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An African utopia in Ethiopia – On the need for imaginative ideas

July 19, 2016 By Minna Salami 2 Comments

In April this year, I was honoured to give a keynote talk at the jesuit university, Xavier University. I’m sharing a video and transcript from the talk below. On one end, the talk’s intention is to inform about Awra Amba, a utopian village in Ethiopia, but at its core it is about the need for imaginative…

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Filed Under: Africa, Decolonisation, feminism Tagged With: Awra Amba, Ideas

Awra Amba, an Ethiopian village where gender equality is real

May 30, 2014 By Minna Salami 10 Comments

If I were an alien visiting our planet this week I’d think, “Whoa, how’s that for a mess, one half of the species trying to annihilate the other half!” We on earth don’t see it that way ourselves; or we would be in revolution against misogynist warfare. Yet an eye that has not been conditioned to normalise the…

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Filed Under: feminism Tagged With: Africa, African women, African Women's Decade, Awra Amba, Ethiopia, gender, Life, Spirituality, Young Women, Zumra Nuru

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