MESOPOLHIS is delighted to welcome Abdoulaye Djogo Barry from 1 October 2025 to 30 September 2026.

Abdoulaye Djogo Barry, who holds a doctorate in Information and Communication Sciences (2021), is joining us as part of an individual postdoctoral research project under the scientific direction of Professor Walter Bruyère-Ostells, Scientific Director of the Intelligence Chair at Sciences Po Aix, with the strategic support of Air Force Brigadier General (2S) Serge Cholley, Executive Director of the Chair.

🔎 Project title and summary :

Competing strategies of informational influence in cyberspace in francophone West Africa (2010-2025). A comparative study of the narratives of France, the United States, Russia and China.

This post-doctoral project analyses the way in which the major powers - France, the United States, Russia and China - are using digital spaces to exert influence in French-speaking West Africa between 2010 and 2025.

Using an interdisciplinary approach that crosses information and communication sciences, geopolitics and security studies, The research is based on field surveys, discursive analysis and OSINT methods.

It aims to identify the narrative devices, the vectors of dissemination and the cognitive effects of these strategies on the collective perceptions and cognitive sovereignty of the states in the region.

This project is part of MESOPOLHIS Axis 5 «Contemporary violence, crises and conflict»..

📨 Contact : diogo.barry[at]w-ant.fr