Frieda Ekotto is a Francophone African woman novelist and literary critic. She is Lorna Goodison Collegiate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Comparative Literature, and Francophone Studies of AfroAmerican and African Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. She is best known for her novels, which focus on gender and sexuality in Sub-Saharan Africa, and her work on the writer Jean Genet, particularly her political analysis of his prison writing, and his impact as a race theorist in the Francophone world. Her research and teaching focus on literature, film, race, and law in the Francophone world, spanning France, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Maghreb.

Lewis Ricardo Gordon is an American philosopher at the University of Connecticut who works in the areas of Africana philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology, social and political theory, postcolonial thought, theories of race and racism, philosophies of liberation, aesthetics, philosophy of education, and philosophy of religion. He has written particularly extensively on Africana and black existentialism, postcolonial phenomenology, race and racism, and on the works and thought of W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon. His most recent book is titled: What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction To His Life And Thought.