Aliocha Imhoff and Kantuta Quirós are art theorists, curators and founders of the curatorial platform Le peuple qui manque [A People is Missing].

Poet, essayist and photographer Pierre Amrouche is a specialist in African art and tribal arts as well as an expert in public art sales. Member of a Berber family from Kabylia, he is also very involved in Kabyle culture.

Kemi Bassene is a photographer, musicologist and cultural critic who explores fragments of African cultures to identify intersections with cultures outside Africa and ways Africans are viewed internationally.

Nadine Bilong is a curator and arts professional who focuses on performance art.

Seloua Luste Boulbina is a philosopher and theorist of decolonisation who is interested in the political, intellectual and artistic dimensions of colonialism and postcolonialism.

Through their work as co-directors of DAAR, architects Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti combine conceptual speculations and architectural interventions to subvert, reuse, profane and recycle the existing infrastructure of colonial occupation.

Malik Diouf is an academic and researcher specialising in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Haidar El Ali is an ecologist, documentary filmmaker and Senegalese government minister.

Papa Demba Fall is a researcher whose interests centre on African, and particularly Senegalese, migrations.

Charles Heller is a filmmaker and researcher whose work has a long-standing focus on the politics of migration and aesthetic practice within and at the borders of Europe.

A lifelong political activist, Rachida Madani is a poet, novelist and painter.

Curator and writer, Zeynep Öz was the co-founder and director of the Spot Production Fund, Istanbul (2011–2017)

Lorenzo Pezzani is an architect and researcher whose work deals with the spatial politics and visual cultures of migration, with a particular focus on the geography of the ocean.