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Ndongo Samba Sylla

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Biography

Ndongo Samba Sylla (PhD) is a Senegalese Development Economist. He is currently a Senior Research and Program Manager at the West Africa office of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (Dakar). He authored The Fair Trade Scandal. Marketing Poverty to Benefit the Rich (Pluto Press & Ohio University Press 2014) and co-authored Africa’s Last Colonial Currency. The CFA Franc Story (Pluto Press 2021). He is a co-editor of Economic and Monetary Sovereignty for 21st century Africa (Pluto Press 2021) and of Revolutionary Movements in Africa. An Untold Story (Pluto Press 2023). He is the editor of Imperialism and the Political Economy of Global South’s Debt (Emerald Publishing 2023). He tweets at @nssylla