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Sensuous Knowledge – launching a book in a pandemic

March 19, 2020 By MsAfropolitan 1 Comment

It is almost exactly one week since the World Health organisation declared a coronavirus pandemic. It’s as though we are living in a World War. This feeling hit me strongly when Nigeria closed its borders to UK flights, which was well overdue, but nevertheless left me with a piercing sense of estrangement. Certainly, these are…

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Filed Under: Africa, Afropolitanism, Decolonisation, feminism, Pop Culture, Sensuous Knowledge, Social Criticism Tagged With: Sensuous Knowledge

The missing feminist politics of the cyclical

March 16, 2020 By MsAfropolitan 2 Comments

If women had power parity the notion of the cyclical would be of central importance to how we structure everything—our politics, economics, laws, media, education, and policy. The cyclical is a natural measure of temporality for women as it is encoded into our bodies. The cyclicality within our bodily functions prevents us from forgetting, in…

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Filed Under: feminism, Social Criticism Tagged With: coronavirus, covid-19, cyclical, feminist, politics, temporality

What to do when everything seems to be falling apart? Covid-19 and more.

March 2, 2020 By MsAfropolitan 2 Comments

It’s increasingly clear that most people are dissatisfied with the governing of the world. Even those who can’t articulate exactly what disturbs them know intuitively that we’re on the wrong path. The majority of people want governments to preserve the planet. They want to be less overworked. They want to co-exist and accept others’ differences…

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Filed Under: Decolonisation, feminism, Social Criticism Tagged With: covid-19, IMF, world bank

Blackness as a character in Queen & Slim

February 20, 2020 By MsAfropolitan 3 Comments

Steamy sex and clashing protests. Is the overlapping of a sex scene and a protest scene halfway through Melina Matsoukas’s film Queen & Slim morally correct? Unimpressed reviewers don’t seem to think so. The connecting thread in critical pieces about the movie, some deeply engaging, is the view that juxtaposing these two particular scenes was…

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Filed Under: Africa, Afropolitanism, Decolonisation, Pop Culture Tagged With: blackness, Fela Kuti, melinamatsoukas, queen & slim

The Mother Instinct

February 2, 2020 By MsAfropolitan Leave a Comment

The Mother Instinct is not only a source of collective subjectivity and self-regard, but it is also a source of individual self-love. When seen from a feminist perspective, yes, the Mother Instinct helps you love and nurture yourself in a maternal way, but it also urges you to protect and stand up for yourself with agency and personhood.

Filed Under: feminism, Pop Culture, Social Criticism Tagged With: Mother Instinct, Radical Feminism

What quality do we need for feminist change in the future?

January 11, 2020 By MsAfropolitan 2 Comments

Happy New Year! I’m especially excited about two things in 2020. Firstly, the 10th anniversary of my blog on 16 March. Then three days later, on 19 March, the UK book launch for Sensuous Knowledge, my debut collection of interwoven essays that centre womanhood, African Studies, black feminism, philosophy, personal narrative, myth, art and culture…

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Filed Under: Decolonisation, feminism, Social Criticism Tagged With: conscientious feminism, Global Feminism, Sensuous Knowledge

Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone – Cover Reveal

December 19, 2019 By MsAfropolitan Leave a Comment

In Sensuous Knowledge, Minna Salami draws on Africa-centric, feminist-first and artistic traditions to help us rediscover inclusive and invigorating ways of experiencing the world afresh.

Filed Under: Africa, Afropolitanism, Decolonisation, feminism, Pop Culture, Social Criticism Tagged With: Sensuous Knowledge

Solidarity Statement – Sex for Grades in African Universities

November 11, 2019 By MsAfropolitan Leave a Comment

The African Feminist Initiative has released a solidarity statement following the awareness raised by Nigerian journalist, Kiki Mordi’s (pictured), brave and important documentary, Sex for Grades. I post the statement below. Sex for Grades: Solidarity Statement By African Feminist Initiative We are African feminist scholars and feminist scholars of Africa, working in institutions both on…

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Filed Under: uncategorized Tagged With: African feminism, African women, sex for grades, womens rights

Reclaiming Eros in patriarchy

July 18, 2019 By MsAfropolitan 4 Comments

I recently did an interview with the Demented Goddess magazine, a polysexual and multi-ethnic magazine dedicated to the untamed feminine. The feature is titled Unspeakable Joy – an erotic conversation with Minna Salami and I’m reposting it below. It is sort of part II to one of the most popular posts on Ms Afropolitan titled,…

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Filed Under: Africa, Decolonisation, feminism, Social Criticism Tagged With: Eros, eroticism, Mythology, patriarchy, Yoruba

Stereotypical portrayals of African women in the media

May 13, 2019 By MsAfropolitan 1 Comment

My TEDx Talk has become a book! It’s only available in Spanish for now with a foreword by Raquel Lainde. As I revisited the talk, it occurred to me that I’ve not published it here on the blog by which it is inspired. The talk conceptualised three key stereotypical and limiting representations of African women…

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Filed Under: Africa, feminism, Pop Culture, Social Criticism Tagged With: feminism, instagram, Marriage, motherhood, pop culture, stereotypes, womanhood

Why I’m hosting a new philosophy book club at Waterstones

March 16, 2019 By MsAfropolitan 9 Comments

In March 2015, I wrote an article for the Guardian titled “Philosophy has to be about more than white men” in which I argued that the white-western-male bias in philosophical studies in the UK was detrimental to the study of philosophy, which should investigate all human experience. “We should not dismiss white, western, or male…

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Filed Under: Africa, Decolonisation, events, feminism, Pop Culture, Social Criticism Tagged With: Ideas, MsAfropolitan Book Club

What is the role of family?

March 9, 2019 By MsAfropolitan 2 Comments

This article was originally posted on CNN Style where it was titled The Western concept of family needs to move with the times Nothing has made me reflect on the meaning of family as much as loss. In the space of three years, I lost three of the people that I have loved the most:…

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bell hooks is for everybody

March 8, 2019 By MsAfropolitan 1 Comment

It is with great pleasure that I dedicate this year’s International Women’s Day post to bell hooks, a feminist writer, theorist and critic whose work has inspired, educated and comforted me in equal measure. I first encountered bell hooks’s writing in my university library in Sweden and I must admit that I was not instantly…

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International Women’s Day at the UN

March 4, 2019 By MsAfropolitan Leave a Comment

I’m delighted to be marking International Women’s Day at the UN’s WFP head quarters where I’ll be a guest speaker addressing the women’s struggle and feminist movement. The event will be opened by the WFP Executive Director (David Beasley) and closed by the FAO Deputy Director General (Helena Semedo).  I’ll be sharing the stage with…

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An African feminist analysis of Marvel’s Black Panther

February 25, 2019 By MsAfropolitan 4 Comments

This article was originally posted on The Guardian where it was titled Black Panther deserves an Oscar – but is it a feminist film? No way. Next Sunday, Marvel’s Black Panther will compete for the best picture award at the Oscars. If it wins, it will not only be a first-time victory for a superhero movie, it…

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Filed Under: uncategorized Tagged With: African feminism, Black Panther, popular culture

Preliminary notes on the spectre of the Spectacle

December 4, 2018 By MsAfropolitan 1 Comment

Just like the halo around the moon is not the moon, the spectre of the Spectacle is not the Spectacle. It is merely a simulacrum of it, a distillation of the pomp and ceremony that revolves around the Spectacle. Yet it is the closest we can get to the Spectacle itself. So we obsess about…

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