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Salewa is an Assistant Professor in the Business and Society Program of the Department of Social Science at York University. She is the current Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and Its Diasporas at York University, Canada. She has a PhD in Economics and Social Science Consortium (University of Missouri – Kansas City, 2016). Her research focuses on heterodox approaches to sustainable economic development through natural resources, and monetary theory. She takes a bottom-up approach towards money from the individual level to the central bank. Her interdisciplinary research work mainly focuses on these issues in the Sub-Saharan African region. She co-edited the book, Monetary Policy and Central Banking: New Directions in Post-Keynesian Theory (2012) and has an edited book, COVID-19 and the Response of Central Banks: Coping with Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa (2023).