Speaker profile
Minna has spoken at hundreds of events across Europe, Africa, the Americas, Asia, and the Middle East, at universities, festivals, policy forums, and cultural institutions. She has delivered keynotes and lectures at leading universities, cultural institutions, and international platforms worldwide, including the United Nations, the European Union, the Oxford Union, the Cambridge Union, Yale University, Google, and the Singularity University at NASA.
Minna has appeared as a commentator on BBC, Sky, Al Jazeera, and Channel 4, and has engaged in public conversations with thinkers such as Bayo Akomolafe, Paul Gilroy and Nawal El Saadawi. She has also debated controversial figures like Curtis Yarvin and Michael Gove.
At the core of her talks and public appearances, is the commitment to both inspire and expand audience knowledge about the diverse topics on which she speaks.
Recent Keynotes:
Countering Collapse with Feminist Thought Leadership
“Prepare for the worst” – this is the message of our times. That we are teetering on the brink of collapse, ecological, economic, political, cultural, spiritual. That confusion and fatigue are pervasive: and authoritarianism, populism, and oligarchy the new reality. In such times, meaningful social transformation is undeniably more elusive than ever. Yet, is there space for change? Can new political philosophies, new epistemologies, and revitalised imaginaries provide vision? These questions inform Minna’s talk, which explores how African feminism offers a critical and emancipatory language for understanding and reimagining the narratives that define our world.
Feminism and Non-Dualism
Across many contemplative traditions, non-duality names a way of understanding the world that refuses the fiction of separation. It reminds us that self and world, inner life and social reality, mind and body are not oppositional but deeply entangled.
Less often recognised is that non-dualism is also a key idea in the feminist tradition. Feminist traditions have long challenged the hierarchical binaries that underpin power: male and female, reason and emotion, culture and nature, human and non-human. These divisions are not neutral. They are historical narratives that justify hierarchy, violence, and exclusion. From a feminist perspective, non-dualism becomes a framework truth, relationality, and attention to lived experience.
The urgency of this perspective is clear in the present moment. We are living through overlapping crises that can feel relentless: the return of authoritarian politics, mass violence, public reckonings with hidden systems of sexual power and impunity, alongside ecological emergency. These issues are connected by a worldview that fragments reality and separates us from the world we inhabit.
This talk brings together the political and spiritual meanings of non-duality by exploring what happens when we observe that politics and spirituality are also not separate.
Drawing on feminist philosophy, contemporary cultural and political examples, and contemplative insights, the talk argues that moving beyond either/or thinking is not a retreat from politics but a deepening of it: a shift toward relational power, epistemic clarity, and more integrated ways of knowing, living, and acting in a time of profound uncertainty and crisis.
Weaving Worlds Kaleidoscopically
How can we reimagine knowledge in a time of ecological and epistemic crisis — knowledge that feels, that listens, that expands like roots in the soil and clarifies like water through the body?
This talk explores how dominant ways of knowing can be challenged through more plural, sensuous, and feminist paradigms of thought.
Rooted in non-dualist feminism, African and postcolonial thought, the talk introduces what I call The Kaleidoscopic Method: a way of thinking that embraces multiplicity and interconnectedness, and that includes, but is not confined to, the scientific method. Here, knowledge is not treated as a fixed destination, but as a patterned unfolding like the turn of a kaleidoscope.
The Language of the Feminist Body
The Language of the Feminist Body explores the body as a site of knowledge and resistance. This talk delves into how patriarchal systems have sought to dominate both bodies and the earth, severing their inherent connection to Nature and silencing alternative ways of knowing. Reclaiming the body as a language, it considers diverse, embodied experiences while challenging the dualisms that separate mind from body and humanity from nature. Probing into the limitations and possibilities of language, it invites us to imagine a future where language, the body and earth are no longer sites of exploitation but sources of selfhood, expression and transformation.
From Andro-Africanism to Europatriarchy: Decoding Masculine Power
Feminism has long fought patriarchy in its obvious and concrete forms — laws, media, and tradition. But in the 21st century, patriarchy has taken refuge in new forms of authoritarianism and populism, and the algorithms, popular narratives, and social imaginaries that correspond to these ideologies. Using the frameworks of Andro-Africanism and Europatriarchy, this lecture explores how masculine culture continues to shape beliefs and attitudes in both direct and indirect ways. By uncovering these new hiding places, we can better understand how patriarchal power operates today and why it’s crucial for feminism to decode and resist these hidden forces.
Testimonials
“Minna’s talk was mesmerising — deeply personal yet expansive, intellectually rigorous yet lyrical.”
Laura Grillo, Georgetown University
“One of the most arresting voices speaking to our times.”
Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué, University of Wisconsin–Madison
“An inspiring voice for diverse feminism in the 21st century.”
Esmeralda de Rethy, Princess of Belgium
“Inspiring, challenging, empathetic, courageous and unique.”
Daniela Pichler, European Women’s Lobby
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