Willy Peter Nindorera is a Burundian researcher and independent consultant. His research for the last 20 years has been mainly focused on thematic areas like security sector reform, media, governance, human rights and conflict analysis. He has worked for or with the International Crisis Group; Centre d’Alerte et de Prévention des Conflits  (CENAP); the North-South Institute; Clingendael; the Nordic Africa Institute; the Institute for Security Studies; Berghof Foundation; the Rift Valley Institute; Levy Mwanawasa Regional Centre on Democracy and Good Governance; and Congo Research Group.

Assumpta Mugiraneza is a Rwandan author and researcher on subjects related to the genocide against the Tutsi. She is a co-founder and Director of IRIBA Center for Multimedia Heritage in Kigali, Rwanda. She has worked for 30 years on reconciliation, history and memory in Rwanda.

Michael J. Kavanagh is an American journalist who has reported on Central African politics and economics for more than two decades. Since 2009 he’s worked primarily for Bloomberg, covering daily news from the region and working on long-term investigations into financial malfeasance. He’s previously contributed to The Economist, the BBC, the New York Times, Slate, and numerous public radio and television shows in the United States.

Fred Bauma is the executive director of Ebuteli, a research institute based in Kinshasa working on conflict, governance and Congolese politics. He is also cofounder of AfriKKi, a network of social movements on Africa and a member of Lucha, a leading pro-democracy movement in the DRC. Fred is also a senior fellow at the Center on International Cooperation at New York University.

Moses Khisa is associate professor of political science at North Carolina State University, a Research Associate with the Centre for Basic Research in Kampala, Uganda and weekly columnist for Uganda’s Daily Monitor newspaper. He is the editor of Autocratization in Contemporary Uganda (Bloomsbury, 2025) and the author, with Rita Edozie, of  Africa’s New Global Politics (Lynne Rienner, 2022).