Samba Diop is a holder of a PhD degree in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Berkeley.
He taught and did research at: UC Berkeley, UCLA/University of California at Los Angeles, SUNY/State University of New York at Buffalo, Harvard University, SOAS/School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London, University of Oslo.
Diop also taught and did research in Brazil, The Gambia, Nigeria, Japan, India, etc.
He is the author of numerous books and scholarly articles.
He is a part-time researcher at the University of Oslo.