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defended his Ph.D. dissertation in 2022. Presently, he is a lecturer at the Department of History and International Studies, University of Ilorin. He focuses on Intergroup Relations. He has published articles in reputable journals, some of which are: The Factor of Trade in the Diplomatic Relations between the Nupe People and the Ilorin Emirate. Sejarah: Journal of the Department of History, University of Malaya 2/32, 107-120; Ilorin Emirate Scholars of Nupe Origin’s Role in The Educational Curriculum of The Emirate. Journal of Islamic Educational Research (JIER) 11/1, 1-10, e-ISSN: 0128-2069.
Contact: abdulrahman.as@unilorin.edu.ng

associate professor of history, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia; authored several journal articles and books on the modern history of Ethiopia. Few of his recent publications are: Dechasa Abebe. 2024. Rural Governance in Urban Space: A History of the City Management of Addis Ababa (1991-2005) in Ethiopian Journal of Development Research 46 (2), 113–138; 2023. Trends in Personal Names of Šäwan Royal Family from Nǝguś Śahlä Śǝllase to Nǝguśä Nägäst Ḫaylä Śǝllase I, c. 1810s-1970s in Journal of Ethiopian Studies 56 (2), 51-72; 2022. Kǝtät Awaj’s of Emperor Mǝnilǝk and Ḫailä Sǝlasse to counter the Italian Aggressions: A Comparative Text Analysis in Ethiopian Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanitie, 18 (2), 96-117; 2021. Backgrounds to the Socio-political pitfalls of Lij Iyasu (r. 1913- 1916) in The International Journal of Ethiopian Studies 15 (1), 81-99.
Contact: dechasa.abebe@aau.edu.et

holds a Master’s degree in Law (Mag. iur.) and a BA in History from the University of Vienna. During his studies, he worked as a student- and scientific project assistant at the Department of History and the Department of European, International and Comparative Law. Most recently, he served as a University Assistant (prae doc) at the Institute for the Internationalization of Law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, where he also began his doctoral studies in Business Law. His research focuses on the interplay between historical developments and (international) legal frameworks.
Contact: michael.bigl2000@gmail.com

accomplished German/Brazilian organist, pianist, and choir conductor. From 2022 to 2024, he served as a Kirchenmusiker in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony and Bavaria. Based in Germany since October 2013, Caitano has built a career as an independent musicologist. He was awarded a DAAD scholarship between 2014 and 2018 to pursue his doctorate at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Jörn Peter Hiekel. His research has been published in esteemed journals such as Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, Zeitschrift für die Musikforschung, Journal for Australian Studies, Journal Sounds of Music, ICTUS Journal Music, Journal Music Academy, MSGSÜ Sosyal Bilimler, NOVA Contemporary Music Journal, etc. Since 2014, Caitano has participated in international conferences and symposia, presenting on the Darmstädter Ferienkurse from intercultural and intercontinental perspectives with the assistance of Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt. On 1 December 2025, he will begin his DFG-funded postdoctoral project (independent position) entitled ‘The Reception of Johann Sebastian Bach in Southern and Southeastern Brazil’ at the University of Paderborn/Detmold.
Contact: joevan.caitano@yahoo.com.br

lectures in the Department of History, School of Basic Studies, University of Uyo, Nigeria. He holds a PhD in Military History with focus on Trench Warfare in the Nigerian Civil War. A recipient of the Society of History of Technology (SHOT) Global Community Scholarship, USA, he has also co-authored a book: As Bequeathed: HRM Udo Joe Ntuk Obom XII in the Service of His People (2024).
Contact: blessingjedet@uniuyo.edu.ng

has until recently (2022-25) been a postdoctoral researcher in the project “A Socialist Workplace in Postcolonial Africa: A Connected History of the Yugoslav Workforce in Zambia”, funded by the Austrian Science Fund, at the University of Vienna. In his PhD dissertation, which was awarded the Walter Markov Prize for Global History, he examined institutions, networks and mobilities of African trade unionists within the international labour movement. He is co-editor of the edited volume Navigating Socialist Encounters. Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War (de Gruyter, 2021) and has published several journal articles (e.g. International Labour and Working-Class History, International Journal of African Historical Studies) on East-South relations as well as global labour history with a focus on Africa. He is currently co-editing a special issue of the International Review of Social History focusing on the World Federation of Trade Unions and prominent African unionists who were part of this global trade union federation.
Contact: immanuel.harisch@univie.ac.at

senior lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Kifyasi specialises in medical history and is interested in global health, China’s aid to Africa, medical diplomacy, and Cold War politics. His recent publications include: “Angels of God”? A History of China’s Medical Assistance in Post-Colonial Tanzania (Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025) www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isbn/9783112206881/html; Andrea Azizi Kifyasi. “China, a Friend in Need”? Disentangling the Contexts of China’s Medical Assistance in Tanzania, 1961–1978,” European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health (2025): 1–241, 26, doi.org/10.1163/26667711-bja10056 ; Maxmillian Julius Chuhila and Andrea Azizi Kifyasi, “Green Imperialism: Cinchona and the Biomedical Campaigns in Colonial Tanganyika, ca.1900s,” International Journal of African Historical Studies 57, no. 2 (2024): 185-208; Andrea Azizi Kifyasi, “How Effective Was the Global South Knowledge Exchange? The Chinese-Funded Medical Projects in Tanzania, 1968–1990s.” Technology and Culture 65, no. 1 (2024): 39-61. doi.org/10.1353/tech.2024.a920515.
Contact: andreakifyasi@udsm.ac.tz/ andreakifyasi@yahoo.com

