Chikouna Cissé is a lecturer in African History at the University Félix Houphouet Boigny in Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire). He hold a Ph.D. on Migrations et mise en valeur de la Basse Côte d’Ivoire (1920-1960. His field of research also extends to the study of the Jula merchant diaspora in West Africa. Chikouna Cissé is a member of the international team in charge of writing the volume IX of the General History of Africa, on global Africanity. He is also a member of the Indo-European and African Network for the Study of Merchant Diasporas in the Modern Era. Chikouna Cissé is a former fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study (IEA) in Nantes where he has been from October 2012 to June 2013. Since 2021, he has been called upon by the UNHCR as an expert as part of the UNHCR programme on the French-speaking statelessness and nationality course. He is in charge of the Historical Migrations and Formation of Identities in Africa from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Centuries. He is also in charge of the Population Movement and Formation of Identities Axis within the SCALL doctoral school of the UFHB.
