Professor Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo

Professor Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo

Professor Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo is Visiting Professor at The Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy at the University of Ghana (March-December 2022).

He is Tenured Full Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Department of Political Science at Wells College, New York; He is an External Examiner at the Department of Political Science at University of Ghana. He is Regional Affiliate at the Institute for African Development at Cornell University. For more than 17 years, he was also Visiting Scholar in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University. He is Editor-in-Chief of African and Asian Studies/Brill, Netherlands; and he was Co- Editor of African Journal of International Affairs until 2016.

He has taught political science at various universities and colleges in the USA and Africa, which includes: Cornell University; Vassar College; Bard College; University of Massachusetts at Boston; Wellesley College; Suffolk University; University of Liberia in Monrovia where he was Chair of Department of Political Science; He has also been Visiting Research Fellow, Center for the Study of International Cooperation in Education (CICE), Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan. In 2018, he was a fellow at Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study at Stellenbosch University in South Africa.

He has served as a consultant in the African Peer Review Mechanism of African Union on Political Governance and Democracy in Djibouti and Chad; wrote the main official document on Governance for Peer Review for Senegal.

Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo earned a Bachelor’s degree with distinction and a Diplôme d’Agrégation both from Université Libre du Congo (now the University de Kisangani), followed by a Master’s Degree at Harvard University; and a Master of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago.

His disciplines and areas of educational training and specialization include: World Politics; Educational Policy and Politics in Third World; Governance; Conflict, Security, Peace and Political Violence in Developing World; Democracy and Development Studies; International Political Economy; Human Rights; Comparative Environmental Policies and Politics; North-South Relations; Africa-Asia Relations.

He is a prolific writer who has published extensively over hundreds of publications: including books, articles, chapters in books, and monographs; some of his books are: (Coed.) Peace, Security and Post-conflict Reconstruction in the Great Lakes Region of Africa, Dakar, Senegal: CODESRIA, 2017; (Ed.) Land Reforms and Natural Resource Conflicts in Africa: New Development Paradigms in the Era of Global Liberalization, London, United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2016; Japan-Africa Relations, New York: McMillan- Palgrave, 2010; Who and What Govern in the World of the States: A Comparative Study of Constitutions, Citizenry, Power, and Ideology in Contemporary Politics, Lanham, Maryland: University, 2005.; (Ed.) Liberal Democracy and Its Critics in Africa: Political Dysfunction and the Struggle for Social Progress, United Kingdom, London: Zed Books, 2006; (Ed.) Dynamics and Policy Implications of the Global Reforms at the End of Second Millennium: A Comparative Perspective, Leiden, The Netherlands: The Brill Academic Publishers, 2000; The Dynamics of Economic and Political Relations Between Africa and Foreign Powers: A Study in International Relations, Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1999; Rise of Multipartyism and Democracy in the Global Context: the Case of Africa, Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1998; Political Re-mapping of Africa: Transnational Ideology and the Re-definition of Africa in World Politics, Lanhman, Maryland: University Press of America, 1994; Nationalistic Ideologies, Their Policy Implications and The Struggle for Democracy in African Politics, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1991.

He is member of:

• The College of Expert Reviewers of the European Science Foundation Pool of Reviewers (http://www.esf.org/home.html);
• International Political Science Association; American Political Science Association;
• The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA); and
• The African Association of Political Science and also former Vice President of African Association of Political Science.