Lonzen Rugira
Dr Lonzen Rugira is a Rwandan independent consultant in applied policy research and a public affairs commentator. He is a former academic at Howard University and at the University of Rwanda
Chika Esiobu
Dr Chika Esiobu is a writer currently based in Los Angeles, California. She is the author of Indigenous Knowledge and Education in Africa (Springer: 2019). Her blog is www.chikaforafrica.com
Lionel Manzi
Lionel Manzi is a Burundian national and a political provocateur at the Pan African Review.
Frederick Golooba-Mutebi
Dr Frederick Golooba-Mutebi is an independent researcher. He is a former executive director of Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) and has been attached to the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa. Golooba has a double nationality, Ugandan and Rwandan.
Bernard Sabiti
Bernard Sabiti is a Ugandan researcher and public policy analyst. He can be reached at: bernardsabiti@gmail.com
Olivier Mushimire
Olivier Mushimire is a lecturer at the Kigali Independent University school of law. A passionate advocate of human rights and justice for genocide survivors for about a decade – writing principally about EAC legal system, genocide denial and criminal justice. Olivier is also a Rwandan civil servant who reflects on the transformation of Rwanda as a chapter of the African revolution.
Alphonse Muleefu
Dr. Alphonse Muleefu is a Senior Lecturer – UR School of Law and author of The Independence of the International Criminal Court: Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Intersentia, 2019). He is a Rwandan national.
Ndayisaba Gateka
Dr Ndayisaba Gateka is a Burundian healthcare specialist and an independent analyst on African affairs. He mainly tackles matters of health, economics, and religion in Africa. He can be reached at ndayisabadorel@gmail.com.
Emmanuel Matambo
Dr Emmanuel Matambo is a Senior Researcher at the University of Johannesburg’s Centre for Africa-China Studies
Twitter @EKMatambo
Kingsley Ugwuanyi
Dr Kingsley Ugwuanyi is the copy editor for Pan African Review. He holds a PhD in English and is an academic of Linguistics at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK and at University of Nigeria, Nsukka Enugu State, Nigeria. He is a Nigerian. Email: kingsley.ugwuanyi@northumbria.ac.uk
Moses Khisa
Dr Moses Khisa is Assistant Professor of Political Science in the School of Public & International Affairs at North Carolina State University. His research and teaching interests include the political economy of development, politics of institutional change, civil-military relations, among others.
Chikodiri Nwangwu
Dr Chikodiri Nwangwu is a Nigerian political scientist and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Africa-China Studies, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His research and teaching interests focus on SDG #16. He is a member of several research networks, including CORN West Africa.
Email: kodiri.nwangwu@gmail.com
Levi Kabwato
Levi Kabwato is a Malawian journalist
Stephen Phiri
Dr Stephen Phiri is a post-doctoral fellow with the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS), University of Johannesburg, specialising in Africa and the post-colonial state. He is an alumnus of the NIHSS-CODESRIA Doctoral Fellowship.
Daniel Ugwu
Dr. Daniel Onyedikachi Ugwu is a lecturer, researcher, and advocate of environmental sustainability and good governance. He is a Nigerian.
Joachim Buwembo
Joachim Buwembo is a social and political commentator based in Kampala. For over three decades, he has edited national newspapers in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. He now conducts mentorship programmes in Health, Environment/Climate Change and Development Journalism.
Yusuf Serunkuma
Yusuf Serunkuma is a scholar based at Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) at Makerere University in Kampala. He is the author of the recently published book, Non-Essential Humans: Essays on Governance, Ruin and Survival in Covid-19 Uganda (2022)
Nduka Orjinmo
Nduka Orjinmo is a Nigerian journalist, writer and photographer based in Abuja.