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Adama Ousmanou

Adama Ousmanou
Name Adama Ousmanou
Affiliation Visiting Associate Professor, African Studies Center - TUFS, Associate Professor; Head of Center for Research on Political, Social and Environmental Changes in the Sahel, Maroua University
E-mail ousmanouadyahoo.fr
Key Words Religions, Ethnicity and International relations in the Chad Basin
Academic Career October 2005 - January 2012 Université de Ngaoundéré (PhD in Religions and Political History)
October 2003 - July 2005 Université de Ngaoundéré (M.A. in History and D.E.A. in Hisotry)
October 2000 - July 2003 Université de Ngaoundéré (Bachelor of Arts in History)
Degree PhD in Religions and Political History at Université de Ngaoundéré (2012)
Professional Career June 2020 - Present Director, Research Center for Environmental, Social, Political Changes in the Sahel, Maroua University
November 2020 - February 2021 Associate Researcher, on sabbatical leave, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation), University of Cologne (Germany)
November 2018 - February 2019 Associate Researcher, on sabbatical leave, MINPAKU, Osaka University (Japan)
June 2018 - August 2019 Associate Researcher, on sabbatical leave, Temple University (USA)
December 2017 - March 2018 Associate Researcher, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (Germany)
September 2014 - September 2015 Associate Researcher, on sabbatical leave, Center for African Studies, University of Basel (Switzerland)
March 2013 - Present Associate Professor and Researcher, Maroua University
March 2009 - March 2013 Associate Researcher, on sabbatical leave, Graduate school of Humanities, Nagoya University (Japan)
December 2006 - March 2007 Assistant Researcher, on sabbatical leave, African Studies Centre, Leiden University (Netherlands)
Academic Associations Swiss Society for African Studies
Major Works

【Resent Major Works】

  • Ousumanou, Adama 2019. "From Transnational to National Security, the Changing Pattern of Ethno-military Systems in the Post-independence Chad: Comparative Study from Tombalbaye to Deby". In C.A. Ngwa and M.B. Funteh (eds.), Crossing the Line in Africa: Reconsidering and Unlimiting the Limits of Borders within a Contemporary Value. Bamenda: Langaa RPCIG, 277-301.
  • Kendhammer, Brandon, and Adama Ousmanou 2019. "Islam, Higher Education, and Extremism in Cameroon". RESOLVE Network Research Brief 1.
  • Ousumanou, Adama 2018. "Boko Haram's E-jihad: Interpretative of Videoanalysis of a Sociopolitical Situation in Northern Cameroon and Nigeria". International Journal of Research Without Boundaries 1(2): 53-77.
  • Ousumanou, Adama 2017. "Zakat in Maroua: The Irrelevance Models for the Social Economy and Justice (Northern Cameroon)". África [s]-Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos Africanos e Representações da África 4(7): 124-137.
  • Ousumanou, Adama 2016. "Ethnicity and Islam in Cameroon and Nigeria". In Saibou Issa (ed.), Les Musulmans, L'école et L'état dans le bassin du lac Tchad. Paris: l'Harmattan, 21-45.
  • Ousumanou, Adama 2016. "Essai d'interprétation des figures géométriques des gandouras au nord-Cameroun : patrimoine culturel ou religieux ? (Geometric Interpretation of Gandoura in Northern Cameroon : Cultural or Religious Heritage ?)" In Hamadou Adama (ed.), Patrimoine et Sources de L'histoire du Nord-Cameroun (Etudes africaines Hors Série). Paris: l'Harmattan, 219-245.