Bassey E. Antia is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Western Cape, South Africa. His research interests span across multilingualism, terminology, language and health, the politics of language, and Southern epistemologies. A co-edited volume, Decolonial Voices, Language, and Race, appeared in 2022 (Multilingual Matters). Previous work has included a monograph and two co-edited volumes.

Sinfree Makoni is Professor of African Studies and Applied Linguistics at Pennsylvania State University. He has held a number of different positions in the United States and Southern Africa. He has published extensively in the areas of language in health, language policy and planning, and decolonial and Southern epistemologies. He is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Applied Linguistics and holds a number of honorary appointments in universities in Africa.