1- Editorial Board
Prof. Komla M. Avono, PhD
(University of Lome, Togo)
Scientific Director & Chief Editor
Prof. Komla M. Avono is Full Professor of American Studies at the University of Lomé, Togo, where he teaches and researches American literature, African American cultural studies, identity representations, race, gender, social inequalities, and the intersections between literature, society, and public policy. He holds a doctorate in American Cultural and Literary Studies and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, USA. A Fulbright Scholar and alumnus of the International Visitor Leadership Program, Professor Avono is also the author of Reading Multiple Consciousness: Exploring the Complexity of Postmodern Identity, published by Lexington Books/Bloomsbury in 2024. In addition to his scholarly and editorial work, he serves as Director of the International Language Center at the University of Lomé and as Scientific Director of the international Master’s program in Conference Interpretation, developed with the support of the United Nations and other international organizations. His academic leadership combines research, editorial governance, international cooperation, language education, and socially engaged scholarship.
Kristina M. Darling
(State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA)
Associate Chief Editor
Kristina Marie Darling, PhD, is a poet, essayist, critic, editor, publisher, and literary scholar. She holds a doctorate from the Poetics Program at SUNY-Buffalo and terminal degrees in writing from Columbia University and New York University’s Paris Writing Program. A former Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge, she is the author of forty books spanning poetry, criticism, essays, feminist poetics, and collaborative writing, with works published or forthcoming from major presses including Bloomsbury, Clemson University Press, Liverpool University Press, Black Ocean, Black Lawrence Press, Persea Books, Dzanc Books, C&R Press, Salmon Poetry, and Tupelo Press. Her poems and essays have appeared in leading literary venues such as The Harvard Review, Poets.org, The New York Times, Poets & Writers, The Kenyon Review, The American Poetry Review, Lit Hub, Ploughshares, and The Iowa Review. She has received numerous awards, grants, fellowships, and international residencies, including honors from Yaddo, the American Academy in Rome, the Whiting Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, the Elizabeth George Foundation, and the Fulbright Program. She serves as Editor-in-Chief of Tupelo Press and Tupelo Quarterly and is the founder of Penelope Coaching & Consulting.
Komi Begedou
(University of Lomé, Togo)
Editorial Director
Komi Begedou, PhD, is an Associate Professor of American Studies in the Department of English at the Université de Lomé, Togo. His teaching and research focus on American literature and culture, with particular interests in African American studies, gender studies, cultural studies, and environmental studies. He participated in the Study of the U.S. Institutes (SUSI) program at New York University in 2010 and served as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Texas State University from 2014 to 2015. He has published more than 35 peer-reviewed articles, three critical books, and two book chapters in Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context. He is an active member of the Anglophone Studies Research Team at the Université de Lomé, where he contributes to scholarly research, editorial work, and collaborative academic initiatives in English and American studies. From 2018 to 2019, he served as Director of University Libraries at the Université de Lomé. Since 2019, he has been Deputy Director of the West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL), where he supports research coordination, training programs, and institutional partnerships on climate change, sustainable land use, and development in West Africa.
Palakyèm Mouzou
(University of Kara, Togo)
Executive Editorial Director
Palakyem (Stephen) Mouzou is an Associate Professor of Descriptive Linguistics at the University of Kara, Togo. With fourteen years of experience in higher education, research, scientific communication, and academic administration, he has developed strong expertise in descriptive and applied linguistics, bilingual education, neology, semantic variation, lexicography, and terminology planning. He currently serves as Adviser to the President of the University of Kara, in charge of the President’s Office and strategic intelligence, and is Vice-President of the POCLANDE International Network in France. A Fulbright Scholar for 2023/2024, Professor Mouzou has also coordinated communication and public relations activities at the University of Kara since 2018. He is a founding member of the Laboratory for Research and Studies in Linguistics, Psychology and Societies and supports the AUF’s Francophone Employability Centres in Togo. His work promotes education, international cooperation, youth employability, human rights, and linguistics for development.
Nouhr-dine D. Akondo
(University of Lomé, Togo)
Chief Editorial Assistant
Nouhr-Dine D. Akondo is a poet, playwright, and Associate Professor of English Literature at Université de Lomé, Togo. His research is on drama and poetry and examines postcolonial issues, the image of the black man in English Literature, and representations of science, technology and Artificial Intelligence in Literature. He has published and co-published poems. His poems have been published in the Best New African Poetry Anthology 2017 in Zimbabwe, and in Kenya in COVID-19 DIARY: World’s Anthology of Poetry (2020), and I Can’t Breathe: A Poetic Anthology of Fresh Air (2022). As a playwright, he is also a director and has two productions to his credit, notably Un piège sans Fond (at Festilarts in 2017) and “When we go” in 2022, and has been a partner with Afropoésie since 2016.
Mabandine Djagri-Temoukale
(University of Kara, Togo)
Editorial Assistant
Dr. Mabandine Djagri T. is an Associate Professor of English Literature at Kara University, Togo. Since 2023, He has been appointed Head of the doctoral program in Human Sciences and Society, Letters, Languages and Arts (SHSLLA). Beyond academia, Dr. Djagri T. is the founder and Director General of the African Life Coaching Academy (ALCA), and the Managing Director of the Center for Consulting, Training, Translating, and Interpreting (2C2TI). His 2021-2022 Fulbright Visiting Scholar program led him to George Washington University where he conducted research on doctoral supervision. Dr. Djagri T. is a certified Life Coach from the Certified Life Coaching Institute (USA). He published more than 20 articles on English literature. His research interests cover science-fiction, techno-criticism, eugenics, Victorian and modernist literature.
Essohouna Tanang
(University of Kara, Togo)
Editorial Assistant
Essohouna Tanang is an Associate Professor of Contemporary History and a lecturer-researcher at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FLESH) of the University of Kara in Togo. A specialist in political history and international relations, his research focuses on three main areas: peace, security, insecurity, and intercommunal conflicts in Togo; migration and national and sub-regional integration; and Togo’s political history as well as its bilateral and multilateral cooperation. He is also a member of the International Research Centre for the Prevention of Child Soldiers (CIRPES) in Dakhla, Morocco. Author and co-author of more than twenty scientific articles and co-editor of a book, he has participated in several international scientific conferences in Togo, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, and France.
Essohouna Tanang
(University of Kara, Togo)
Editorial Assistant
Essohouna Tanang is an Associate Professor of Contemporary History and a lecturer-researcher at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FLESH) of the University of Kara in Togo. A specialist in political history and international relations, his research focuses on three main areas: peace, security, insecurity, and intercommunal conflicts in Togo; migration and national and sub-regional integration; and Togo’s political history as well as its bilateral and multilateral cooperation. He is also a member of the International Research Centre for the Prevention of Child Soldiers (CIRPES) in Dakhla, Morocco. Author and co-author of more than twenty scientific articles and co-editor of a book, he has participated in several international scientific conferences in Togo, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, and France.