Senegal

Martha Saavedra

Associate Director
Center for African Studies

Martha Saavedra has been with the Center for African Studies since 1993. She received a PhD and MA in a Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley and a BA in International Studies from Rhodes College. She has taught at St. Mary’s College of California, Ohio University, the...

Reflections on the "Golden Age" of Senegalese Studies at UC Berkeley with Tobias Warner, and a New Poem by Mariama Bâ

April 30, 2025

A portrait photo of Tobias Warner beside a portait photo of Mariama Bâ.Tobias Warner became professor of French and Comparative Literature at UC Davis in 2012 after completing his PhD in Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley under the mentorship of Professor Karl Britto. At Davis he regularly...