My name is Nagmeldin Karamalla-Gaiballa. I’m a Polish Sudanese original political scientist, economist, poet, writer, and Social-cultural activist. I have more than 20 years’ experience in social and economic research, especially in the context of Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and the Gulf States. combining field and academic qualifications (MENA, Africa, Europe) with a wide range of international and regional Organizations as well as CSOs and NGOs.
Academic carrier
In my Academic career, I expanded my knowledge and contributed to the global discourse on migration, climate change, and the political economy of civil wars. Currently, I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Research Centre of Culture and Art of Asia and Africa, where I give lectures about Contemporary Africa: Opportunities and Challenges, Oriental Language and Culture – Arabic. Also visiting Post-Doctoral at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw, where I give lectures about the Political economy of civil wars in Sudan, South Sudan, and in particular, the conflict in Darfur and migration in Sudan and South Sudan, and as a visiting Assistant Professor in Faculty of Theology at Cardinal Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Poland, where I give a number of lectures about Sudan and ethnic conflicts, Islamization of northern, central, and eastern Africa. Also, I hold the title of Rector’s Plenipotentiary for Cultural Diversity, emphasizing the importance of inclusivity and multicultural understanding.
I am the author of the flowing book Obstacles to Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa: Key Challenges Seen Through a Sudanese Lens (2025). Analyses the failure factors of democratic experiences in Sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on Sudan. Utilises interviews and surveys, as well as historical comparative analysis and iterative hypothesis testing. Highlights the difficulties in building democratic institutions in post-colonial sub-Saharan African states. The Conflicts in Darfur. Causes, Motives, Possible Solutions, and Sudan: Conflict in Darfur (2003-2011), 2017. In this book, I present the conflict in Darfur in the context of the scarcity of natural resources such as water and vegetation and highlight its main cause, the region’s economic backwardness.
Diplomatic experience
I have proven experience in the functionality of diplomatic missions and international organizations, intergovernmental bodies, or high-level government officials, as well as in developing, analyzing, and reviewing reports for senior government officials. As well as in the interpretation and direct translation of senior government officials, princes, sheiks, heads of government, ministers, heads of parliaments, and others. The fluency of three languages from different language groups, Arabic, English, and Polish, permits me to collaborate cross-culturally.
Civil liberties and human rights
As a defender of civil liberties and human rights in my homeland land, Sudan, I have been part of movements for the restoration of democracy in Sudan for the last three decades. I played a leading role in the Sudanese Diaspora movement against Gen. Omar al-Bashir’s usurpation of power in 1989. We were among those Sudanese Diaspora activists who resisted the illegal military rule right from the day General al-Bashir took over in 1989 and continued the struggle throughout his thirty years.
I also actively participate in social, cultural, and sports events, hold meetings with children and school youth and engage in press, radio, and television interviews on Radio Tok FM, Polish Radio Program III, TVN (Polish TV channel), Polsat TV, and the Newsweek Poland, as well as the Rzeczpospolita and Gazeta Wyborcza newspapers.
Professional organizations
I expand cross-cultural collaboration through my membership in professional organizations including the Polish Association of Political Science, the International Institute of Civil Society, the Polish Africanist Society, the Polish Institute of World Art Studies, the Euro-Africa Foundation Council, and the Southern Connect Foundation Council.