DR. BAMBA NDIAYE
Bamba Ndiaye is the creator and host of The Africanist Podcast. He is an Assistant Professor of African Studies at Emory University’s Oxford College and a former Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University’s Society for the Humanities. He earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Humanities at the University of Louisville.
DR. JENNY PARKER
Jenny Parker is working on a PhD in Anthropology with a minor in African Studies at Indiana University. She has a Masters degree in French from the University of Wisconsin and an advertising degree from The University of Texas.
DR. CHEIKH THIAM
Cheikh Thiam is a Professor of English and Black Studies at Amherst College and the author and editor of several volumes on Negritude and African philosophy and literature including Return to the Kingdom of Childhood: Re-envisioning the philosophical relevance of Negritude, the first book-length study of Leopold Sedar Senghor’s theory of Negritude as philosophy.
DR. BABA BADJ
Baba Badji is a Senegalese American poet, translator, and researcher, and an Inaugural Postdoctoral Fellow Associate with the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice (ISGRJ) and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. He is also an Inaugural James Baldwin Artist and Scholar in Residence at the University of Virginia’s Department of French. Badji earned his PhD in Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis, where he was a Chancellor’s Graduate Fellow and an Edward A. Bouchet Honor Society Fellow.
DR. PENDA BA
Mame-Penda Ba is deputy dean of the Faculty of Law and Political science and professor of political science at Gaston Berger University of Saint-Louis–Senegal.
DR. AMY NIANG
Amy Niang is Senior Programme Officer and Head of the Research Programme. She is specialised in African Political History and Political Thought. Her work also examines Africa’s International relations and the geopolitics of security in the Sahel. Amy is the author of The Postcolonial African State in Transition: Stateness and Modes of Sovereignty (2018); co- editor of Identités sahéliennes en temps de crise: histoires, enjeux et perspectives (with Baz Lecocq, 2019) and Researching Peacebuilding in Africa: Reflections on Theory, Fieldwork and Context (with Ismail Rashid, 2020).
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