Farida Dzifa Alabo
Strategic Counsel
African Writer and Historian
For over twenty years, Farida has advised institutions and operators across Africa and the Middle East on strategy, stakeholder engagement, and the realities of politically sensitive markets.
Her advisory work has included mandates for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Mastercard Foundation, Tullow Oil, USAID, the UN World Food Programme, Oxfam, and NEXIM Bank.
Farida writes historical African fiction examining how power moves through archives, language, memory, and inheritance.
She is the author of The Gold Paradox, currently being edited by Cornerstones Literary Consultancy, and is working on her second novel, The African Scientist.