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Paul Ocobock () is an assistant professor of African History at the University of Notre Dame. His forthcoming book, An Uncertain Age: The Politics of Manhood in Kenya, published with Ohio University Press, examines the power of age and masculinity in the everyday lives of African young men and the crafting of the state in Kenya in the twentieth century.

*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.