Chair
Rabiat Akande (University of Maryland)
Vice-chair
Cheikh Babou (University of Pennsylvania)
Treasurer
Naeema Hussein El Kout (University of the Witwatersrand)
Secretary
Frédérick Madore (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient)
Members at-large
- Wendell Hassan Marsh (Rutgers University-Newark)
- Musa Ibrahim (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology)
- K. D. Thompson (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- Abdulbasit Kassim (New York University Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora)
- Yunus Dumbe (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology)
Former board members
- Michelle M. Apotsos (Treasurer, -2025)
- Jeremy Dell (Member at-large, -2025)
Previous board (2020-23)
- 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)