Babacar M'Baye | |
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| Born | 1967  Dakar |
| Occupation | Academic |
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Babacar M'Baye (born in 1967) is a Senegalese academic, Professor of English and pan-African studies at Kent State University. [1] His research interests include Pan-African literature, film and music, and post-colonial and transnational Black diaspora cultures. [2]
M'Baye was born in Saint-Louis, Senegal, in 1967. [3] He studied English from Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis before gaining an MA in American Studies from Pennsylvania State University. He received his PhD in American Culture Studies from Bowling Green State University.
M'Baye has emphasized the leading role played by Langston Hughes as a voice for black transnationalism and cosmopolitanism. [4] He has written on the contested figure of the goordjiggen, the 'man-woman' or gender nonconformist, in Senegalese culture, and edited a collection on gender and sexuality in Senegalese societies. [5] His work has also examined the enduring impact of the transatlantic slave trade on African institutions, by destabilizing African political institutions and creating an African slaver class parasitic on Western slave ships rather than local legitimacy. [6]
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