Satang Nabaneh, PhD is an award-winning Gambian legal scholar, educator, researcher, and human rights practitioner. She currently serves as the Director of Programs and Research Professor of Law at the University of Dayton Human Rights Center. She has worked for a number of organizations, including the Centre for Human Rights, the University of Pretoria, and the Female Lawyers Association-Gambia (FLAG). In The Gambia, Dr. Nabaneh co-founded Think Young Women (TYW), which empowers young women through education and advocacy, and founded Law Hub Gambia, a research institute dedicated to advancing legal knowledge and human rights. She authored Choice and Conscience: Lessons from South Africa for a Global Debate (PULP, 2023) and co-edited The Gambia in Transition: Towards a New Constitutional Order (PULP, 2022) and Sexual Harassment, Law and Human Rights in Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023). Her forthcoming edited volume is Female Genital Mutilation in Africa: Limits 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.
Dr. Nabaneh holds an LLB from the University of The Gambia, LLM and LLD from the University of Pretoria and PhD from the University of Washington. She was named one of 10 exceptionally talented African scholars to watch in 2024 by The Africa Report.
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