Lyn Ossome is Associate Professor and Director of the Makerere Institute of Social Research, and previously was Associate Professor of Political Studies at Wits University and Visiting Presidential Professor at Yale University. Her specialisations are in the fields of feminist political economy and feminist political theory, with research interests in gendered labour, land and agrarian questions, the modern state, and the political economy of gendered violence. Her books include Gender, Ethnicity and Violence in Kenya’s Transitions to Democracy: States of Violence (Lexington Books, 2018) and the co-edited volume, Labour Questions in the Global South (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). She serves on numerous boards and is current President of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa. She is one of the seven editors of Feminist Africa.