Bangura is Researcher-In-Residence at the Center for Global Peace and Assistant Professor of International Relations in the School of International Service at American University, and Director of The African Institution in Washington, D.C. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science, a Ph.D. in Policy Sciences (concentration in Development Economics), a Ph.D. in Linguistics, a Ph.D. in Computer Science, and is working towards a fifth Ph.D. in Mathematics.