Alphonse Maindo Monga Ngonga is a Congolese political scientist. At the University of Kisangani, he has been a Professor of Political Science, the Director of the Center for Political and Social Research in Africa, and the Honorary Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Administration, and Law. He has also been the Coordinator of the Democracy and Development program at the Goree Institute in Dakar, and he directed the Central African Political Observatory at the Catholic University of Central Africa in Yaoundé. Maindo specializes in the study of political conflicts and wars, conflict resolution, state development and reconstruction, and elections in Africa. Education and positions Maindo was born in Kisangani. In 1990, Maindo graduated from The University of Kisangani with a degree in political and administrative sciences. From 1990 to 1992, he taught at the Institut Maele (fr). From 1992 to 1998 he taught at the Higher Educational Institute of Kisangani (fr), and from 1993 to 1995 at the Kisangani Higher Institute of Medical Techniques (fr). In 1995 he became an Assistant Professor at the University of Kisangani in the Faculty of Social, Political, and Administrative Sciences. In 1997, he was selected as an election scrutineer in the March ballot organized by the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo. Maindo received a grant from the Government of France to study at The Paris-Sorbonne University, where he obtained a graduate diploma in African studies and political science, followed by a doctorate in political science. In 2004, he became a postdoctoral researcher at the Catholic University of Central Africa. In 2006, he began lecturing there, and he was appointed by the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the political science faculty at the University of Kisangani. At the University of Kisangani, Maindo subsequently became Director of the Center for Political and Social Research in Africa, and the Honorary Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Administration, and Law at The University of Kisangani. He also became Coordinator the Democracy and Development program at the Goree Institute and directed the Central African Political Observatory at the Catholic University of Central Africa. Research In 2001, Maindo published the book Voter en temps de guerre (Voting in times of war), with a preface by Herbert F. Weiss. The book concerns the 1997 election in Kisangani in which Maindo had been an auditor, arguing that this election was a rare