Napoleon Bamfo
Professor Emeritus
- Ph.D.
University of Georgia
Teaching/Research:
Dr. Napoleon Bamfo joined Valdosta State University as a member of the Public Administration
and Political Science faculty from Mississippi State University in 1993. He had taught earlier at
the University of Maine in Orono. His teaching interests have been in Public Administration,
Political Science, and Comparative Politics, concentrating in Africa Politics. He has taught
several courses in Public Administration including Public Budgeting and Finance, Human
Resource Management and Organization Behavior. Lately, he has been teaching Financial
Administration for Government and Non-Profit Organizations at the doctoral level.
He has written several book chapters including the Encyclopedia of Malcolm X, but his research
has focused mainly on African politics. He has published articles in the Journal of Modern
African Studies, African and Asia, and the Proceedings of Georgia Political Science Association.
Area of Concentration:
- Public Administration
Selected Published Works:
- “Can We Make the Case for the ‘Good Coup:’ Evidence from Guinea Bissau, Mauritania,
Guinea, and Niger.” in the Proceedings of the Georgia Political Science Association.
- “The Menace of Secession in Africa and Why Governments Should Care: The Disparate
Cases of Katanga, Biafra, South Sudan, and Azawad.” in the Global Journal of Human
Social Sciences.