Papa Sow
Senior Researcher
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Papa Sow is a senior researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute. His research focuses on migration dynamics in West Africa. He also explores the cross-cutting nature of human mobility in natural resources, with a particular interest in extractivism (salt, critical minerals, etc.). Papa Sow holds a PhD in Geography.
Research
Papa Sow main lines of research are Migration dynamics, society and culture, and Natural resources extraction and Climate Change. He is a critical observer of the political and societal dynamics currently happening in the West African sub-region. Other thematic interests are: conflicts linked to natural resources, the issues of critical minerals and geopolitics.
Current positions and affiliations
- Member, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa External link, opens in new window., Dakar, Senegal
- Lecturer, Doctoral Research Program on Climate Change and Education-Program WASCAL External link, opens in new window.-University of The Gambia, Banjul, The Gambia
- Lecturer at the Ecole doctorale pluridisciplinaire – ED, Université Numérique Cheikh Hamidou KANE - UN-CHK, Dakar Senegal.
Background
Previous jobs: Consultant, Research Associate, Catalan Fund for Cooperation and Development, Spain (2005-2006). Researcher, Project leader, Open University of Catalonia, Spain (2007-2009), Marie Curie Research Fellow, CRER, University of Warwick, UK (2009-2011). Senior Researcher, Centre for Development Research,-ZEF – University of Bonn (2012-2017). Senior Researcher at IFAN, University Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar (2017-2020).
