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Morten Jerven is the Chair of Africa and International Development at the Centre of African Studies at University of Edinburgh, and adjunct professor at Lund University and at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences.

Jane Hooper () is an associate professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University. Her first book, Feeding Globalization: Madagascar and the Provisioning Trade, 1600–1800, was published in the Indian Ocean studies series by Ohio University Press in 2017.

Sean Maliehe is a postdoctoral researcher in the Human Economy Programme (HE) at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He holds a PhD in History (Economic History, with specialization in business and entrepreneurship). He works on Lesotho’s economic history, and, on money and mobile phones in South Africa and Lesotho. His recent publications include: “An Obscured Narrative in the Political Economy of Colonial Commerce in Lesotho, 1870–1966”, Historia 59, no. 2 (2014): 28–45; “Survival in post-mining communities in southern Africa: women and entrepreneurship in Lesotho”, in T. Salverda, A. Hollington, S. Klob, N. Scheinder and O. Tappe (eds), Hope for the Future: Efforts and ideas to improve the current economic predicament (2016), ; “Money and Markets for and against the People: The Rise and Fall of Basotho’s Economic Independence, 1830s–1930s,” in Keith Hart (ed.), Money in a Human Economy [Oxford: Berghanhn Human Economy Series, forthcoming (in press)].

Kazuo Kobayashi is a postdoctoral fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and a visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo. He received his PhD degree in Economic History from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2016. He is studying Indian cotton textiles in precolonial West Africa and his particular areas of interest are the history of early modern globalization, West African economic history and the history of Indian cotton textiles.