Sylla, Ndongo Samba

Dr Ndongo Samba Sylla is a Development Economist and Programme and Research Officer at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Office for West Africa. He coordinated the book "Redecouvrir Sankara. Martyr de la liberte" [Rediscovering Sankara. Freedom Martyr] (Exchange & Dialogue 2012) and just published "Le scandale du commerce equitable. Le marketing de la pauvrete au service des riches" [The Fair Trade Scandal: Marketing Poverty to Benefit the Rich] (Harmattan Senegal, 2013). His recent research focused on the history of the word "Democracy."