Selase W. Williams was Director of African American Studies at the University of Washington, where he taught Krio for a decade and Chair of the Pan African Studies Department at California State University-Northridge, where he received the Distinguished Faculty Award from the California Faculty Association. In addition to being appointed Dean of Arts and Sciences and Provost/Vice President for Academic Affairs, Williams was elected two-term President of the National Council for Black Studies. Tom Spencer-Walters is Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) where he taught writing and African and Caribbean literatures. He was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Fort Hare in South Africa and a Visiting Professor at the University of Zimbabwe in Zimbabwe.
