Nadine MACHIKOU

Born in 1978 in Bafoussam in Cameroon, Nadine Machikou is an associate professor of political science, university professor and director of the “Geopolitics of Integration in Africa” seminar since September 2012 at the International War College of Yaoundé in Cameroon. His work today focuses on the practical and symbolic expressions of violence, the political and moral economy of emotions, public policies and community integration in Africa. Through the transmission of knowledge, know-how and interpersonal skills, it has largely contributed to raising awareness among senior trainee officers from around twenty countries of the issues, challenges and perspectives of the experiences and trajectories of the processes of rapprochement from above and from below in Africa in connection with security issues. Both in terms of their historicity, their materiality and their effectiveness, these processes were examined and worked on in the context of the production of research work of which she supervised nearly a hundred. This production of knowledge has sometimes given rise to editorial forms with wider distribution. His contribution to training and the production of knowledge is also anchored in the scientific animation of almost all of the ESIG conferences, and in the context of scientific supervision, the presentation of communications or the moderation of panels. . Throughout this journey, she affirms that integration is one of the cornerstones of building more prosperous, secure and resilient African societies. Reflexivity leads her to draw the attention of her trainees to the constraints of capacities, political and economic trajectories at work regarding regional or sub-regional performance in terms of integration.

Her commitment to training and research is also expressed through her investment in the Center for Study and Research in International and Community Law (University of Yaoundé II) of which she was director and in the framework in which she often involved ESIG trainees. She is also co-editor-in-chief of the African Politics magazine and a member of the editorial board of the Global Africa magazine. She was president of the 2019 and 2021 aggregation jury of the “Political Section” section at the African and Malagasy Council for Higher Education (CAMES). She is also: vice-president of the African Association of Political Science since March 2021, president of the “Membership and Participation” Committee at the International Association of Political Science, Guest Professor at the University of Nanterre, of the University of Dauphine, the International Institute of Francophonie of the University of Lyon, the Senghor University of Alexandria and the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam as well as the University of Lomé, Abomey Calavi, Kara, from Abidjan. Her current international scientific collaborations are anchored in the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies where she is a member of the Cluster Excellence Africa Multiple and the “Contending Modernities Project” of Notre Dame University of Indiana (USA).