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Sensuous Knowledge audiobook narrated by Robin Miles

April 6, 2020 By MsAfropolitan Leave a Comment

I’m thrilled to share that actor Robin Miles is the narrator of Sensuous Knowledge. Robin is a multiple-award-winning, grammy finalist whose impressive list of book performances include N.K. Jemisin’s “Broken Earth” trilogy, Aminatta Forna’s “Happiness”, Chimamanda Adichie’s “Half of a Yellow Sun”, several bell hooks books, Maaza Mengiste’s “The Shadow King” and Nnedi Okorafor’s “Binti”….

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

New questions for the world, old pleas for black feminism

March 27, 2020 By MsAfropolitan Leave a Comment

A poem by the Somali-British poet, Warsan Shire, goes, “later that nighti held an atlas in my lapran my fingers across the whole worldand whisperedwhere does it hurt?it answeredeverywhereeverywhereeverywhere.” Her words piercingly describe the events of the past few weeks and months. The world hurts everywhere – every region, every nation, every river, every home…

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Filed Under: Decolonisation, feminism, Social Criticism Tagged With: black feminism, covid-19, Sensuous Knowledge

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

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

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

Blue is a feminine colour in Africa

December 1, 2018 By MsAfropolitan 4 Comments

“Blue is a Feminine Color in Africa” From the myth of the goddess Asi of Liberia to women’s ritualistic use of the blue gemstone Lapis Lazuli in Kemet (Ancient Egypt) and the indigo blue Adire of Yorubaland, many historical African representations of the color blue as a powerful color are linked to the female sex….

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The story behind African feminism posts rooted in critical theory, philosophy and mythology

November 23, 2018 By MsAfropolitan 2 Comments

A few weeks ago, I had a phone conversation with the founder of Òrò Àníké, an invigorating space dedicated to exploring pre-colonial African history in a holistic way. We spoke about Lagos life, feminine ancestry, Oyalogy, gender binaries, philosophy, Kemet, African feminist lineage, Afropolitanism.., all my favourite topics in other words. I really enjoyed the…

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Filed Under: Africa, Afropolitanism, Decolonisation, feminism, Interviews, Social Criticism Tagged With: Ancestry, feminism, philosophy

Why Me Too has failed, my Cambridge Union talk

October 26, 2018 By MsAfropolitan 3 Comments

Me Too has lost much of the radical spirit with which it commenced for two key reasons. Firstly, as I argued at the Cambridge Union debate on the topic last week, the movement is now “in the hands of the media, and therefore in the hands of the male establishment who owns the media”. Secondly…

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Filed Under: feminism, Pop Culture, Social Criticism, uncategorized Tagged With: 21st century feminist challenge, Global Feminism, Me Too, sexual abuse

Nigerian feminism – past, present and future perspectives

October 1, 2018 By MsAfropolitan 9 Comments

What is Nigerian feminism? Who does it speak for? Does contemporary Nigerian feminism reflect the realities of all Nigerian women? Does it include the voices and struggles of the masses of women who do not have economic freedom? What are some of the issues Nigerian feminism should include moving forward? In my latest article below,…

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Filed Under: Africa, feminism Tagged With: African feminism, Nigeria, women's issues, writing

The MeToo movement: opportunities and challenges

July 21, 2018 By MsAfropolitan Leave a Comment

This post was originally published in The RSA journal (Issue 1, 2018) with the title “A critical moment for Feminism”. It argues that to truly challenge the status quo, the MeToo movement should encourage a historical and critical lens to hot button feminist issues such as inclusivity, globalisation and gender identity. Image via the RSA’s Medium pages. If…

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Filed Under: feminism, Social Criticism Tagged With: Critical Thinking, debate, feminism, globalisation, inclusivity, Me Too, Tarana Burke, terf, trans

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Feminism. Africa. Popular Culture. Social Criticism.

Hi! I'm Minna Salami, I'm a Nigerian-Finnish and Swedish writer and social critic, and the founder of the multiple award-winning blog, MsAfropolitan, which connects feminism with critical reflections on contemporary culture from an Africa-centred perspective. As a lecturer and keynote speaker, I have spoken at over 300 universities, cultural events and conferences, on five continents. I am the author of "Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone - a collection of thought provoking essays that explore questions central to how we see ourselves, our history, and our world." (Harper Collins US) Read full bio

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