currently working on her Master’s thesis on Haitian language ideologies with the Department of International Development Studies at the University of Vienna. After a stint in development cooperations, she currently works in a shelter for homeless migrants and refugees. Her interests include intersections of sociolinguistics and human rights, as well as Magical Realism in African literature.
Contact: kea.klatt@gmx.de

postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Department of African Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria. She has worked on South African theater at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in South Africa and at Potsdam University in Germany. Elisabeth Knittelfelder holds a PhD in English and American Studies from the University of Graz, Austria, and is an awardee of the Marietta Blau Scholarship and the OeAW (Austrian Academy of Sciences) postdoctoral fellowship. Elisabeth’s work exists at the convergence of literary studies, cultural studies, and theatre studies and is informed by global feminism, decoloniality, and Black studies. Her current research explores the nexus of hydrocolonialism, environmental crisis, and climate justice in African literature and theatre.
Contact: elisabeth.knittelfelder@univie.ac.at

came to Namibia as a son of immigrants in 1967, where he joined SWAPO in 1974. He studied at the Freie Universität Berlin and obtained a PhD in Political Sciences (1980) and Sociology (Habilitation in Development Studies 1992) at the University of Bremen. He was Director of The Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit (NEPRU) in Windhoek (1992-2000), Research Director of the Nordic Africa Institute (2000-2006) and Director of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation (2006-2012), both in Uppsala/Sweden. As Associate and Director emeritus/Senior Advisor respectively he remains affiliated to both institutions. He is Extraordinary Professor at the Department of Political Sciences/University of Pretoria (since 2012) and at the Centre for Gender and Africa Studies/University of the Free State in Bloemfontein (since 2013), Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Commonwealth Studies at the University of London (since 2015), and was President of The European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) from 2017 to 2023. In 2018 he was ranked a B2 scholar (“considerable international recognition for the high quality and impact of his/her recent research outputs”) by the South African National Research Foundation (NRF).
Contact: Henning.Melber@nai.uu.se

lecturer at the Department of English at the College of Business and Social Sciences (CBSS), Adi-Keih, Eritrea. He earned his BA in Eritrean Languages and Literatures (CBSS) in Adi-Keih, Eritrea and his MA in English Literature at the Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India. His area of interests are: written and oral literature of East Africa; manuscript studies of Eritrea and Ethiopia.
Contact: mussietsehaye24@gmail.com

researcher and lecturer at the Research Platform for the Study of Transformations and Eastern Europe (University of Vienna). He is a social historian of labor in East-Central and Southeast Europe, approaching the field from a broader disciplinary background in Global History, Nationalism Studies and Political Economy. After earning a PhD degree in History and Civilization from the European University Institute, he held positions at the University of Graz and Central European University. He is the author of Making and Breaking the Yugoslav Working Class: A Story of Two Self-Managed Factories (CEU Press, 2021) which tells the story of industrial labor in socialist Yugoslavia. His current research project advances knowledge about Yugoslavia's 'socialist globalisation' through the example of Yugoslav companies in Zambia.
Contact: goran.music@univie.ac.at

graduate in history from Mulungushi University, Zambia. His research examined the history of the Kabwe lead mines and their impact on the socioeconomic development of Kabwe town between 1902 and 1994. During his undergraduate studies he taught history in a secondary school and served as an intern at the Lusaka National Museum and the Zambian Education Broadcasting Services. He has also worked as a learning support teacher at the American International school of Lusaka and worked as research assistance on two different projects the first been “A socialist workplace in Post-colonial Africa: A connected History of the Yugoslav workforce in Zambia” in 2023-24 and other “Extractive disruptions and the rise of disability movements” during 2025. He also participated in different conferences such as the inclusion conference program in Lusaka and the AfrikanistInnentag 2025 at the University of Vienna.
Contact: njovuteckson@gmail.com

bagged Ph.D. in 2022 at the University of Ilorin. He is currently a senior lecturer at the Department of History and International Studies, University of Ilorin. He teaches courses in African and Global History. He has published in reputable journals such as: Colonial Public Health Services in Ilorin Province, 1900 to 1960. West Bohemian Historical Review. Published by Department of Historical Sciences of the West Bohemia in Pilsen and Department of History of University in Hamburg, Czech Republic. Vol. XIII. Issue 2: 177-202. Available online at wbhr.cz index.php/issues. Diplomacy as a Veritable Tool of Sustainability in Multiracial Ilorin Emirate Polity of the 19th Century. Lapai Journal of Nigerian History. 15(1); 71-84. Published by Department of History and International Studies, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, Nigeria.
Contact: onagun.r@unilorin.edu.ng; onagun.rasheed@yahoo.com

is a Master’s student in History at the University of Zambia, Lusaka. Her academic background is in History, with a research focus on labour organisation and state institutions/ enterprises in postcolonial Africa. Her current thesis, “The United Bus Company of Zambia: A Window into Postcolonial State Enterprise and Public Service, 1970–1995,” examines how public transport contributed to national development and governance in Zambia. She also has a background in archival research and analysis and has worked on the project titled “A socialist workplace in Postcolonial Africa: A connected history of the Yugoslav Workforce in Zambia” during 2023-24.
Contact: joyphiri97@gmail.com