In this episode of the Food Lovers' Elective, Chatham University Food Studies graduate students Maris Wilson and Eve Jaggers talk with Alieu B Sanneh about groundnut production and consumption in The Gambia.

Alieu B Sanneh is originally from The Gambia. After completing his undergraduate education in Political Science at the University of The Gambia in 2014, Sanneh moved to the United States to pursue graduate education. He completed his master's degree in Political Science at the Universsity of Missouri-St. Louis in 2017 and went further to pursue a doctorate in Political Science at the same institution, successfully defending his dissertation in January of 2021. His academic interests include elections, ethnic politics, and voting behavior in Africa. He is also interested in the study of human rights in Africa.

His dissertation examines ethnicity, issue voting, and regime change in The Gambia's 2016 presidential election: https://irl.umsl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2060&context=dissertation. Other published work includes a study examining the perceptions of high school students on the practice of FGM in The  Gambia: https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijgo.13812.

Aside from his academic interest in conducting research and teaching, Sanneh is also a strong advocate of multi-cultural education. Over the years, he has successfully organized many study abroad programs to Senegal and The Gambia with Juniata College. These programs offer students concrete and practical first-hand experiences about the politics and culture of these African countries.