Tamba M'bayo

Region of Interest

Africa

Primary Country of Residence

United States of America

Title

Associate Professor

Affiliation

West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia

Email

tembayo@mail.wvu.edu

Mailing Address

Department of History
220 Woodburn Hall Box 6303
West Virginia University
Morgantown, West Virginia 26506

Phone/Fax Number(s)

304-293-6198

Countries of Specialization

Senegal and Sierra Leone

Research Interests

Indigenous interpreters and other interlocutors (marabouts, chiefs,
traitants, intellectuals, etc.) in colonial Senegal from about 1850
to 1939.

Other areas of interest include West Africa during the colonial
era, slavery, Islam, Pan-Africanism, and the African diaspora.

***See: https://history.wvu.edu/faculty-and-staff/faculty/tamba-m-bayo

Publications

Book:
Muslim interpreters in colonial Senegal, 1850-1920 : mediations of knowledge and power in the lower and middle Senegal River Valley. Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, 2016.

Book chapters & journal articles:
“Ebola, Poverty, Economic Inequity and Social Injustice in Sierra Leone.” Journal of West African History 4, no. 1 (2018): 99-128.

“The Politics of Football in Post-colonial Sierra Leone.” In Brenda Elsey and Stanlislao Pugliese, eds. Football and the Boundaries of History: Critical Studies in Soccer. New York: Palgrave Macmillan: 2017, 267-293.

“Africa’s Past, Present and Future Underdevelopment: Dependency in the Context of Globalization,” in Alain Laurent Aboa, Hilaire de Prince Pokam, Adama Sadio and Aboubakr Tandia, eds., Démocratie et développement en Afrique: perspectives des jeunes chercheurs Africains (Tome 2). Imaginaires et practiques du développement à l’épreuve de la politique internationale (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2013), 23-50.

“Historical Memory, Pan-Africanism, and National Consciousness,” in Ismail Rashid and Sylvia Macauley, eds., Paradoxes of History and Memory in Post-colonial Sierra Leone (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013), 77-99.

“Bou El Mogdad Seck, 1826-1880: Interpretation and Mediation of Colonialism in Senegal,” in African Agency and European Colonialism: Latitudes of Negotiations and Containment, edited by Femi J. Kolapo and Kwabena O. Akurang-Parry (University Press of America, 2007), 25-44.

“W. E. B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, and Pan-Africanism in Liberia, 1919–1924,” The Historian 66, No. 1 (Spring 2004), 19-44.

Keywords

translation ; intellectual history ; colonial Senegal ; pan-Africanism ; African diaspora ; slavery