Eric is a learning, teaching and curriculum development expert with over ten years of experience and practice. He has consulted on various curricular design and implementation programmes for a variety of delivery modes such as physical, virtual and hybrid. He is passionate about youth empowerment, skills development, employability, and the promotion of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through healthy cultural practices. Eric has extensive training in academic leadership and is a certified emotional intelligence coach. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies’(ACLS) African Humanities Programme (AHP), a Presidential Fellow of the African Studies Association (USA), an Iso Lomso Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) in South Africa, and a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Eric holds a PhD from the University of Cape Coast in Ghana, and is the author of many academic papers on the topic of quality education, advocacy, assessment and sustainable development. 

Bello Madinatu (PhD) is currently a lecturer/researcher of arts and cultural practices at the Department of Theatre and Film Studies, University of Cape Coast, Ghana. She majored in Arts Management, Theatre for Development and Music Education. She is a DAAD alumna, a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) for the African Humanities Program (AHP) and currently a fellow (Individual Research Fellow) of SSRC- African Peacebuilding Network (APN). She coordinated a DAAD-sponsored alumni project “Co-creating avenues for sustainable development”: UCC/Zeppelin-Hildesheim/Maiduguri from 2022 to 2023. She acted as the Co-director/dramaturgie for the Fringe – University of Cape Coast and Cape Coast Centre for National Culture collaborative project titled “Listen to the fishers”. She coordinated a DAAD-sponsored alumni project “Reframing Colonial Legacy”. Her research interests spans indigenous cultural traditions and heritage, gender dynamics in endogenous cultural practices, theatre and performance studies, arts management models and cultural policies. Her research skills encompass ethnographic fieldwork, qualitative methodologies, arts-based research and cultural heritage analysis. From 2022 to 2025. her research projects focused on ‘female’ master drummers in the performance of gender, decoloniality, Specifically, She researched into ‘female’ master drummers in their performance of gender, decoloniality, peacebuilding, inclusivity and sustainability in Ghana’s intangible cultural practices. Currently, she is researching into how eco-museums advances memory transmission, epistemic justice, healing and heritage regeneration. She has contributed to several peered-reviewed papers and book chapters in and across disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences.