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)
Carolin Rippstain – Phd in the project
Elara Bertho – Researcher in the project is permanent researcher in African literature at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), affiliated to the LAM (Les Afriques dans le monde)
Stephanie Zehnle – Researcher in the project is an historian Juniorprofessorin at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, CAU
Cécile van den Avenne – Researcher in the project is a sociolinguist, professor at Sorbonne nouvelle University