Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, is Professor of History & Canada Research Chair in Pluralistic Societies: Epistemic Pluralism and Ecologies of Knowledges at the University of Calgary in Alberta in Canada. He previously worked as Professor (W3) and Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South at the University of Bayreuth in Bavaria in Germany.

Pedzisai Ruhanya (PhD) is a Senior Research Associate with the Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg's Communication and Media Department. He is a Lecturer with the University of Zimbabwe's Department of Creative Media and Communication. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Media and Communication Studies. He is a multidisciplinary academic with degrees in Sociology, Law, Media and Human Rights from Zimbabwe and the UK as well a fellowship from the USA's Universities of New York and Minnesota and Post-doctoral research fellow with the University of Johannesburg. Dr. Ruhanya is a Legal Practitioner, Conveyancer and Notary Public. He has over 40 publications in media, democracy, law, political transitions in securocratic and competitive authoritarian regimes. His research interests are on the role of dissidence media in democratic transitions in the age of social media and artificial intelligence.

Ezra Chitando, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Religion and Ethics at the University of Zimbabwe and Extraordinary Professor, Desmond Tutu Centre for Religion and Social Action, University of the Western Cape, South Africa.

Obert Bernard Mlambo is a former Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung and the Global South Studies Center of the University of Cologne, Germany. Currently based at Rhodes University, his research and teaching include Greek and Latin textual studies on the themes of violence and civil war; Roman history; Contemporary Classics, including the application to Classics of the theory of Dromology; Global Classics; Critical Antiquities; Applied Concepts of Civilization; Colonial and Postcolonial Classics; and Comparative Classics on Land, involving inter alia the interpretation of history, politics and society in the context of theories of Dromology and Empire. Obert also specializes in multidisciplinary approaches that relate the critical study of antiquity to contemporary African Classics. Obert is the author of Land Expropriation in Ancient Rome and Contemporary Zimbabwe: Veterans, Masculinity and War (2022). His forthcoming book is entitled: What Kind of Classics? Coloniality, Power and the Global Order of Knowledge.