Mariama Khan

Mariama Khan (born 1977) is a Gambian filmmaker, poet, cultural activist and scholar. She teaches African civilization and Women in African Society at Lehman College in New York.

Life Mariama Khan was born in 1977 to a Senegalese father and a Gambian mother. She grew up in Brikama New Town in the Kombo Central district of The Gambia.

In the Gambia, Khan worked as acting and later director of the Policy Analysis Unit in the Office of the President. President Yahya Jammeh appointed her secretary-general of Gambia's civil service in 2010, though the appointment only lasted a few months. She was then appointed permanent secretary at the Personnel Management Office. Fatty, who was believed to be wrongly accused of shooting at youth, was one of five police officers initially charged with murder after the deaths of three young protestors at an anti-pollution rally in Faraba Banta.

Books Futa Toro: poetry, 2003 (with Bamba Khan) Juffureh : kissing you with hurting lips : poetry, 2004 (With Bamba Khan) Proverbs of the SeneGambia "The Gambia-Senegal Border: Issues in Regional Integration", (Routledge, 2019)

Films Sutura: Rape and Justice in Senegal The Journey Up The Hill.