Mohammed Alpha Bah, Professor

Retiring summer 2008

Email: bahm@cofc.edu
Office: Maybank 324
Phone: 953-8272

M. ALPHA BAH (Africa, West and North Africa, Islam in Africa) received his Ph.D. from Howard University in 1983. He came to the College of Charleston in the summer of 1986 from Villanova University where he was a Fulbright Scholar in residence for one year. He has taught at Howard University and the University of Liberia.
Among his publications are "The Nineteenth Century Partition of Kissiland and the Contemporary Possibilities for Reunification" in Liberian Studies Journal XII, Journal of Muslim Majority/Minority (1991); and "Legitimate Trade, Diplomacy, and the Slave Trade," in Africana Studies (1993). He is the author of Fulbe Presence in Sierra Leone: A Case History of Twenteith-Century Migration and Settlement Among the Kissi of Koindu (Peter Lange 1998). He is currently working on a history of Charleston-West African connections entitled West Africa-SC/GA Lowcountry Connections: Three Black Charlestonians in Freetown and Monrovia.

Courses:
Pre-Colonial Africa
Modern Africa
Pan Africanism/OAU
West Africa, Low-Country of South Carolina, and Georgia Connections