Ms Madji Abdi
Film Maker (Producer/Director)
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Mr Napolean Abdulai
Program for Coordination & Assistance on Security & Development (PCASED)
Bamako, Mali

Mr Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem
Pan African Movement
Kampala, Uganda

Mr Adekeye Adebajo
International Peace Academy
New York, USA

Ms Ama Ata Aidoo
Mbaasem
Accra, Ghana

Mr Ibrahim Al Nur
Political Science Department, American University in Cairo
Cairo, Egypt

Mr Neville Alexander
Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa
Cape Town, South Africa

Mr Russell Ally
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Johannesburg, South Africa

Ms Bertha Amisi
Nairobi Peace Initiative - Africa
Nairobi, Kenya

Ms Akwe Amosu
All Africa Global Media/allAfrica.com
Washington, DC, USA

Mr Kofi Anyidoho
Poet and professor of literature
Legon, Ghana

Ms Meaza Ashenafi
Ethiopian Women Lawyers' Association
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Dr Mohamed Ashour
Afro Egyptian Studies Program, Faculty of Economics & Political Science, Cairo University,
Giza, Egypt

Mr. Suliman Baldo
Independent researcher and political analyst on Central and Eastern Africa
Bloomfield, NJ, USA

Mr Jose Barroso
Southern African Development Community (SADC)
Gaborone, Botswana

Ms Eva Belfrage
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
Stockholm, Sweden

Mr Adotey Bing
The Africa Center
London, United Kingdom

Mr Breyten Breytenbach
Gorée Institute
Ile de Goree, Dakar, Senegal

Mr Nqaba Bucwa
Center for Conflict Resolution (CCR)
Cape Town, South Africa

Mr Abdalla Bujra
Development Policy Management Forum (DPMF)
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Ms Abena Busia
Professor of English
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

Mr Horace Campbell
Syracuse University, Department of African American studies
Syracuse, NY, USA

Mr Mohamed Ibn Chambas
ECOWAS Secretariat
Abuja, Nigeria

Ms Adjoa Coleman
African Union
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Ms Eva Dadrian
Broadcaster and writer
Cairo, Egypt

Ms Zohra Dawood
Open Society Foundation for South Africa
Cape Town, South Africa

Mr Alex De Waal
Justice Africa,
London UK

General Cheick Oumar Diarra
ECOWAS Secretariat
Abuja, Nigeria

Ms Aicha Diawara-Tamboura
Association of African Women for Research and Development (AAWORD)
Dakar, Senegal

Mr Boia Efraime Junior
Rebuilding Hope
Maputo, Mozambique

Ms Hoda Moftah El Saadi
Islamic history scholar and founding member of the Women and Memory Forum
Cairo, Egypt

Mr Alpha Fall
Institute for Human Rights and Development
Banjul, The Gambia

Mr Nuruddin Farah
Novelist
Cape Town, south Africa

Mr Sameh Fawzy Henien
Watani Newspaper
Cairo, Egypt

Mr Kayode Fayemi
Center for Democracy and Development
Lagos, Nigeria

Dr Erick V.A Gbodossou
Promotion des Medecines Traditionnelles (PROMETRA)
Dakar, Senegal

Mr Stephen Gelb
The EDGE Institute (Economic Development, Growth & Equity Institute)
Johannesburg, South Africa

Mr Abdel Ghaffar
Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA)
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Ms Salima Ghazali
La Nation
Algiers, Algeria

Mr Yao Graham
Third World Network-Africa (TWN-Africa)
Accra, Ghana

Ms Abi Gitari
Refugee Consortium of Kenya
Nairobi, Kenya

Ambassador Ahmed Haggag
Assistant Secretary General of the OAU, 1987-1999
Cairo, Egypt

Ms Julia Harrington
Open Society Institute
New York, USA

Ms Slu Hlongwa
SaferAfrica
Pretoria, South Africa

Mr Eboe Hutchful
Africa Security Dialogue and Research (ASDR)
Accra, Ghana

Mr Julius Ihonvbere
African Center on Constitutionalism
Lagos, Nigeria

Mr Ehiedu Iweriebor
Department of Africana & Puerto Rican/Latino Studies
Hunter College of the City University of New York
New York, USA

