Baba Sillah, work situate him at the intersection of Agrarian Societies, Globalization, Political Governance, Natural Resource Management, Large-scale Land Acquisitions, Political Ecology and the politics and social complexities of depeasantization.

He worked in the Liberian government as Special Assistant to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and prior as Director of Human Resources at the Ministry of Information, Culture Affairs and Tourism. He is also a member of the Japan African Studies Association, KASA Sustainability, and the Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South (CASAS).

Baba is pursuing a PhD in Global Studies, in the Graduate Program in Global (GPGS) at Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan. His doctoral research investigates the history, socio-cultural and political economy of Agrarian Change in Liberia with specificity on the subsistence economy of smallholder rice farmers, and the development of intentional national policies, programs and institutions to address Agrarian transformations.

BA: Political Science, African Methodist Episcopal University (AME)

MA: Global Studies, Sophia University