Senegalese Freelance Journalist, film Critic, communications consultant and poet.

Born in Tivaouane (Senegal), Bassirou NIANG is both a (cultural) journalist and a communication consultant. With more than fifteen years of professional experience, he holds a DES in Communication at Issic and a Certificate of Specialization in Modern and Contemporary French Literature (fairly-well-UCAD), a Certificate on the challenges of sub-regional integration in West Africa (Cesti-International Institute of Journalism in Berlin).

He has collaborated with many dailies and magazines in Senegal and elsewhere including Le Matin, Walf Quotidien, Émergence Plus, Notre Afrik (Belgium) for which he was one of the correspondents in Dakar for two years.

Member of the African Federation of Film Critics (FACC) since 2007, as a film critic, he is one of the editors of the sites www.africine.org and www.imagesfrancophones.org as well as of the specialized magazines SENCINÉ and AWOTELE. He has also participated in cinematographic meetings on the continent and was a member of the jury for criticism at the Carthage FilmFest 2016 and that of the Saint-Louis International Documentary Film Festival (FIFD 2019, in Senegal). He was part of the Organizing Committee of RECIDAK 2018, in particular the Press Commission.

His professional life has been marked by services in development organizations (Food and Agriculture Organisation - FAO, United Nations), in cultural structures (Biennale 2012 through the communication agency Osmose) or on behalf of the Goethe Institut Senegal and German television. WDR / ARTE.

In addition, Bassirou NIANG published, in 1994, in the prestigious Swiss literary review [VWA] of La-Chaux-de-Fonds, a collection of thirteen pieces (poems) under the title of "Sillon d'un moi-même" and participated in an anthology - "Season of love and anger" - published by the NEAS in 1998 and having gathered at the time the texts (poems and short stories) of twenty young authors from Burkina-Fao, Mali, Niger and Senegal, under the direction of Boubacar Boris Diop and Hélène Bezanson. In 2011, he published an essay under the title "Identitât (en), Que Sum?" in the Catalog of German and Senegalese artists called "Bastard Project Dakar, Goethe Institut Senegal, 2011".

In 2019, he is a member of the official jury of the 6th Documentary Film Festival of Saint-Louis, Senegal, chaired by Ousmane William Mbaye, alongside Aïcha Thiam, Fatima Fall and Saliou "Alibeta" Sarr.