The recent Miss Senegal controversy exposed the epidemic of gender-based violence in the country.
![In Senegal, there is a deep-rooted culture of rape and gendered violence, writes Guaye [Getty Images]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/GettyImages-1336104596.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Marame Gueye is Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Literatures at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. Her writing... has appeared in the Washington Post, Africa is a Country, and elsewhere.
The recent Miss Senegal controversy exposed the epidemic of gender-based violence in the country.
![In Senegal, there is a deep-rooted culture of rape and gendered violence, writes Guaye [Getty Images]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/GettyImages-1336104596.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)