Ibrahima Niang holds a PhD in Sociology from Cheikh Anta Diop University (Dakar, Senegal). He is an assistant lecturer at the Department of Sociology and his teaching focuses on economic sociology, African sociology and anthropology, international relations, and China geopolitics in Africa. In the fall of 2023, he was a visisting research fellow at Leibniz Moderner Zentrum- Humboldt University. He has extensively visited China and was engaged in the Africa-China program at CODESRIA (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa) and the School of Agriculture and Rural Development of the People’s University of China. He holds a Certificate in Economic Development from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Ibrahima Niang is the author/co-author of numerous scientific articles and reports on development issues and prospectiv, academic freedom, migration, conflicts, research governance and epistemology, and social movements. He was a Fellow at the Edinburgh African Studies Center, UK, and holds an individual research fellowship from the Africa Peacebuilding Network (APN) of the Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC). He was Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Cape Town, Institute of Humanities (Knowledge activism – strengthening African publishing and dissemination – Open Society Foundations). He speaks his native language Wolof, French, English, Mandarinand German. He is a member of the organizing committee of Africa-Asia Con-festival in Dakar in 2025.
His project – titled The Digital Silk Roads: How Huawei is Rewriting the Future of ICT Infrastructure in Senegalese – aims to analyse how Huawei is rewriting the future of ICT in the modernization of public administration in Senegal; the establishment of a broadband network using new technologies and for making the extension of the administrative government intranet management of all services to reach all parts of the country.