Mamoudou Gazibo

Mamoudou Gazibo OON is a Nigerien political scientist. He is a professor of political science at the Université de Montréal. He studies comparative political institutions and democratisation across African countries.

Education and positions Gazibo attended Montesquieu University in Bordeaux, where he graduated in 1994 with a political science degree. He continued to study there, and in 1995 completed a graduate diploma in political science, followed by a doctorate in political science in 1998. Gazibo particularly focuses on the cases of Benin and Niger, and on the interaction between economics and politics. Gazibo specifically investigates the determinants of democratisation, stressing the importance of incentive structures, political institutions, and economic conditions which are favourable to the emergence of democracy. The book is divided into three sections: the first on methodology in African studies, the second on the structure of government, and the third on the challenges of governance. They investigate the ramifications of this role in international politics, including China's military development and the creation of information warfare. With Daniel C. Bach, Gazibo co-edited the 2011 book L'État néopatrimonial : genèse et trajectoires contemporaines and the 2012 book Neopatrimonialism Africa and Beyond. AllAfrica, Radio France Internationale, Le Devoir, and Agence Ecofin.

Selected works Les paradoxes de la démocratisation en Afrique (2005) Introduction à la politique africaine (2006; 2010) Un nouvel ordre mondial made in China?, with Roromme Chantal (2011)

Selected awards Grande officier, Order of the Niger (2010)