Ndeye Debo and I met in Dakar in November 2012 during a conference on governance put on by the organization I was working for. She was a journalist in training at the Senegalese daily newspaper Sud Quotidien. After she introduced herself, I remember saying: “you wrote the article on Felwine Sarr, I love your writing!” We have been in touch since then. (Ndeye has previously published on Africa Is a Country – Ed.) She is now a teacher in Kaffrine, in central Senegal. In this conversation, she tells how her basic feminist activism feeds on her teaching practice, the Senegalese education system, her passion for football and well-being.