Gernot Klantschnig is an Assistant Professor in International Studies at the University of Nottingham campus in Ningbo, China. He is the author of Crime, Drugs and the State in Africa: the Nigerian Connection (2012).
Neil Carrier is a Research Fellow at the African Studies Centre, University of Oxford, UK. He has published widely on khat and psychoactive substances in East Africa, and he is the author of Kenyan Khat: The Social Life of a Stimulant (2007).
Charles Ambler is a Professor of History at the University of Texas, El Paso, USA. He is a former president of the African Studies Association of the USA and has published widely on alcohol, leisure, and the media in South and West Africa.