RAMA SALLA DIENG

Senegal

Gender Issues

Rama Salla Dieng, is a Senegalese writer, academic and activist. She is currently a Lecturer in Africa and International Development at the Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh. Her PhD thesis provided a feminist political economy analysis of selected agricultural investments and their socio-economic outcomes in Northern Senegal during what has been dubbed “the land rush” between 2008 and 2017. Between 2010 and 2015, she worked successively as a Research Assistant then a Research Fellow in the Policy Research Division the African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP) based in Senegal. Rama is also a feminist activist who has collaborated with several feminist organisations on agrarian change, gender and development, and social reproduction. Rama has published a novel La Dernière Lettre with Présence Africaine in 2008, and has contributed to an Edited volume by Gender Links on Polygamy: At the heart of the Matter (2009), and an edited volume on Democracy and Development: Perspectives of Young African Researchers (2013) published by l’Harmattan. She is the Lead Editor of a collective anthology on Re-thinking Feminist Parenting: Perspectives from Africa and Beyond, Demeter Press, 2020.
Rama is also passionate about promoting alternative narratives on Africa through creative writing or short videos, hence her convening of a series of interviews on current African issues: ‘30 minutes with …’ in which she interviews policymakers, scholars, artists and ordinary citizens about current African issues.

More on my website: http://www.salladieng.com/