Greg Thomas is an associate professor of English and Black Studies at Tufts University. He authored the books The Sexual Demon of Colonial Power: Pan-African Embodiment and Erotic Schemes of Empire (2007) and Hip-Hop Revolution in the Flesh: Power, Knowledge, and Pleasure in Lil’ Kim’s Lyricism (2009). He is the curator of the traveling exhibition George Jackson in the Sun of Palestine (2015–ongoing).
Fatou Kandé Senghor is a visual artist, documentary filmmaker, and educator based in Dakar. Her short film Donner Naissance (“Giving Birth”), a profile of the enigmatic Senegalese sculptor Seni Camara, was featured in the 2015 Venice Biennale. In 2001 she founded Waru Studio, a platform for artistic research in Dakar. She is the author of Wala Bok: Une histoire orale du hip hop au Sénégal (2015), an anthology of Senegal’s global hip-hop movement.
Ivan C. Lopez is a visual artist working across painting, ceramics, music, and community building. In 2009 he founded Artillery A.G., a collaborative art gallery and studio space in San Francisco.
El Houma is an Algiers-based music collective. Coordinated by Diaz, a former member of the Algerian rap group MBS, it strives to showcase, translate and encourage the political actions and cultural creations of Algerian youth.
Djibril Dramé is a visual artist, curator, filmmaker, poet, lecturer, and independent scholar. He is the founder of DM Media, a communications agency based in Dakar. His work reflects Africa’s multifaceted history and intertwined cultures, languages, stories, and lifestyles.
Merine Hadj Abderrahmane is an artist and painter from Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria. He has taken part in several residencies including Citizen Platform (Oran, 2015), ARTifariti/Raconte’arts (Western Sahara, 2016), and Bodies in Movement (Algiers, 2019). A solo exhibition of his work, "La Main du Peuple," took place at Galerie Civ-oeil in Oran in 2018.
Nadjib Bouznad is an Algerian photographer based in Algiers. His work, which is situated midway between poetic realism and documentary observation, has been displayed extensively in Algeria and abroad.
LMNT (Element) is an urban writer born in Souk Ahras, Algeria, and a student of clinical psychology. Exploring issues of youth identity through graphic design, he began to get involved in the new Algerian artistic scene in 2011, aiming for a militant freedom of expression and a repossession of public space.
After studying in Algeria, Luc Chauvin obtained a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence. He is the cofounder of the publishing house Terrasses Éditions, which operates between Marseille and Algiers and focuses to radical poetry, literature, and political essays from the Mediterranean and beyond.
Kamel Badarneh, also known as 'Sawt', is a Palestinian electronic musician, sound technician, and producer based in Brussels. His music is a meeting point for techno and ambient, based on the transformation of raw everyday sounds. He has presented his work in different venues across Brussels including Barlok, C12, Ancienne Belgique, KVS, and Globe Aroma.