Rama Salla Dieng, PhD, 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 socioeconomic 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 and then as a research fellow at 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 published by Gender Links called Polygamy: At the Heart of the Matter (2009) as well as to an edited volume called Democracy and Development: Perspectives of Young African Researchers (2013) published by l’Harmattan.