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Sean Jacobs is associate professor of international affairs at the Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs at The New School. He is founder and editor of Africa is a Country, a site of criticism, analysis and new writing. His book, Media in Postapartheid South Africa: Postcolonial Politics in the Age of Globalization, was published on May Day 2019.

A member of Black Alliance for Peace's Africa Team and the Coordinator of the U.S. Out of Africa Network, the organizing arm of BAP's U.S. Out of Africa! Shut Down AFRICOM! campaign.

A scholar-activist, she has written about US involvement in apartheid South Africa, women under colonialism in Zimbabwe, the nationalist movement in Guinea, and foreign intervention in Africa from the Cold War to the war on terror. Her exposé of the role of US businesses in supporting apartheid was banned by the South African government. More recently, she and her students have worked with African refugee communities in Baltimore, focusing on youth and adult education programs. Schmidt also tutors incarcerated students through the Goucher Prison Education Partnership. Her books include: Foreign Intervention in Africa after the Cold War: Sovereignty, Responsibility, and the War on Terror (2018); Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror (2013); Cold War and Decolonization in Guinea, 1946-1958 (2007); Mobilizing the Masses: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in the Nationalist Movement in Guinea, 1939-1958 (2005); Peasants, Traders, and Wives: Shona Women in the History of Zimbabwe, 1870-1939 (1992); and Decoding Corporate Camouflage: U.S. Business Support for Apartheid (1980).  

Samar Al-Bulushi is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine.  She is a contributing editor at Africa is a Country and her work has appeared in public outlets such as The Guardian, Al-Jazeera, and Pambazuka News. 

Dr. José de Arimatéia da Cruz is Professor of International Relations and Comparative Politics at Georgia Southern University, Adjunct Research Professor at the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, PA. and Research Associate of the Brazil Research Unit at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) in Washington, D.C.. 

Dr. da Cruz has been a visiting professor at the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) at the School of Economics in Prague, Czech Republic. He is currently a visiting Professor at the University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic. He has served as visiting professor at the University of Stavanger, Norway, La Serena Universidad in La Serena, Chile. 

Dr. da Cruz holds a B.A. in Philosophy & Political Science from Wright State University, Dayton, OH; an M.A. in Professional Communications and Leadership from Armstrong State University, Savannah, GA; a M.A. in Political Science/Political Philosophy from Miami University, Oxford, OH; an M.S. in Criminal Justice with an emphasis in cyber affairs and information assurance from Armstrong State University, and Master of Public Health (MPH) with a focus on information technology from Georgia Southern University, Savannah, GA. Dr. da Cruz earned his Ph.D. in Political Science (majors in International Relations and Comparative Politics  and minor in International Communications) from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

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