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Mamadou Diouf

• Professor of History, Director Institute for African Studies
  Committee on Global Thought
  Columbia University

Mamadou Diouf is a Professor of History and Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC). He leads Columbia University’s Institute for African Studies at the School of International and Public Affairs. Diouf is also a faculty member in Columbia's Departments of Educated principally in France, Diouf is a renowned West African scholar who has taught in his native Senegal at the University Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar and guest-lectured at many European and American universities. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Paris-Sorbonne (France). His research interests include urban, political, social and intellectual history in colonial and postcolonial Africa. His most recent book is Histoire du Senegal: Le Modele Isalamo-Wolof Et Ses Peripheries (2001). He is the author, editor and co-author of several other works including Les Figures du Politique En Afrique, Des Pouvoirs Herites aux Pouvoirs Elus (1999) and Les Jeunes, Hantise de L'Espace Public dans Les Societes du Sud, (Autrepart, 18, 2001). He is also a member of the editorial board of several professional journals including the Journal of African History.