Susan Tschabrun has a Ph.D. in African history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a M.L.S. from the University of California at Los Angeles and has done archival research on African history in Khartoum, Wad Medani, London and Durham. She has completed professional training in archival management and preservation, and has served as archivist for a non-profit educational archive of international poster art (Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Los Angeles, California). She is currently the Coordinator of Library Instruction at California State University, Fullerton.

Kathryn Green has a Ph.D. in African history from Indiana University and has done archival research on African history in London, Paris, Dakar, Abidjan, Ferkessedougou (Côte d’Ivoire), Ouagadougou, Bobo Dioulasso and Bamako. She is currently researching the role of archives and museums, and their formation, in the process of nation-building and democratization in Africa.

Thanks also to Seydou Camara (translation, data entry and scanning), Evans Kahuthu (data entry and scanning), Jason Beers (graphic design) and Alton Pelowski (Cold Fusion) for their assistance on this project.