This article compares two case studies¹: an export horticulture estate and a schemefunded by an international financial institution in communities based in the delta of the river, in Northern Senegal. These communities are experiencing the boom of commercial horticultural farming and rural labour markets after the 2007-2008 land rush whose effects sediment with and build on previous dynamics of social differentiation. In this article, I challenge the tendency to focus on either narratives emphasizing dualisms such as ‘insiders vs outsiders’ or prioritising economic (and gendered)outcomes of ‘land grabs’. More specifically, I combine feminist and decolonial methodologies which interweave the personal and the political, to demonstrate how, if used together, they can enrich the land grab’ scholarship, especially within political economy.