The Political Economy of the Land Rush in Senegal

Recommended pre-reads:

• DIENG R.S, 2022, The labour of Land, Africa is a Country 19 December 2022 https://africasacountry.com/2022/12/the-labor-of-land

• DIENG R.S, 2023, (FR): Au-delà de la ruée vers les terres africaines, l’enjeu de la main-d’œuvre, The Land Portal, 2 January 2023 https://landportal.org/node/113266

Speaker: Dr Rama Salla Dieng has been a Lecturer in African Studies and International Development at the Centre of African Studies, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh since January 2019. She is a convenor of the DSA Land, Labour and Politics and Development Study Group webinars. Before the University of Edinburgh, Dr. Dieng worked for five years in the Policy Research Department of the African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (UN-IDEP), United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and before that she worked at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Mauritius. Rama has also taught at the Department of Development Studies, SOAS. Rama’s research focuses on land grabbing and agrarian change, feminist political economy of development, labour, care and social reproduction, politics of development in Africa (Senegal and Mauritius), and feminist protests and social movements.

Rama holds an MSc and a PhD in Development Studies from SOAS, University of London and a Double Masters in International Cooperation & Development and Risks Management in Developing Countries, from Science Po Bordeaux- IEP, France. She also holds a Maîtrise in Political Science, Université Montesquieu, Bordeaux, France. Rama is the co-editor of a Special Issue on Agrarian Change, Food Security, Sustainable Development in Senegal and Zimbabwe. She is also the editor of Féminismes Africains: Une histoire Décoloniale (Présence Africaine, Paris, 2021), the co-editor of a collective book on Feminist Parenting, Perspectives from Africa and Beyond (Demeter Press 2020), and the Curator of the Talking Back, African Feminisms in Dialogue. And co-editor of a series on the movies of Safi Faye and Khady Sylla, and the author of a novel (La Dernière Lettre, Présence Africaine Paris 2008). Rama is the Founding Director of the African Feminist Film and Research Festival: CINEFEMFEST – Gëstu Naatal i Jigeen.