Board members

Chair

Rabiat Akande (University of Maryland) (2024-)

Vice-chair

Cheikh Babou (University of Pennsylvania) (2023-)

Treasurer

Naeema Hussein El Kout (University of the Witwatersrand) (2025-)

Secretary

Frédérick Madore (University of Bayreuth) (2024-)

Members at-large

• Wendell Hassan Marsh (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University) (2024-)
• Musa Ibrahim (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology) (2024-)
• K. D. Thompson (University of Wisconsin-Madison) (2024-)
• Abdulbasit Kassim (New York University Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora) (2023-)
• Yunus Dumbe (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology) (2025-)

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Former board members

• Michelle M. Apotsos (Treasurer, -2025)
• Jeremy Dell (Member at-large, -2025)

Previous board (2021-23)

• Mauro Nobili, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Chair)
• Assan Sarr, Ohio University (Vice-Chair)
• Khaled Esseisah, Georgetown University (Secretary)
• Erin Pettigrew, NYU Abu Dhabi (Treasurer)
• Nathaniel Matthews, Binghamton University (Member at-large)
• Afis Ayinde Oladosu, University of Ibadan (Member at-large)
• Kimberly Wortmann, Wake Forest University (Member at-large)
• Zachary Wright, Northwestern University in Qatar (Member at-large)