The recent Miss Senegal controversy exposed the epidemic of gender-based violence in the country.
![In Senegal, there is a deep-rooted culture of rape and gendered violence, writes Guaye [Getty Images]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/GettyImages-1336104596.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Marame Gueye
Marame Gueye is Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Literatures at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. Her writing... has appeared in the Washington Post, Africa is a Country, and elsewhere.
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