Professor Ghazali Bello Abubakar, Ph.D.

Professor Ghazali Bello Abubakar is a distinguished scholar and academic administrator, currently serving as the Dean of the Faculty of Social and Management Sciences, and Executive Director of a proposed Center for Global Political and Strategic Analysis- Nigeria (CGPSA-Nigeria) at Sokoto State University, Nigeria, where he is also a Full Professor of Political Science (Middle East and Asian Studies). He is a full-time faculty member in the Department of Political Science and the Postgraduate Coordinator of the department.

Prof. Abubakar earned his Ph.D. in International Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India, between 2009 and 2014. Since completing his doctoral studies, he has devoted his academic career to exploring key areas in international and comparative politics, with special interest in India–Nigeria relations, South and East Asian political systems, democratisation processes, human rights and gender politics, electoral dynamics, political violence, and the political developments of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

He began his academic career as a Lecturer II at Bayero University, Kano, and later joined Sokoto State University, where his commitment to teaching, research, and mentorship led to steady professional advancement — from Lecturer I, to Senior Lecturer in 2018, and ultimately to Professor in 2023. In recognition of his growing global academic influence, he was appointed as an International Visiting Fellow at the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy in 2014.

Throughout his career, Prof. Abubakar has taught and supervised a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Political Science and International Relations, earning distinction for his dynamic teaching style and mentorship. His scholarship has been widely published in respected peer-reviewed journals, including:

“Tidal Phase of Democratic Transition in Tunisia: A Comparative Study with Taiwan’s Democratization,” published in the Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences; “Morocco and Transition to Democracy: The Enduring Struggle,” published in History Research; “Islamization and Democratic Transition in Post-Revolution Egypt,” published in the International Journal of Social Sciences and Economic Review; “European Union Democracy Promotion in the South of the Mediterranean: The Case of Morocco,” published in the Journal of Education, Arts, and Humanities.

In 2019, he published a major study titled “Regionalization and Ethno-Religious Politics: Challenges to Democratic Transition in Nigeria,” in the Multidisciplinary Journal of the Islamic University in Uganda.

His current research includes investigations into Chinese loans and African economic development, the Islamic concept of Umma and its contrast with Western universalism in international relations, and Indo–Africa relations as a framework for addressing 21st-century global challenges.

Prof. Ghazali Bello Abubakar continues to contribute to scholarship, governance, and capacity building in the field of political science, offering intellectual leadership that bridges African, Asian, and global perspectives on democracy and international relations.