SATANG NABANEH

Satang Nabaneh (LLD, PhD) is an award-winning legal scholar, educator, researcher, and human rights practitioner. Her interdisciplinary work explores the intersection of law and politics within international human rights law, with a focus on human rights in Africa, sexual and reproductive rights and women’s rights, comparative constitutional law, democratization and transitional justice. Her work has been published in journals such as the Politique africaine, Health and Human Rights Journal, International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, African Disability Rights Yearbook, Constitutions of the World, and the yearly I·CONnect-Clough Center Global Review of Constitutional Law. She engages in public scholarship, including contributions to the Conversation and AfricLaw. She is the author of Choice and Conscience: Lessons from South Africa for a Global Debate (PULP, 2023) and has co-edited Sexual Harassment, Law and Human Rights in Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) and The Gambia in Transition: Towards a New Constitutional Order (PULP, 2022). Her forthcoming edited volume is Female Genital Mutilation in Africa: Politics of Criminalization (PULP, 2024). Dr. Nabaneh has been featured in prominent media outlets, including The New York Times, Reuters, Time, and the Council on Foreign Relations’ Think Global Health. She was named one of 10 exceptionally talented African scholars to watch in 2024 by The Africa Report.