Patrick Chabal was for many years a Professor at King's College London, latterly as Chair of African History and Politics. He wrote many key works including 'Amilcar Cabral: Revolutionary Leadership and Peoples War http: //www.hurstpublishers.com/book/amilcar-cabral/, Africa Works (with Jean-Pascal Daloz) and Africa: The Politics of Suffering and Smiling. He died in January 2014. Toby Green is Lecturer in Lusophone African History and Culture at King's College London. He has written and edited many works about the history of Guinea-Bissau and the wider sub-region, most recently (as editor), Brokers of Change: Atlantic Commerce and Cultures in Pre-Colonial Western Africa.