Robert O. Collins, is Professor of History, Emeritus, at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB).  Educated at Dartmouth College, Balliol College, Oxford, and Yale University he has taught at Williams College, Columbia University, and UCSB for forty years where he served as Dean of the Graduate School (1970-1980) and Director of the UCSB Center in Washington D.C. (1992-1994). He has lectured in numerous American, European, Middle Eastern, and African universities and been a consultant to the Sudan Government, the High Executive Council of the Southern Sudan Regional Government, 1975-1983, and Chevron Overseas Petroleum Inc., 1981-1991.  

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Dr Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem is General_secretary of the Global Pan African Movement since 1994, based in Kampala, Uganda and also Director of Justice Africa, based in London. Tajudeen is Nigerian by origin and is resident in Uganda and London. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford where he gained his DPhil in political science. He was a founder member of the Africa Resource and Information Bureau, London, and has been at the centre of numerous initiatives to promote peace and democracy in Africa. Tajudeen writes and lectures on Africa for several journals and universities. He is Chairperson of the Centre for Democratic Development and the Pan African Development Education and Advocacy Programme.

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