Tamba M’bayo joined the History Department in Fall 2006 from Michigan State University, where he defended his Ph.D. dissertation, “African Interpreters, Mediation, and the Production of Knowledge in Colonial Senegal: The Lower and Middle Senegal Valley, ca. 1850s to ca. 1920s,” in May 2007.

M’bayo received his BA (Honors) in Modern History from the University of Sierra Leone in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and taught in high schools in Sierra Leone, his homeland, and Togo for several years. He received his master’s degree in World and Comparative History at Miami University, Ohio (2000). His research interests include African Colonial Intermediaries in French West Africa, Colonial and Post-colonial West African Political and Social History, Pan-Africanism and Diasporan Connections in the Atlantic World, and Religion and Ethnicity in Africa.

Publications by M’bayo:
“ Bou El Mogdad Seck, 1826-1880: Interpretation and Mediation of Colonialism in Senegal,” in Femi J. Kolapo and Kwabena O. Akurang-Parry, eds., Latitudes of Negotiation and Containment: African Agency and European Colonialism. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2007, 25-44.
_____W. E. B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, and Pan-Africanism in Liberia, 1919–1924,” The Historian 66 (Spring 2004), 19–44.
He has also contributed entries to several encyclopedias:
_____ “Benin” and “Côte d’Ivoire”, in Thomas Riggs, ed., Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices. Detroit, MI: Thomson Gale, 2006, 101-107, 251-258.
_____“Ethnic Conflicts: West Africa,” in Thomas M. Leonard, ed., Encyclopedia of the Developing World. New York: Routledge, 2006, 626-629.
“ Africa,” “Americo-Liberians,” “Guinea,” “Liberia,” “Mali,” “Muslims in Africa,” and “Sierra Leone,” in Carl Skutsch, ed., Encyclopedia of the World’s Minorities. New York: Routledge, 2005, 27-28, 90-93, 527-529, 748-750, 784-786, 870-871, 1098-1100.
_____“Benin (Republic of)/Dahomey: Colonial Period,” in Kevin Shillington, ed., Encyclopedia of African History. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2005, 137-139. _____“Environment,” in Melvin Page, ed., Colonialism: An International Social, Cultural, and Political Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio, 2003, 190-191.

His book reviews include:
_____Benjamin N. Lawrance, Emily Lynn Osborn, and Richard L. Roberts, eds., Intermediaries, Interpreters, and Clerks: African Employees in the Making of Colonial Africa. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2006, The International Journal of African Historical Studies 40, 2 (2007), 372-373.
_____Ibrahim Abdullah, ed., Between Democracy and Terror: The Sierra Leone Civil War. Dakar: CODESRIA, 2004, The International Journal of African Historical Studies 39, 1 (2006), 156-158.
_____Mariane C. Ferme, The Underneath of Things: Violence, History, and the Everyday in Sierra Leone. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001, H-WestAfrica.
< http://www.h-net.org/~africa/reviews/> March 2003.