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Fridah Gatwiri Kiambati, African Population and Health Research Center

Jabulani Sikhakhane, The Conversation

Jacopo Gnisci, UCL

Alemayehu Fentaw Weldemariam, Indiana University

Djibril Diouf, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar and Amadou Moctar Ndiouck, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar

Gabriel Kanuti Ndimbo, University of Dar es Salaam and Chakupewa Joseph Mpambije, University of Dar es Salaam

Neo Mathinya, University of the Free State and Linus Franke, University of the Free State

Kylie Thomas, University College Cork

Kevin Mudavadi, Georgia State University; Bingbing Zhang, University of Iowa; Gregory Gondwe, University of Alabama; California State University, San Bernardino; Harvard University, and Shitemi Khamadi, Indiana University

Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago and Tamma Carleton, University of California, Berkeley

Daniel Waktola, Austin Community College

Garhe Osiebe, Rhodes University

Yolandi Burger, Gauteng City-Region Observatory

Joana Castro Pereira, Universidade do Porto and Simón Pardo de Donlebún Versaci, Universidade do Porto

Charles Shey Wiysonge, Stellenbosch University; South African Medical Research Council

Damilola Peter Olatade, Lagos State University

Katongo Seyuba, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and Gracsious Maviza, CGIAR

Julius Maina, The Conversation and Kagure Gacheche, The Conversation

Siyabulela Christopher Fobosi, University of Fort Hare

Nisar Majid, London School of Economics and Political Science

Brianna Castro, Yale University

Deevia Bhana, University of KwaZulu-Natal

Burak Şakir Şeker, Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University

Rehana Cassim, University of South Africa

Simon Adams, Murdoch University

Zoe Groves, University of Leicester; Anusa Daimon; Henry Dee, and Julie Weise, University of Oregon

Anneleen van der Meer, Leiden University

John Mukum Mbaku, Weber State University

John (Eddie) La Marca, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research) and Sarah Diepstraten, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)

Chris Ogden, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau

Suleman Lazarus, London School of Economics and Political Science

Tamsin Bradley, University of Portsmouth

Jonathan Munemo, Salisbury University

Malizgani Paul Chavula, University of Zambia and Cosmas Zyambo, University of Zambia

Davies Tsikayi, University of the Witwatersrand

Lars Buur, Roskilde University

Danny Bradlow, University of Pretoria; Ana Saggioro Garcia, PUC-Rio; Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ); Kennedy Mbeva, University of Cambridge, and Sandy Africa, University of Pretoria

Glen Nwaila, University of the Witwatersrand and Grant Bybee

Danny Bradlow, University of Pretoria

Danny Bradlow, University of Pretoria

Sheila Petty, University of Regina

Karin Barber, University of Birmingham

Maurizio Esposito La Rossa, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)

Mathew Tembo, Copperbelt University

Grace Khunou, University of South Africa

Christian Ungruhe, University of Passau

Mahfoud Amara, Qatar University

Cathy Wilcock, University of Manchester

Ashadee Kay Miller, University of the Witwatersrand

Junior Amboko, Florida Atlantic University and Kate Detwiler, Florida Atlantic University

Markus Engstler, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg and Daniel Masiga, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology

Robyn Tyler, University of the Western Cape

Itamar Shatz, University of Cambridge

Lewis C. E. Mason, Kingston University

Ahmed Elbediwy, Kingston University and Nadine Wehida, Kingston University

Hoani Smith, Lincoln University, New Zealand and Conrad Goodhew, University of Canterbury

Salah Ben Hammou, Rice University

Sougueh Cheik, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)

Yap Boum, Mbarara University of Science and Technology and Marie Roseline Belizaire, Universidad de Alcalá

Thierry Vircoulon, Université Paris Cité