The debate on feminisms in Africa has not finished shaking up the comfort of the patriarchy. All over the African continent and the diaspora, people, in addition to theorizing their definition of feminism make more of it than a one-off fight, it is a way of life. It is a question of breaking with this old preconception that African women are ignorant of feminist struggles. Lecturer Dr. Rama Salla Dieng is one such person who is interested in these struggles, documenting and popularizing them in several languages and on different platforms. She conducts a series of interviews, Talking back: African feminisms in dialogue, at the heart of which various feminist and political experiences are explored at length. Dr Rama Salla Dieng returned to the motivations for this series and the lessons learnt from it. We also talked about parenting during the Covid-19 pandemic, the urgency of reviewing the imposition of gendered characteristics, a possible handling of feminist issues in a socialist political system, the parameters to take into account for the effectiveness of the achievements of women's rights, the much-needed politicization of African youth and the world after Covid 19.
Dr Rama Salla Dieng is a Lecturer in African Studies and International Development and Director of the Africa and International Development Master's Program at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Her research focuses mainly on the political economy of investments in Senegalese horticulture and Senegal’s development policies, Gender and Development, as well as feminisms in Africa. Dr Rama is a member of the Board of Directors of the Development Studies Association in the United Kingdom in charge of the study group on Decolonizing development. She is co-editor of the book Feminist parenting: perspectives from Africa and beyond with around thirty parents from around the world and editor of a series of interviews on Talking back, A series of conversations with African feminists on the platform Africa Is A country and ROAPE, the journal of African political economy. She published a novel, The Last Letter at Présence Africaine in 2008 and has contributed to many collective works.