Mamoudou Sy

Mamoudou Sy is professor of history at the Université Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD) in Dakar, Senegal, and a researcher at the West African Research Center. He holds a PhD from Université Cheikh Anta Diop. His interests focus on the social history of labor and land grabbing in Africa. At the International Institute of Social History (IISH) and the Amsterdam Institute of Social Sciences Research in the Netherlands he is working with Professor Marcel van der Linden on a project exploring the notion of global labor chains and, in particular, how the methods of global history can be applied to the study of policing in French West African colonies during the period from 1786 to 1959 and in the post-colonial period in Senegal from 1960 to 2012. Professor Sy’s publications include “Esclavage et élites fuutanke au temps de l’Almaami Abdel Kader Kan (1776-1806).” (Bulletin de l’Institut Fondamental d’Afrique Noire, Dakar, 2011). Currently he is finishing a book on the history of the Senegal River’s (Fuuta Tooro) middle valley during the pre-colonial and early colonial period(the 18th and 19th centuries), with a focus on local dynamics and the attempts to connect these areas to the global economy after the abolition of Atlantic slave trade by supporting colonial agriculture. Professor Sy is also working with Professor Babacar Fall on a global history hub project based at Geep, Fastef, UCAD.