Jon Abbink is a professor of Politics & Governance in Africa at the African Studies Centre, Leiden University. His interests are political anthropology, ethno-history, and culture and religion in the Horn of Africa (Ethiopia, Somalia). Current research projects are on Ethiopian regional history and livelihoods, the rhetoric and practice of ‘development’, and religion and community formation in Northeast Africa. Victor Adetula, PhD (1996), is Head of Research, Nordic Africa Institute (Sweden), and Professor of International Relations & Development Studies at the University of Jos (Nigeria). He was previously Claude Ake Visiting Professor at the University of Uppsala (2013), Head Division of Africa and African Integration at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Nigeria (2012), Nelson Mandela Chair of African Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2011), and Director of the Centre for Development Studies, University of Jos (1998- 2001). Andreas Mehler, PhD (1993) in Political Science, University of Hamburg, is Director of the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute and Professor of Political Science at the University of Freiburg. He has published extensively on democratisation processes and violent conflicts in West and Central Africa. With Henning Melber he was managing editor of Africa Spectrum. Henning Melber, PhD (1980) in Political Science, University of Bremen, is Director emeritus of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation and Senior Research Fellow of The Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden; Extraordinary Professor at the Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria, and the Centre for Africa Studies, University of the Free State. He has published extensively on Southern Africa and in particular Namibia. With Andreas Mehler he was managing editor of Africa Spectrum.