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Hector Guerra Hernandez () has been a Professor of African History at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) since August 2012. He earned his PhD in Social Anthropology in 2011 from the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), after earning a Master’s degree in Cultural Anthropology, Contemporary History and Sociology at the Latin American Institute of the Free University of Berlin in Germany in 2005. He has experience in the fields of Anthropology, Sociology and History, and conducts research into postcolonialism, postsocialism, ideology and culture, international migration and social conflicts. He spent many years conducting research into Latin American migration and social conflict in European contexts, before taking up his current research projects into the history and politics of southern Africa, with a particular focus on Mozambique.

*Mariana L. R. Dantas is an associate professor of history at Ohio University. Her research focuses on the history of African slavery in the Atlantic World. She is the author of Black Townsmen: Urban Slavery and Freedom in the Eighteenth-Century Americas (Palgrave, 2008). She has published chapters in various collected volumes and articles in the Journal of Family History, the Colonial Latin American Historical Review, and the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History.

*Mariana P. Candido is an associate professor of history at the University of Notre Dame. Candido’s research focuses on the history of West Central Africa, migration, identity formation, slavery, and gender. Her publications include Fronteras de Esclavización: Esclavitud, Comercio e Identidad en Benguela, 1780–1850 (Mexico: Colegio de Mexico Press, 2011); An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World: Benguela and its Hinterland (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013); Crossing Memories: Slavery and African Diaspora, with Ana Lucia Araujo and Paul Lovejoy (Africa World Press, 2011); and articles in History in Africa, Slavery and Abolition, Social Sciences and Missions, Portuguese Studies Review, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Luso-Brazilian Review, Afro-Ásia, Cahiers des Anneux de la Mémoire, and Brésil (s). Sciences Humaines et Sociales.

*Carmeliza Soares da Costa Rosário is currently a social anthropology doctoral candidate at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, Norway. Her research is on memory of women of power and authority in Zambezi, Mozambique. She has a Master of Philosophy in Development Anthropology from the same university. Her research region is Mozambique and her main areas of interest are women, power, memory and identity.