Nic Cheeseman is Professor of Democracy and International Development at the University of Birmingham. He is the author or editor of ten books, including Democracy in Africa (2015) and How to Rig an Election (2018), and his research has won a number of prizes including the Frank Cass Award for the best article in Democratization (2015) and the Joni Lovenduski Prize for outstanding professional achievement by a midcareer scholar (2019) from the UK Political Studies Association. He is the founding editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of African Politics and the founder of www.democracyinafrica.org. Gabrielle Lynch is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Warwick. She is the author of over 30 articles and book chapters, and author or editor of five books, including I Say to You: Ethnic Politics and the Kalenjin in Kenya (2011) and Performances of Injustice: The Politics of Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in Kenya (2018). She is the Vice President of the British Institute in Eastern Africa and Deputy Chair of the Review of African Political Economy, and wrote a regular column in Kenya's Saturday Nation (2014-2018) and The East African (2015-2017). Justin Willis is Professor in History at Durham University. He is the author of Mombasa, the Swahili and the Making of the Mijikenda (1993), Potent Brews: A Social History of Alcohol in East Africa 1850-1999 (2002) and co-editor of The Sudan Handbook (2011) – well as numerous articles on the history and politics of Ghana, Kenya, Sudan, and Uganda. He has previously served as Director of the British Institute in Eastern Africa.