Mr Aboubakr Jamaï
Le Journal Hebdomadaire
Casablanca, Maroc

Ms Amie Joof-Cole
African Women's Media Centre
Dakar, Senegal

Ms Monica Juma
Institute for Governance and Human Rights
Nairobi, Kenya

Ms Francine Kabore
Pan-African Federation of Associations and Clubs/OAU
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Ms Nira Kapila
The Asian-African Heritage Museum
Nairobi, Kenya

Ms Urusaro Alice Karekezi
Center for Conflict Resolution, National University of Rwanda
Kigali, Rwanda

Mr Kwame Karikari
Media Foundation for West Africa
Accra, Ghana

Ms Heba Kassem
Journalist
Cairo, Egypt

Ms Wanjiru Kihoro
ABANTU for Development
London, England

Ms Muna Khugali
Sudan Women's Convention
London, UK

Mr John Kudjoe
The Africa Institute of South Africa
Pretoria, South Africa

Ms Joy Kwaje Eluzai
Southern Women Group for Peace, Sudan Council of Churches
Khartoum, Sudan

Ms Comfort Lamptey
UNHCR
Freetown, Sierra Leone

Mr Chris Landsberg
Centre for Africa's International Relations (CAIR) and Centre for Policy Studies
Johannesburg, South Africa

Ms Bene Madunagu
Girls' Power Initiative (GPI)
Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria

Mr Mahmood Mamdani
Columbia University African Studies Program
New York, USA and Kampala, Uganda

Mr Xolela Mangcu
Steve Biko Foundation
Johannesburg, South Africa

Mr Firoze Manji
Fahamu - learning for change and Pambazuka News,
Oxford, UK

Mr Ram Manikkalingam
Global Inclusion, Rockefeller Foundation
New York, USA

Mr Luis Martinez
Center for Study of International Relations (CERI),
Paris, France

Mr Moeletsi Mbeki
Endemol and South African Institute for International Affairs
Johannesburg, South Africa

Mr Ezra Mbogori
MWENGO
Harare, Zimbabwe

Ms Comm Thoko Mpumlwana
Electoral Commission of South Africa
Pretoria, South Africa

Ms Sarah Meek
Institute for Security Studies (ISS)
Pretoria, South Africa

Dr Horeya Megahed
International Alliance of Women
Cairo, Eqypt

Mr Abdul Mohammed
Inter-African Group
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Mr Kwezi Mngqibisa
African Center for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD)
Umhlanga Rocks, South Africa

Ms Betty Murungi
Urgent Action Fund-Africa
Nairobi, Kenya

Mr Kizito Mushizi
Radio Maendeleo
Bukavu, Sud-Kivu, DR Congo

Ms Lucy Muyoyeta
Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa
Johannesburg, South Africa

Ms Maria Nassali
Kituo Cha Katiba
Kampala, Uganda

Mr Xavier Ndona
Initiatives Jeunes
Kinshasa-Limite, Republique Democratique du Congo

Mr Gabriel Negatu
African Development Bank
Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire

Mr Gamal Nkrumah
Al Ahram Weekly
Cairo, Egypt

Mr Wiseman Nkuhlu
NEPAD Secretariat
Johannesburg, South Africa

Mr Sadikh Niasse
Coordinateur de WARIPNET (West African Refugees and Internally-Displaced Persons Network)
Dakar, Senegal

Ms Jessica Nkuuhe
International Women's Resource Centre (Isis-WICCE)
Kampala, Uganda

Mr Motoyoshi Noro
Embassy of Japan
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Mr Pitika Ntuli
African Renaissance Institute
Durban KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Mr Tunde Obadina
Africa Business Information Services
Bridgnorth, UK

Mr. Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
Open Society Initiative
Abuja, Nigeria

