Njoki Wane, PhD, is a Professor and current Chair of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, Canada. She is a recognized scholar in the areas of Black feminisms in Canada and Africa, African indigenous knowledges, African women and spirituality. Her recent publications include Indigenous African Knowledge Production: Food Processing Practices Among Kenyan Rural Women; Equity in Practice: Transformational Training Resource (with Larissa Cairncross); and A Handbook on African Traditional Healing Approaches and Research Practices (with Erica Neeganagwedin). She has also co-edited Spirituality, Education and Society: An Integrated Approach (with Energy Manyimo and Eric Ritskes) and The Politics of Cultural Knowledge (with Arlo Kempf and Marlon Simmons). She is the recipient of the Harry Jerome Professional Excellence Award in 2008 and the African Women Achievement Award in 2007.

Francis Akena Adyanga, PhD, is the Head of the Foundations of Education Department at Kabale University, Uganda. He received his PhD from the University of Toronto in 2014, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the College of Education of the University of South Africa (UNISA) Pretoria in 2016. His research focuses on African indigenous science, indigenous knowledge, social and environmental justice education, and global citizenship education, among others. His recent publications include Researching Indigenous Science Knowledge Integration in Formal Education: Interpreting some Perspectives from the Field (2017); Spiritual Discourse in the Academy: A Globalised Indigenous Perspective (edited with Wane and Ilmi, 2014); Traditional Knowledge in HIV/AIDS Treatment and Prevention Programs in Northern Uganda (2016), among others.