Tobias Hagmann, University of California at Berkeley, USA Martin Doevenspeck, University of Bayreuth, Germany Sylvia Brown, Assistant Professor, Denison University, USA Gillian Mathys, Graduate Student, University of Ghent, Belgium Christine Bichsel, Senior Researcher, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Bert Suykens, Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Ghent, Belgium Wolfgang Zeller, African Borderlands Research Network, University of Edinburgh, UK Aboubakr Tandia, University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar, Senegal Jonathan Goodhand, Professor, Department of Development Studies, SOAS