Dr. Jean-Jacques Sène is a Senegalese national who has studied, lived and worked in Japan, France, and the Netherlands before coming to the United States 10 years ago. His scholarly work focuses on the relations between political power and mythological thinking (political dogmatizing), sustainable development in West Africa, modern African history, and Afro-Asian relations. He is trained and weathered in the management of mass education projects in multicultural contexts. Dr. Sène teaches at Chatham University and is a research associate at Pitt.