Mountaga Diarra, Ph.D. (1993), Institute of Sciences in Moscow. Before his retirement he was Head of the Department of Literacy at the DNEB of the Ministry of National Education in Mali.
Esger Duintjer, Ir.B. (1972), Technical University Delft, is a retired architect and structural engineer. He worked in West Africa for ten years for the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements. He is the author of a Bambara-French lexicon.
Jan Jansen, Ph.D. (1995), Leiden University, is Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology at Leiden University. He has published extensively on the Mande oral tradition.
All interested in griotsâ storytelling and African oral literature, and anyone concerned with the history of the medieval Mali Empire.