Camille Lefebvre – Principal Investigator of the project, is an historian, Research professor in African History at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and EHESS, affiliated to the IMAf (French Institute of African Worlds).
Ari Awagana – Co-investigator of the project is a linguist, lecturer for Hausa and Kanuri in the Institut für Afrikastudien in Leipzig University.
Benedetta Rossi – Co-investigator of the project is an historian, full professor in the History and Anthropology of Africa at the Department of History of the University College London (UK).
Sandra Bornand – Researcher in the project is an anthropo-linguist working on zarma-songhay in Niger, researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in the Llacan. She runs the sub-project Laabu sanni no/Zancan kasa ne.
Cécile van den Avenne – Researcher in the project is a sociolinguist, directrice d’études at EHESS. She runs the sub-project Les voix de 1931.
Véronique Ginouvès, “Ingénieure de recherche” at the CNRS in charge of the Research Archives Department – Sound Archives Center at the Médiathèque of the Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’homme (MMSH) in Aix-en-Provence
Idé Hamani – Post-doctoral researcher in the project, has a Phd in Sciences du langage (Analyse de discours).
Carolin Rippstain – Phd in the project
Mathis Quemeneur – Phd in the project