Global Diplomacy Lab

Zourmba Ousmanou has been a career diplomat since 2011. He has worked in the Ministry of External Relations, precisely at the department in charge of European affairs. He is currently First Secretary at the Embassy of Cameroon in Cairo.

In 2013, he attended a Diplomats’ training session organised by the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs ofOffice in Germany.

Since then, in October 2021 he defended a PhD thesis in history, with a focus on colonial heritage and memory issues. Regarding research, he published a paper on Boko Haram in 2014. He also attended a conference in 2019 on heritage issues, with a conference published in MIT reviews.

A full list of his academic papers is available here.