Dr Rama Dieng
Dr Rama Salla Dieng is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the Nelson Mandela School, researcher, academic and writer interested in analysing economic and social transformation in Africa. She is currently a Lecturer in African Studies and International Development at the University of Edinburgh, and Associate Researcher of IFAN/LARTES, University Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal. Before the University of Edinburgh, Rama worked for five years in Policy Research at the African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP), United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and before that she worked at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Mauritius. Rama also taught at the SOAS Department of Development Studies and Centre of African Studies and was a Mo Ibrahim Foundation Governance and Development in Africa PhD Scholar. Rama serves on the boards of the Development Studies Association – UK (DSA-UK) and the African Studies Association – UK (ASA-UK).
Research Interests: Political Economy and Governance of Land and Labour; Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Agri-food value chains in West Africa; Policy-Making and the Policy-Research nexus; Gender and Development; Care and Social Reproduction in Africa; Feminisms and social movements in Africa.
- DIENG Rama Salla,(2023) From Yewwu Yewwi to #FreeSenegal: Class, Gender and Generational Dynamics of Radical Feminist Activism in Senegal, Politics & Gender
- DIENG Rama Salla,(2022) Introduction (Co-author): Agrarian Change, Food Security, Migration and Sustainable Development in Senegal and Zimbabwe, Africa Development Journal, CODESRIA
- DIENG Rama Salla, (2022) Article (Author): ‘Adversely Incorporated yet Moving up the Social Ladder?’: Labour Migrants Shifting the Gaze from Agricultural Investment Chains to ‘Care Chains’ in Capitalist Social Reproduction in Senegal , Africa Development Journal, CODESRIA
- DIENG Rama Salla, “Land Grabbing’ and the Politics of Evidence - the Case of Senegal.” Africa insight 46.4 (2017): 25–40. Print.
- DIENG Rama Salla, (October 2021), Féminismes Africains: Une Histoire Décoloniale, Présence Africaine , Paris
- DIENG Rama Salla & O’REILLY, Andrea (April 2020), Feminist Parenting: Perspectives from Africa and Beyond, Demeter Press , Canada (Peer-reviewed book)
- DIENG Rama Salla (2016), “Book Review: Ndèye Sokhna Guèye (Ed.) (2015), Mouvements Sociaux Des Femmes Au Sénégal.” Agrarian South 2016: 126–128. Web.
- DIENG Rama Salla (2023), Emancipation that costs Servitude, Africa is a Country
- DIENG Rama Salla (2023), Blackness, Pan-African Consciousness and Women’s Political Organising through the Magazine AWA, African Arguments (with Korka Sall)
- DIENG Rama Salla (2023), The Land doesn’t lie, Africa is a Country
- DIENG Rama Salla (2022), The Labour of Land, Africa is a Country
- Editor of Talking Back: African Feminisms in Dialogue on AfricaIsACountry and ROAPE (the Review of African Political Economy)
- Co-Editor: The work of film directors Safi Faye and Khady Sylla (with Tabara Korka Ndiaye)