Haydée Bangerezako is an assistant professor and researcher in modern and contemporary history at the University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar (UCAD), Senegal. She holds an interdisciplinary PhD in Social Studies from the Makerere Institute of Social Studies at Makerere University, where she was a postdoctoral fellow, she holds an MA degree in Anthropology from the University of Witwatersrand. Dr. Bangerezako lectures historical methodology and feminist history at UCAD. Her research interest is in a feminist critique of the conceptual aspects of history writing and narratives, as well as its decolonization focusing on the state, gender and mediumship. She is currently completing her PhD thesis as a manuscript on history writing in Burundi and has published in the MISR Review “Indirect Writing and the Construction of Burundi’s History,” (2018), “The Politics of Indigeneity: Land Restitution in Burundi,” (2016). She has upcoming publications on an oral history state project in Burundi, as well as feminist movements in Senegal. She is currently researching female priestesses and their shrines to study the relationship between mediumship and the political. She is a 2022 recipient of fellowships with the Next Generation Social Science Research Council in Africa Fellowship Program and African Humanities Program.