Rama Musa

Ramatu "Rama" Musa is a Sierra Leone-born American writer and blogger covering culture, education, foreign affairs, and technology. Born in Sierra Leone in 1987, Musa emigrated to the United States in 1998 to escape the country's “blood diamond” civil war. She was the first student to win the J. William Fulbright fellowship in the history of Fairleigh Dickinson University. She worked for the U.S. State Department in Geneva, Switzerland, prior to living in Jerusalem for one year on a Fulbright scholarship. Musa began her writing career with a cover story on the Millennium Villages Project in West Africa.

Personal

Musa is a direct descendant of Sir Ernest Dunstan Morgan, OBE, KBE, a noted businessman, a philanthropist, and a founding member of Sierra Leone’s Legislative Council, the precursor to the nation’s House of Parliament. She has Islamic and Jewish roots. Her name shares an etymology with Ramatuelle, a commune in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.

External links

Official website
Fulbright feature article, The Times of Israel