture of Mande, he is Professor at the University of Conakry, and Director of the UNESCO Slave Route Project in Guinea. His works include Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali (Heinemann), Histoire des Mandingues de l’Ouest (Karthala, 1989) and several journal articles.

Ndu Life Njoku is Lecturer and Head of the History and International Studies Department at Imo State University, Owerri, Nigeria. He received his Ph.D. in African History at the University of Calabar. He is the co-author of Africa : Making Whole Again (1996), the author of Studies in Imperialism and African Development (1998), and the editor of Slavery and Slave Trade in Igboland (2001). His latest article, on slave historiography, was published recently by Nigeria’s Journal of Humanities. He is on the editorial board of several journals.

Olatunji Ojo is a History doctoral student at York University, in Toronto, Canada. A native of Nigeria where he attended the University of Ibadan, he has carried out extensive research in the life histories of Yoruba women and descendants of slaves and slave families in Ekiti and Ondo. His publications include six entries in the Encyclopedia of Sub-Saharan Africa, while six other articles on women, slaves, and socio-economic change in Yorubaland are forthcoming

John Oriji received his Ph.D. in African History at Rutgers University. He has taught in both Nigerian and American universities, and is currently Professor of African History at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He has authored two books in African history and 25 journal articles.

Ismail Rashid, a Sierra Leonean, is an Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies at Vassar College. He received his Ph.D. at McGill University, Montreal, Canada.  His research includes slave resistance, rural protests and anti-colonialism in Sierra Leone, and contemporary conflicts in West Africa. He has recently published "Do Dadi nor make dem Carry me: Slavery and Resistance in Sierra Leone" in Slavery and Colonial Rule (1998), and "Escape, Revolt and Marronage in 18th and 19th  Century Sierra Leone Hinterland", in the Canada Journal of African Studies (2000.)

David Richardson is Professor of Economic History and Deputy Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Hull, United Kingdom. He has published a four volume series on Bristol and the African slave trade, and is co-editor of the recently published CD-Rom on the Atlantic Slave Trade (Cambridge, 1999.) He is currently working on studies of the British slave trade, shipboard revolts (with David Eltis and Stephen Behrendt), and the slave trade and the history of the Bight of Biafra (with Paul Lovejoy.)

Elisée Soumonni is Assistant Professor of History at Université Nationale du Bénin, Cotonou, Benin. He is a member of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Slave Route Project, and a former Fulbright Research Scholar at Emory University, Atlanta. He has published several papers on the slave trade, including The Historiography of Dahomean Yorubaland (University of Wisconsin, 1991), The Compatibility of the Slave and Palm Oil Trades in Dahomey, (Cambridge 1995), and

The Administration of a Port of the Slave trade: Ouidah in the 19^th Century (Stirling, 1999.)