Boubacar N'Diaye

Associate Professor of Black Studies & Political Science

Department/Affiliation: Africana Studies; Political Science
Phone: 330-263-2409
Office Address: 002 Kauke Hall
Email: bndiaye@wooster.edu

Co-edited Challenges of Security Sector Governance in West Africa (Lit Verlag/Transactions Publishers, 2008) and Parliamentary Oversight of the Security Sector in West Africa (DCAF, 2008).
Co-author of Not Yet Democracy: West Africa's Slow Farewell to Authoritarianism (Carolina Academic Press, 2005).
The Challenge of Institutionalizing Civilian Control: Botswana, Ivory Coast, and Kenya in Comparative Perspective (Lexington Books, 2001).
Edited Journal of Political and Military Sociology (winter, 2000) on military involvement in West Africa.

Professor N'Diaye joined the Faculty in 1999.
Has been a consultant to African, US, and international agencies and organizations such as SIPRI, ACSS, ECOWAS, AU, UN, and the SSRC's Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum.
He specializes in civil-military relations, democratization, security sector governance and capacity building in Africa.
A member of several editorial and International Advisory Boards, N'Diaye is also involved in various academic and advocacy endeavors designed to transform security establishments and institutionalize democratic governance in the security sector of African states.
N'Diaye is an expert on civil-military relations and related security issues. His course offerings and scholarly works focus to comparative politics, democratization, the military in politics, security sector reforms in Africa, Pan-Africanism and themes of interest to Africa and its Diaspora.
Dr. N'Diaye is a widely published author. His most recent works (several articles, books, commissioned reports, and conference papers) pertain to military involvement in African politics, Pan-Africanism, and the democratization efforts in Africa.