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Hanno Brankamp is a Lecturer in Critical Global Geographies at the University of Glasgow. His research examines migration, borders, citizenship, displacement, humanitarianism, art and activism, de/coloniality, policing, carcerality, and abolitionism with a particular focus on East Africa. He is author of the book Occupied Refuge: Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya (2026) recently published with Duke University Press. His work has been published in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, Political Geography, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Geoforum, Area, Population, Space and Place, Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, Journal of Eastern African Studies, Migration and Society, and Forced Migration Review. His public-facing scholarship has appeared in The Guardian, Africa Is A Country, OpenDemocracy, and African Arguments, among other outlets.

Ukombozi Social is a creative collective founded in 2025 by two emerging creative practitioners following their transition from practicing law into the arts. ‘Ukombozi’ (Swahili for liberation) was co-created by Muthoni Matu (Sukuma Wiki), a sonic curator and visual artist, and Chepkoech Rotich (Mtazamaaji), a gallerist and curator. Asreflected in the collective’s name, the duo is driven by a decolonial-feminist ethos and seeks to reimagine alternative African futures by decentering colonial epistemologies and aesthetics, reconnecting with marginalised artistic traditions on the continent, and co-producing knowledge with the aim of contributing to liberatory social change.

Reggemore Marongedze is an interdisciplinary conceptual engineer, Digital Humanist, literary critic, linguist and AI specialist. He is a research fellow in the Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at Nelson Mandela University and a research affiliate in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow. He also serves as a Digital Humanities lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe, where he designed an MA in Digital Humanities in the Department of History, Heritage and Knowledge Systems. He is an e-lexicography fellow at the Living Tongue Institute of Endangered Languages in the United States.

Marion Chirwa Kajombo is a sociolinguist and a lecturer at the Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST). Her work sits at the intersection of language, health, climate, and society. She is the Vice Board Chairperson of the Malawi-based Centre for Civil Society Strengthening, which encourages citizen participation and promotes positive working relationships among civil societies. Marion is a 2024 recipient of Pan-African Learning and Growth Network Education Award for her girls' education activism. As a sociolinguist, she understands that language dynamics depict implicit society’s collective agenda, which may either converge or diverge with established norms and belief systems.

Farai Chipato is a Lecturer in Black Geographies at the University of Glasgow. His primary research interests are in African politics, international interventions, Black political thought and the Anthropocene. He works with these themes at three different geographic scales, moving from a local politics to more abstract theoretical concerns at a planetary level. The first concerns international interventions in Africa to promote democracy and human rights, and their relationship to African NGOs. The second moves up a scale, to consider the nature and future of African governance at a continental level, and its relationship to conceptions of African identity, particularly Pan-Africanism and Afropolitanism. The third strand is the most theoretical, focusing on Black and African political thought and its relationship to the crisis of global modernity and the Anthropocene.

Deborah Dixon is Professor of Geography at the University of Glasgow. She is key to the emergence of ‘geohumanities’ as an inter-disciplinary field of research and practice. She is the co-founder of the inter-disciplinary journal GeoHumanities, which publishes analytic and creative and arts practice-based research. She has researched aesthetic, technological, political, and cultural responses to environmental problematics (including toxic landscapes, loss of biodiversity, and climate change impacts) in Europe, the US, sub-Saharan Africa, Australia and Japan. Currently, her research focuses on the making of an 'innovative interdisciplinarity,' including the potential for creative geo-visualisation in narrating and reimagining the stressed relationships between people and place.