William Miles is Professor of Political Science and the former Stotsky Professor of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies at Northeastern University in Boston. He is the author of Jews of Nigeria: An Afro-Judaic Odyssey; Afro-Jewish Encounters from Timbuktu to the Indian Ocean and Beyond; and Zion in the Desert.

Tudor Parfitt is Distinguished Professor in the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs at Florida International University.  He has presented seven documentaries and authored or edited 26 books of which the most recent is Memory and Ethnicity: Ethnic Museums in Israel and the Diaspora (edited with D. Miccolli and E. Trevisan-Semi.)

Daniel Lis is a Swiss-Israeli social anthropologist and historian of Judaic studies. He is a recent research fellow at the Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Basel and the Abraham Centre for International and Regional Relations at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of Jewish Identity among the Igbo of Nigeria.