Mr. Joseph Oloka-Onyango
Associate Professor of law, Makerere University,
Kampala, Uganda

Chief (Mrs) Bisi Ogunleye
Country Women Association of Nigeria (COWAN)
Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria

Ms Funmi Olonisakin
Center for Democracy and Development
Lagos, Nigeria

Mr Adebayo Olukoshi
CODESRIA
Dakar, Senegal

Mr Jean-Bernard Ouedraogo
CODESRIA
Dakar, Senegal

Ms Aida Opoku-Mensah
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Mr Kwesi Prah
Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS)
Cape Town, South Africa

Mr Desslegn Rahmato
Forum for Social Studies
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Mr Prega Ramsamy
Southern African Development Community (SADC)
Gaborone, Botswana

Ms Stella Sabiiti
Center for Conflict Resolution (CECORE)
Kampala, Uganda

Ms Sabine Sabimbona
Collectif des Associations et ONG féminines du Burundi (CAFOB)
Bujumbura, Burundi

Ms Heba Saleh
Journalist
Cairo, Egypt

Mr. Brahim Salhi
Sociologist, University of Tizi Ouzou
Tizi Ouzou, Algeria

Mr. John Samuel
Nelson Mandela Foundation
Johannesburg, South Africa

Mr Yasir Saleim Ali Shalabi
Nubian Studies and Documentation Centre
Khartoum, Sudan

Ms Karen Shormeh Sai
Progressive Life Center
Washington, DC, USA

Mr Hassan Sunmonu
Organization of African Trade Union Unity (OATUU)
Accra, Ghana

Ms Maria Timane
Traditional healer
Josina Machel Island, Mozambique

Mr Noel Twagiramungu
League of Human Rights Organizations in the Great Lakes Region (LDGL)
Kigali, Rwanda

Ms Lucie Umukundwa
Journalist covering Great Lakes region, Voice of America
Rwanda

Mr Ernest Wamba dia Wamba
Congo Peace
DR Congo

Mr Binyavanga Wainaina
Writer
Nairobi, Kenya

Ms L. Muthoni Wanyeki
African Women's Development and Communications Network (FEMNET)
Nairobi, Kenya

Ms Afi A. Yakubu
Foundation for Security and Development in Africa (FOSDA)
Accra, Ghana

Mr Bahru Zewde
Forum for Social Studies
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Mr. Akwasi Aidoo
Director, Special Initiative for Africa
Ford Foundation,
New York, USA

Mr Babatunde Ahonsi
Senior Program Officer
Ford Foundation
LAgos, Nigeria

Mr Tade Aina
Representative for Eastern Africa
Ford Foundation,
Nairobi, Kenya

Ngozi Amu
Ford Foundation
New York, USA

Mr Ahmed Bawa
Program Officer
Ford Foundation
Johannesburg, South Africa

Ms Alison Bernstein
Vice President, Knowledge, Creativity and Freedom Program
Ford Foundation
New York, USA

Ms Megan Burke
Ford Foundation
New York, USA

Ms Maha El-Adawy
Program Officer
Ford Foundation
Cairo, Eqypt

Ms Basma El-Husseiny
Program Officer
Ford Foundation
Cairo, Egypt

Mr Gary Hawes
Program Officer
Ford Foundation
Johannesburg, South Africa

Mr Steve Lawry
Director, Office of Management Services
Ford Foundation
New York, USA

Ms Natalia Kanem
Deputy to the Vice President, Peace and Social Justice program
Ford Foundation
New York, USA

Ms Adhiambo Odaga
Representative for West Africa
Ford Foundation
Lagos, Nigeria

Ms Carol Pollack
Program Associate
Ford Foundation
New York, USA

Mr Gerry Salole
Representative for Southern Africa
Ford Foundation
Johannesburg, South Africa

Mr Brad Smith
Vice President, Peace and Social Justice Program,
Ford Foundation,
New York, USA

Ms Sara Rakita
Consultant
Ford Foundation
New York, USA