Denis-Constant Martin, a graduate of the Institute of Political Studies in Paris and the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations, holds two doctorates, led by Georges Balandier. From 1969 to 2008, he was director of research at the Center for International Studies and Research. Researcher at the center of study of Black Africa of the University of Bordeaux, he teaches political anthropology at Sciences Po Bordeaux and also gave courses at the music department of the University Paris-VIII, but also, among others , in South Africa, Algeria, the United States and Kenya where he founded and directed in 1980, the African Research Institute