Annette Mbaye d’Erneville is a French-speaking Senegalese poet and journalist. She studied in Paris where she earned a degree in journalism as a radio reporter. “The Old Lady” as she is affectionately dubbed today has launched the project of the Henriette Bathily Women’s Museum which was once located on the Gorée island. Throughout her career, this forward-thinking intellectual has written poems on suffering, revolt and love which fundamentally belong to women and Africa.