Amy Niang is an Associate Professor of Political Science. Her work investigates African Political History and Political Thought, particularly in relation to the state and related notions of sovereignty and stateness. Her work also examines various aspects of Africa’s international relations and the geopolitics of security in the Sahel. She is the author of The Postcolonial African State in Transition: Stateness and Modes of Sovereignty (2018) and co-editor of Identités sahéliennes en temps de crise: histoires, enjeux et perspectives (2019, with Baz Lecocq).
