MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale
MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale
Council on African Studies

Fatoumata Sissoko

Student
Council on African Studies
Academic Year: 2026-27

Fatoumata Sissoko is a current MA student in African Studies at Yale University. She graduated magna cum laude from The College of William & Mary earning her BA in Government and Africana Studies with a concentration in Africa. Her undergraduate academic and scholar-activist work led to her current focus on the interactions between the neocolonial state, institutional mythmaking, and their relationship to both imaginative and physical memoryscapes.