Minna Salami

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Publications

AUTHORED BOOKS

Feminist Freedom, An African Vision (Cornell University Press, 2026)
A revised edition of Can Feminism Be African? A Most Paradoxical Question published in 2025, for the US market.

Can Feminism Be African? A Most Paradoxical Question (Harper Collins, 2025)

An exploration of the intersections between feminism and African political philosophy, this book offers a bold rethinking of African feminism and its implications for global change.

Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach For Everyone (Bloomsbury, 2020)

A work that redefines knowledge from a black feminist perspective, offering an alternative to traditional, Eurocentric models of knowledge and power.

The Power Book: What Is It, Who Defines It and Why (Co-author, Ivy Kids/Quarto Group UK, 2019)
An accessible exploration of power, its dynamics, and the role it plays in shaping society, aimed at a broad audience of young people.

Translations (Sensuous Knowledge)
Catalan (Sembra Llibres); Finnish (Schildts & Söderström); German (Matthes & Seitz); Spanish (Temas de Hoy); Swedish (Resonate Editions); Portuguese (African Books Collective).

CONTRIBUTING AUTHOR – BOOK CHAPTERS

• “African Feminist Individuation”, Feminist Formations, Vol. 36, Issue 3 (Winter 2024)
• “Intersections & Interventions: black Feminism in the Age of the Polycrisis”, in Seeds for

Democratic Futures (THE NEW INSTITUTE, 2024)
• “Dispatches from a Time Between Worlds: Crisis and Emergence in Metamodernity”,

Perspectiva Press (2021)

• Contributing author, The Philosophy Queens (Rebecca Buxton and Lisa Whiting, eds., Unbound, 2020)

• Contributing author, 30-Second Feminism: 50 Key Ideas… (Jess McCabe, ed., Quarto Group UK, 2019)

• Contributing author, New Daughters of Africa (Margaret Busby, ed., Myriad Editions, 2019)

• Contributing author, The Art of Nigerian Women (Ben Bosah, ed., 2017)


• Lead author, Big Ideas Can Change the World (Friends of the Earth, 2016)

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