Boubacar N'Diaye College of Wooster

Dr. Boubacar N’DIAYE is a Professor of Pan-African Studies and Political Science at The College of Wooster, Ohio. He is a widely published author specializing in civil-military relations and security. His most recent work pertains to military affairs in African politics, Pan-Africanism, and the democratization project in Africa. He has been a consultant to African, US and international agencies and organizations such as SIPRI, the Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the African Union (AU), the UN, the World Bank, and the SSRC’s Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum, and is a member of a number of International Advisory Boards.

He is the author of The Challenge of Institutionalizing Civilian Control: Botswana, Ivory Coast, and Kenya in Comparative Perspective (2001) and edited a special issue of the Journal of Political and Military Sociology on military involvement in West African politics (Winter 2000). Professor N’Diaye is the co-author of Not Yet Democracy: West Africa's Slow Farewell to Authoritarianism (2005), and co-editor of Security Sector Governance in West Africa (2008), Parliamentary Oversight of the Security Sector in West Africa (2008), and Elections in West Africa, 1990-2009 (2011).

Professor N’Diaye is the current Chair of the African Security sector Network (ASSN), a pan-African think tank.