• Ph.D. in Government, University of Virginia
• M.A. in Public Administration, University of Virginia
  

• Islam
• African Systems of Government
• African Political Thought; Public Policy

• Served as Chairman of African Studies Department, Howard University (1986-1993)

• Books & Monographs
  • Islam in the United States of America (Chicago, Illinois: ABC International, Inc., 1999)
  • A Line in the Sand: Saudi Arabia’s Role in the Gulf War, co-authored with Evan Hendricks (Washington, DC: P.T. Books, 1995)
  • Religious Plurality in Africa: Essays in Honor of John S. Mbiti, co-authored with Jacob Olupona (Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyther, 1993)
  • Islam: Its Relevance Today, co-edited with Henry Thompson (Barrytown, NY: Unification Theological Seminary, 1990)
  • Islam, Christianity and African Identity (Brattleboro, VT: Amana Books, 1984)
  • Reflections on the Human Condition (Lawrenceville, VA: Brunswick Publishing Company, 1984)
  • Ali A. Mazrui: The Man and His Works (Lawrenceville, VA: Brunswick Publishing Company, 1981)
    

• “Religion and the Maintenance of Boundaries: An Islamic View,” chapter 10 in David Miller and Sohail H. Hashmi, (ed.), Boundaries and Justice: Diverse Ethical Perspectives (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2001)
• “American Pluralism, Islam, and the Challenges of Interfaith Dialogue for Muslims on the Campus,” in Victor H. Kazanjian and Peter Laurence (eds.), Education as Transformation – Religious Pluralism, Spirituality: A New Vision for Higher Education in America (New York: Peter Lang, 2000), pp. 159-171
• “Muslim-Jewish Relations in the United States of America: Convergence and Divergence” in Dialogue & Alliance, A Journal of the Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring/Summer, 2000), pp. 100-116
• “Ali A. Mazrui: The Man and His Works” in a compilation by Abdul S. Bemath, The Mazruiana Collection: A Comprehensive Annotated Bibliography of the Published Works of Ali A. Mazrui (Trenton, New Jersey, 1999), pp. 9-40
• “Muslim Community in the United States: Some Issues” in Studies in Contemporary Islam, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Fall, 1999), pp. 57-69
• “Muslim-Christian Relations in Africa: Problems & Prospects” in Kenneth King (ed.), Running, Reporting and Researching Africa (Edinburgh, Scotland: African Studies Center, University of Edinburgh, 1998)
• “Conceptualizing Globalization,” The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Vol. 15, No.3 (Fall, 1998), pp. 129-132
• “Islam in America: An Historical Perspective,” The American Muslim Quarterly, Vol.1, No. 2 (1998), pp. 1-30
• “Scriptural Faith and Ethnicity: Some Lessons from the Islamic Experience” in Paul Peachy, George McLean and John Kromkowski (eds.), Abrahamic Faiths, Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflicts (Washington, D.C.: The Council for Research in Values & Philosophy, 1997), pp. 237-252
• “African Muslims” in David Levinson and Melvin Ember (eds.), American Immigrant Cultures: Builders of a Nation, Volume I (New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 1997), pp. 20-27
• “Seeking the Religious Roots of Pluralism in the United States of America: An American Muslim Perspective” in Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Vol. 34, No. 3 (Summer 1997), pp. 402-417
• “Elijah Muhammad” in John Esposito (ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Modern Islamic World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995)
• “The Islamic Society of North America” in John Esposito (ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Modern Islamic World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995)
• “Islam in the Gambia” in John Esposito (ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Modern Islamic World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995)
• “Ethnic Relations in the Gambia: An Historical Perspective” in Feraidom Shams (ed.), State and Society in Africa (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1995)
• “Christian-Muslim in the United States of America” in Yvonne Y. Haddad and Wadi Z. Haddad (eds.), Christian-Muslim Encounters (Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 1995), pp. 328-341
• “Challenges Facing Christian-Muslim Dialogue in the United States” in Yvonne Haddad and Wadi Haddad (eds.), Christian-Muslim Encounters (Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 1995)
• “Cultural Consequences of Development,” in Ismail Serageldin and June Tabaroff (eds.), Culture and Development in Africa (Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, 1994), pp. 429-446
• “Gambia” in Joel Krieger (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993)
• “Sir Dawda Kairabna Jawara” in Harvey Glickman (ed.), Political Leaders of Contemporary Africa South of the Sahara (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992), pp. 59-100
• “Islam in the United States of America: A Review of Sources” in Michael A. Koszegi and Gordon Melton (eds.), Islam in the United States: A Source Book (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1992), pp. 3-24
• “Convergence and Divergence in an Emergent Community: A Study of Challenges Facing U.S. Muslims,” in Yvonne Z. Haddad (ed.), The Muslims of America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), 236-49
• “Muslim-Christian Relations in Africa” in Kortright Davis and Elias Farajaje-Jones (eds.), African Creative Expressions of the Divine (Washington, D.C.: Howard University School of Divinity, 1991), pp. 181-192
  

• Seven Essays on Islam in America (Chicago, Illinois: Kazi Publications, forthcoming)
• Studies in Gambian Politics (forthcoming)
• State and Society in the Gambia, co-edited with Abdoulaye Saine (forthcoming)
• Kwame Nkrumah: The Man and His Times, co-edited with Akwasi Osei (forthcoming)
  

• Directly Supervised Dissertations; served as member of dissertation/thesis committees; including external examination

Professor Nyang also served as:

• Lead Developer for African Voices Project, Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. (1993-1999)
• Co-Principal Investigator for Muslims in the American Public Square, a project funded by the Pew Charitable Trust and based at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. (1999-2002)
• Member of the Board of the African Studies Association (USA/Canada)
• Vice-President of the American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies (Villanova University)
• Consulted with the United Nations Development Program and World Bank
• Chairman of Africa/International Committee of the Montgomery County
• Member of the Board of the Journal of Islamic Studies (Karachi, Pakistan)

Served on the Editorial Board of the:

• American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (USA)
• Current Bibliography of African Affairs (USA)
• Journal of Asian and African Affairs (USA)
• Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations (Birmingham, UK)
• Journal of Negro Education (Howard University)