Why few women in Senegal speak out about their rapists

By Beth D. Packer, Lecturer in Sociology, Tufts University
Juliana Friend, PhD Candidate in Sociocultural anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

Senegal has a robust history of women’s activism against sexual violence, which led to landmark legislation making rape a criminal offence last year. However, survivors of alleged sexual assault rarely denounce men by name.

This pattern was broken recently by a young woman, Adji Sarr who publicly accused opposition leader Ousmane Sonko of raping her. He was arrested and accused of the rape.

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