Ahmed Bangura

Associate Professor, received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Alberta in Canada, and specializes in the Orientalist tradition as it pertains to African literature.

He has published articles and translations in the area of African literature; contributed the article "Black, Orientalism …" in the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas; published a book on Islam and West African Fiction; and published a book in Arabic on narratives from the life of the Prophet Muhammad. He is doing research on Islamic ethics and thought, as well short stories and anecdotes from Arabia.

He currently teaches courses in French, Arabic, Islam and African literature.