Mamoudou Gazibo

Mamoudou Gazibo , originating in the Niger, is qualified schoolteacher at the Department of political science of the Université of Montreal. After having obtained its doctorate at the University Montesquieu Bordeaux IV, it carried out its doctoral research post with the Université of Montreal in 1999-2000 thanks to a purse of excellence of the university Agence of the francophonie. Teacher and researcher specialized in compared policy, it undertakes research on democratization in sub-Saharan Africa, the comparative literature and néo-institutionalism. It is interested in the role of the institutions in the consolidation or the failure of democratization in Africa.

In its Introduction to the African policy , Gazibo affirms that to produce knowledge on Africa it is advisable to avoid three pitfalls:

To avoid abusive generalizations not by approaching Africa like a country but a heterogeneous unit;
To treat the African objects for themselves, and not like the back of a Western decoration;
To solve the dilemma between universalism and African specificity.

Further Gazibo specifies that the theories globalisantes following the example “Développementisme” of the years 1960 and 1970, were unable to give an account of African complexity. It calls some with theories produced at the local level to try to seize moving, complex and multidimensional realities. Research on the continent suffers from a conceptual weakness, according to once again the Western standards.

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