Ms. Onalenna Selolwane
Executive Committee Member of the Mosadi Khumo Socio Economic Empowerment Forum for Women and member of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP)
Dr. Onalenna Selolwane is Executive Committee Member of Mosadi Khumo, an organization committed to women’s inclusion in Botswana in the context of the SDGs and the 2030 Agenda. She is also a member of the Committee for Development Policy (CDP). She is former Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Sociology, University of Botswana. She was a consultant for the Botswana National Framework for Sustainable Development and African Union’s Africa Agenda 2063. Dr. Selolwane was one of the editors of the African Sociological Review and has published extensively in areas of governance, electoral politics, agrarian studies, urban economies, ethnicity, gender, poverty and development policy analysis. She served on the Executive Committee of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), was founder and President of the Emang Basadi Women’s Association and has served as consultant in the development of government policies and programmes for women, youth, rural development, agriculture, poverty reduction and crime prevention. Dr. Selolwane holds a master’s degree in development studies from the University of Sussex and a doctorate degree in development studies from the University of East Anglia.