Adjei Agyei-Baah (born Eric Adjei Baah, June 29, 1977, Kumasi, Ashanti Region, Ghana; died December 18, 2023), lecturer, translator, editor, and haiku poet. He was a PhD candidate in English at the Division of Education, University of Waikato, New Zealand at the time of his death. Cofounder of Africa Haiku Network, the Poetry Foundation Ghana, and The Mamba, Africa's first haiku journal.

Emmanuel Jessie Kalusian (born February 8, 1996, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria), document controller and procurement expert and foreign exchange trader. He has been writing haiku since 2012 and has been published in The Heron’s Nest, Modern Haiku, A Hundred Gourds, Cattails, and other international journals. Kalusian is the cofounder of the Africa Haiku Network and coeditor of The Mamba, Africa’s first haiku journal. He lives in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.