Ali Niang is an Afropolitan Raleighite, a recreational painter, amateur photographer, Project Manager (PMP) and aspiring environmentalist. An accidental polyglot, he is the product of a West-African stay-at-home mother and career diplomat. Twenty-one Months, his debut novel was inspired in part by his childhood experiences as a boy and teen growing up in the Egyptian capital, Cairo and by his own civic participation and academic disciplines.
The author holds a B.A. in political science with a minor in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a master’s degree in international studies (MIS) from North Carolina State University. As a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Professional Scrum Master (PSM1), he makes his living with a leading communications company. The author’s next literary project is the publication of his first collection of poems titled Letters. An aspiring environmentalist, he is the founder and Executive Director of a small 501©(3) nonprofit organization that advocates benignity toward the environment.
