Paul M.W. Hackett has wide experience in social science and humanities research and is the originator of the declarative mapping approach to qualitative research. His research interests span many aspects of behaviour and experience focusing upon the investigation of ontologies and epistemologies that have originated in the African continent.

Husein Inusah is a Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Classics and Philosophy at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He earned his PhD from the University of Ghana in 2014 and received the 2015/16 University of Ghana Vice-Chancellor's Award for the Most Outstanding PhD Dissertation in the Humanities Category.

Ava Gordley-Smith is a PhD candidate at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. Outside of her PhD research, Gordley-Smith focuses more broadly on both theoretical and applied methodologies in the social sciences, creative disciplines and communication studies.

Mirian Ngozi Alike, PhD, is a lecturer in the Philosophy Department at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria and Fellow of the Ife Institute of Advanced Studies. Her areas of expertise include metaphysics and African philosophy, with a special interest in cultural studies and artificial intelligence. Currently, she is researching on gender issues, sustainable pre-colonial religious beliefs and racism against Africans.