Zeinab Badawi (Author)
Zeinab Badawi is an award-winning broadcaster, journalist, and filmmaker. She is President of SOAS University of London and is an honorary fellow of her alma mater St Hilda's College, Oxford. Born in Sudan, she has worked in the British media for several decades. Zeinab is a recipient of the President's Medal of the British Academy, a Patron of the United Nations Association UK, and is on the boards of the Arts, Humanities and Research Council, MINDS (the Mandela Institute for Development Studies), the International Crisis Group and Afrobarometer. She was previously Chair of the Royal African Society. An African History of Africa is her first book.

Dominique Ramsey (Illustrator)
Dominique Ramsey is an award-winning illustrator based in North Carolina, USA. Her previous books include Solitary Animals: Introverts of the Wild, Everyone Starts Small, and Hidden Heroes. Dominique's artwork is heavily inspired by science, history, and music. She does her best brainstorming while listening to music.