1. Onyile Bassey Onyile is Professor of Art and Design at Georgia Southern University. He was raised in the area of Calabar, Nigeria. He specializes in the arts of Africa, particularly the tradition-based arts of the Cross River region of southeastern Nigeria. Research interests include performance and masquerades, and the figures carved for ancestral shrines.
2. Christopher Slogar is Associate Professor of Art History at California State University, Fullerton. He specializes in the arts of Africa, particularly southern Nigeria. Research interests include archaeology, cultural continuity and change, colonialism, and the illicit antiquities trade.