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My take on the sex robot debate

March 26, 2018 By MsAfropolitan 1 Comment

Considering how likely it is that owning a sex robot will be increasingly commonplace within the next ten to twenty years, I’m concerned that there is so little critical reflection on what male sex robots might mean for women. Almost all the news and commentary is about female sex robots, and how they’ll apparently make…

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Filed Under: feminism, Pop Culture, seven, Social Criticism Tagged With: artificial intelligence, Bina48, feminism, futurism, philsoophy, robot Sophia, robots, science, sex, sex robots

7 popular posts about African feminism

March 16, 2017 By MsAfropolitan 1 Comment

It’s exactly seven years today since MsAfropolitan was launched . In the time since, I’ve published over 350 articles (where did I find the time?) and this site has received half a million visits and tens of millions of hits yearly (thank you!). There are 3530 comments and a similar engagement on social media. Again, thanks for being such dynamic readers, I…

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Seven characteristics an empowered woman has. Psychology matters.

February 2, 2017 By MsAfropolitan 7 Comments

“Who is the empowered woman, and what’s your opinion on the use of the word ’empowered’ as a marketing tool?” In a recent interview with She Leads Africa, I was asked the above question and it made me reflect further on a theme that has always been important in my writing. Empowerment was also the…

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Filed Under: feminism, seven Tagged With: Empowerment

7 films directed by African women to see at Film Africa

October 28, 2015 By MsAfropolitan Leave a Comment

The fifth edition of the Royal African Society’s annual film festival, Film Africa, is taking place on the 30 Oct – 8 Nov in London. Film Africa celebrates the best African cinema with a wide-ranging film programme. This year, over 60 films from 26 African countries will be screened. As one of the Friends of Film Africa, I have selected seven…

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Filed Under: Africa, feminism, Pop Culture, seven Tagged With: African feminism, African Film, Afrocentric, Female Directors, Film Africa, gender, identity

7 non-fiction books African feminists should read

September 27, 2015 By MsAfropolitan 2 Comments

African feminists, that is African women who are feminists, should not only read books by other African women. From my Afropolitan point of view, our reading should be cosmopolitan, we should enjoy books about all kinds of topics from anywhere in the cosmos. That is how you expand your mind, and not by repeatedly reading one genre. However,…

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Filed Under: Africa, feminism, Pop Culture, seven Tagged With: African Books, African feminism, African literature, African women non-fiction, African women writers, Awa Thiam, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Margaret Busby, Molara Ogundipe-Leslie, Nawal El Saadawi, Oyeronke Oyewumi, winnie mandela

7 ways that women are oppressed without knowing it

March 8, 2015 By MsAfropolitan 14 Comments

I will live but that is all that I will do for patriarchy, is my conscientious feminist motto. It is not always an easy task for women, however, because society constantly tries to diminish feminist consciousness by encouraging women to redefine rather than, remove, oppression. For instance, rather than embolden legal action against rape, women are encouraged to…

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Filed Under: feminism, seven, Social Criticism Tagged With: #IWD, conscientious feminism, feminism, gallery, international women's day, International Women's Month, oppression, women

7 South African rebel women artists – in memory of Miriam Makeba

March 4, 2015 By MsAfropolitan Leave a Comment

Today, 4 March, is the birthday of the unforgettable Miriam Makeba. To honour her memory I am posting a selection of my favourite songs by seven sensational South African singers who, like Makeba, embody/embodied the spirit of feminist pan-Africa and the African femme fatale.  Pata Pata!  Busi Mhlongo “Umoya ma-Afrika”  Brenda Fassie – “Vuli Ndlela” Lebo Mathosa –…

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Filed Under: Africa, feminism, Pop Culture, seven Tagged With: African feminism, African women, African women artists, Brenda Fassie, Busi Mhlongo, Dolly Rathebe, Lebo Mathosa, Miriam Makeba, Simphiwe Dana, South Africa, Thandiswa Mazwai

