Fellows

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. She received her “agrégation,” which is the highest teaching diploma in the French system, in political science. Prof. Ba is currently the Scientific Director of the PhD program on Political Science. She also heads the Laboratoire d’analyse des sociétés et pouvoirs / Afrique-Diasporas (Research Laboratory on Societies and Powers Africa/Diaspora, LASPAD). Her research interests cover political sociology of religion, the analysis of public policies, gender studies, and the social genesis and dynamics of the State in

J. Shola Omotola obtained his PhD in comparative African governance and politics from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He is currently a professor of political science at the Federal University, Oye Ekiti (FUOYE), where he is the director of Research and Development and head of the Department of Political Science. Recently a visiting professor at the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS), University of Bayreuth, Germany, he previously worked as a consultant in the Office of the Director General and Head, Socio-Political Unit of the Department of Research and Training, National Institute for Legislative Studies (NILS), National Assembly,