Region: Senegal
Anta Babacar Ngom
Anta Babacar Ngom Diack is a Senegalese political leader, entrepreneur, and public servant whose career bridges business leadership, democratic reform, and women’s empowerment across West Africa. Born and raised in the suburbs of Dakar, she spent over a decade building and scaling one of West Africa’s largest agro-industrial enterprises, driving regional food sovereignty and creating thousands of jobs for young people from low-income communities. As Franchisee and CEO of KFC Senegal, she pioneered inclusive employment models—launching the first franchise location operated entirely by women and another designed to empower persons with disabilities, proving that business can be a powerful engine for social change. In 2024, she made history as the first Senegalese…
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Ibrahima Amadou Niang
Ibrahima "Ibou" Amadou Niang is the Team Manager for the Global Initiative for the Restitution of African Heritage at Open Society Foundations. He is also a creative activist, researcher, and published author. For over ten years he has been striving to advance democracy and human rights across Africa. A native of Senegal, he has worked on social justice issues as an NGO activist, a democracy and electoral assistance provider, a grantmaker, a political writer, and translated poet. As a creative activist, Ibou uses his power of words and imagery to move people from awareness to action. These messages are disseminated across the world to a diverse audience through his books…
More InformationEpisode 28: 2018 World Fellow Ibrahima Amadou Niang
Ibrahima Amadou Niang, an activist, poet, and author from Senegal, discusses his passion for writing and his work promoting democracy in Africa.
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