Dr. Korka Sall is the Academic Director of the Minnesota Studies in International Development, MSID-Senegal. She came back to Senegal after nine years in the U.S. teaching and conducting research at different universities including UMass Amherst, Mount Holyoke College, and Harvard University.
Korka is the French Language Convenor for Feminist Africa’s project on the Politics of Language. She is a passionate scholar, feminist and activist invested in promoting the contributions of African Women in liberatory movements such as Negritude, Harlem Renaissance, Feminisms, and Pan-Africanism. Korka thrives in creating spaces of dialogue for African women to fight gender inequality. She is one of the Coordinators of the African Women’s Millennium Initiative on Poverty and Human Rights (AWOMI), which focuses on Women and Gender Development.
Korka holds an MA and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (May 2021) and her research interests include Caribbean studies, gender studies, feminist studies and African diaspora studies. Her dissertation “Negritude Feminisms: Francophone Black Women Writers and activists in France, Martinique and Senegal from the 1920s to the 1980s. Her scholarship focuses on post-colonial studies, languages and cultures, black studies, and gender and development. She co-published an article on Blackness, Pan-African political consciousness available here.
Korka is the Founder and President of the Association SamaMentor, an organization working to support girl's education and mentorship in Senegal. She is also the Founder of the platform Black Women Directors, a platform dedicated to the wellness and wellbeing Black women in leadership positions in Africa and the Diaspora.