NGORSÈNE was trained at the School of Humanities & Social
Sciences at Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, Senegal (1985 - 1993). He is
an associate professor of History, Cultural Anthropology, and Conflict
Resolution at Chatham University in Pittsburgh (USA) where he concurrently
directs the Global Focus Program, an infusion of
international expertise and cross-cultural competencies for the Academy and
life-long learners in the Community. Sène is a Research Associate at the
World History Center, University of Pittsburgh and African Diaspora
Representative in the Democracy and Cooperation Forum (Madrid, Spain). He is a
member of the Executive Secretariate of the Joseph Ki-Zerbo International
Committee for Africa and the Diaspora. Ngorsène authored, among other
Bandung-related works, “L’Intercontinentale de la fin de la fin de l’histoire
et les contours d’un nouvel humanisme antilibéral: Naxal, Cabral, San Cristobal
et Népal” Journal of Identity, Politics and Culture: An Afro-Asian Dialogue (Council
for the Development of Social Science in Africa) CODESRIA, 2009, and is
co-director with Lazare Ki-Zerbo of L’Idéal panafricain contemporain:
fondements historiques et perspectives futures [The
Panafrican Ideal: Historical Foundations and Perspectives for the Future]
Dakar: CODESRIA. ISBN: 978-2-86978-585-4 (2015). He is putting the final
touches, as initiator and editor, to the collective book Towards an
Afro-Asian Renaissance? Historicity, Emergence, and Identity Management in the
Global South. Married to a compatriot for the past quarter-century, he is
the father of two girls. Ngorsène is a practicing (“Roman”) Catholic from a
Muslim nation who lives in a Jewish neighborhood…