Seven things that women want in Africa’s future

May 21, 2014 By MsAfropolitan 11 Comments

This week, more than 3000 delegates are at the annual meetings of the African Development Bank (AfDB) in Kigali discussing new strategies to tackle poverty, underdevelopment, and put their weight behind global schemes that ensure Africa’s progress. To mark the occasion, UN Women Executive Director, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, published an OpEd today titled Women’s Role in the Next 50…

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Filed Under: feminism, seven Tagged With: Africa, African feminism, African women, African Women's Decade, feminism, gender, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Women, women's issues

7 great novels by African women writers

March 20, 2014 By MsAfropolitan 22 Comments

“In the stories we tell ourselves, we tell ourselves,” said Michael Martone rightly. We also read ourselves in the books we read, or at least in those books that we cherish. For this reason, one of my 2014 resolutions was to return to a favourite pastime, namely reading fiction. For some years my reading life…

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Filed Under: feminism, Pop Culture, seven Tagged With: African feminism, African Feminist fiction, Afropolitan, Americanah, fiction, Ghana Must Go, literature, Memoey of Love, ReadWomen2014, Shadow of Imana, Sula, We Need New Names, women

7 tips for African women bloggers

March 8, 2014 By MsAfropolitan 13 Comments

This is a follow up to a previous post “Why African women should blog” Happy women’s day! Sticking to my tradition of posting a “Seven” series blog every 8 March, this year I’m dedicating the slot to something that is at the heart of this blog, which is to encourage more women in the continent and diaspora…

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Filed Under: feminism, seven Tagged With: African women bloggers, African women writers, digital feminism, digital wave, feminism

His idea of beauty: Interview with Terence Nance, director of An Oversimplification of Her Beauty

February 10, 2014 By MsAfropolitan 1 Comment

Are you familiar with semiotext(e), the avant-garde, “punk-rock” publisher that introduced french theory to America? No? Don’t worry, most people probably are not. But they should be. Semiotext(e) publishes books that are at times bursting with self-indulgent introspection but that often push and provoke new ways of understanding the world we live in. I ask this…

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Filed Under: Pop Culture, seven Tagged With: african diaspora, An oversimplification of her beauty, film, love, popular culture, Terence Nance

7 ways that Africa is shaping globalisation

November 1, 2013 By MsAfropolitan 14 Comments

Globalisation, the compression of the world through cultural exchanges and innovation, is not a new incident to Africa (nor any other part of the world for that matter). Africa is interwoven in a millennia-long global exchange, where it has often lost out but also benefited from and shaped the course of global innovation to a far…

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Filed Under: Africa, Pop Culture, seven Tagged With: Africa, african diaspora, Afropolitan, entrepreneurs, fashion, feminism, globalisation

How to make African pie

January 14, 2013 By MsAfropolitan 12 Comments

  Is Africa hopeless, hopeful, sinking, growing, shrinking or rising? Such preoccupations repeatedly appear in analyses of Africa. Here are, for instance,  1, 2, 3, 4, 5 articles from The Guardian discussing the theme,  1, 2, 3, 4 articles from African Arguments, and from Africa Unchained and TIME to link to just a few. These ruminations are no…

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A year of African feminism

December 28, 2012 By MsAfropolitan 4 Comments

I’d like to end the year here with a short recap.  I posted 72 blogs in 2012. They featured original content about race relations, pop culture, African affairs and psychology which are four of the five key themes of MsAfropolitan. The list below consists of the most popular blogs from the fifth major theme – African…

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7 Ethiopian Women to Watch

November 12, 2012 By MsAfropolitan 45 Comments

  This is a guest blog by Elias Wondimu Ethiopia has a rich tradition of independent, intelligent women. From the Queen of Sheba to wedding gown designer Amsale Aberra, these women have helped shaped the cultural and historical trajectory of Ethiopia and beyond. The seven women on this list are members of an extraordinary generation of…

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Seven things about gorillas and Africa

October 19, 2012 By MsAfropolitan 2 Comments

Why write about gorillas and Africa? Because there is an alarm about Gorillas in the midst of Congo conflict /////// One ~  Tourists will generally shy away from unstable regions but this is not the case when it comes to regions with gorillas so I was wondering about touristic ideas of Africa and its gorillas….

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Filed Under: Africa, Decolonisation, seven, Social Criticism

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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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