Mame Penda Ba

Mame Penda Ba, a professor and researcher at the Gaston Berger University of Saint-Louis, is the first woman to hold a university agrégation in political science in Senegal. She was special advisor to the Rector and Deputy Director of the Law and Political Science Department. She is the director of the Research Laboratory on Societies and Powers in Africa and the Diaspora (LASPAD) and is the Executive Secretary of the African Studies Association for Africa (ASAA). She is a member of several international research networks and her work covers the sociology of religion, the analysis of public action (Education, Health, Gender, Decentralization, Security) as well as the recompositions of the State in Africa. She is also editor of the journal Global Africa and co-editor of the blog CIHA (Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in Africa).