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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

Sex for women and men

August 9, 2017 By MsAfropolitan 10 Comments

sex for women: two days before date with lover-to-be: skip breakfast. remove all evidence of hair on legs, armpits, labia, around anus, inside nose, moustache, toes, arms; wherever there’s a follicle, uproot its produce. with the exception of the follicles on your head of course. those follicles are okay, massage them, oil them, style their produce. go to…

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Filed Under: feminism Tagged With: feminism, gallery, sex, sexuality

The African Femme Fatale

December 21, 2013 By MsAfropolitan 18 Comments

As the year comes to an end, I thought that I would like my last post of the year to be about something exciting, a feminine energy we could do well channeling more of in 2014. Scrolling through old posts and comments, I recognised an energy brewing, one not yet defined but one which can…

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Filed Under: Africa, feminism, Pop Culture Tagged With: Africa, African feminism, African women, femme fatale, gender, identity, Life, sex, Spirituality

Interview with Iheoma Obibi, founder of Nigeria’s first online sex shop

December 15, 2013 By MsAfropolitan 11 Comments

Welcome back to my interview series! Over the past years I’ve interviewed inspiring women of African heritage highlighting their work and observations on life. This time around, I’m especially excited to introduce readers to Iheoma Obibi, an African feminist writer, human rights activist and more recently the creative director and business owner of Intimate Pleasures Desires…

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Filed Under: Interviews Tagged With: African feminism, African women, sex, sexuality, women's issues

The objectification of men

November 14, 2013 By MsAfropolitan 3 Comments

I am intrigued, despite my previous post about how African women’s art is feminist, by how seldom women artists (from Africa but also elsewhere) objectify the male body. We lose out from this disengagement with the male as object. Whether it is fine or digital art, photography or sculpture, we are culturally deprived of an artistic female…

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Filed Under: feminism, Pop Culture, Social Criticism Tagged With: Africa, art, gallery, gender, masculinity, sex, women

What makes African women’s art feminist?

November 10, 2013 By MsAfropolitan 6 Comments

It has been said that artistry in Africa is an intrinsic part of life rather than a commercial or careerist enterprise. I’d say that this notion is not only applicable to African art, all across the world art has explored the sensitivities of life and the social environment. However, it is in this process of examining life…

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Filed Under: feminism, Pop Culture Tagged With: African feminism, African women, art, gender, Nigeria, sex, Spirituality

Polygamy in Africa has little to do with sex

September 26, 2013 By MsAfropolitan 39 Comments

At its core polygamy is natural because men biologically need to spread their seed and it is hard for them to commit to one woman. Right? Wrong. But this argument is one commonly given to explain the tradition. For instance, Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, wrote in his autobiography that: “However unconventional and unsatisfactory this…

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Filed Under: Africa, feminism, Social Criticism Tagged With: Africa, African feminism, African women, gender, sex, women's issues

We need to eroticise society

September 5, 2013 By MsAfropolitan 12 Comments

I know what you’re thinking: What do I mean by “eroticise” society and why on earth should we do that? Surely we are obsessed with sex as it is! Well, yes, sex is everywhere but Eros, i.e. Erotic love, isn’t. Our sexual culture is either prudish or pornographic. On one end, we are surrounded by explicit…

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What makes a clitoris dangerous?

August 17, 2013 By MsAfropolitan 71 Comments

  Estimates suggest that out of the 140 million people in the world whose clitorises have been removed via Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), 100 million are African. Three million African girls and women are at risk of undergoing the procedure annually. The countries with the highest rates are Sudan and Somalia, which unsurprisingly are two out of…

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Filed Under: Africa, feminism Tagged With: Africa, African feminism, African Women's Decade, female genital mutilation, FGM, gallery, sex, women's issues

Valentine’s Day Give-Away – My free poetry e-book

February 14, 2013 By MsAfropolitan 11 Comments

  I don’t consider myself a poet but that’s an odd thing to announce given that I am next going to offer you to download cache, my poetry book. And for free too in the spirit of Valentine’s day and love! Poetry is a form of writing that I’m compelled to engage in when I’m…

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Filed Under: Social Criticism Tagged With: Africa, African feminism, identity, Life, Nigeria, Religion, sex, Spirituality

On Vagina by Naomi Wolf and the reviews that followed

October 5, 2012 By MsAfropolitan 5 Comments

The release of Naomi Wolf’s “Vagina: A New Biography” was met with scathing criticisms from feminists like Laurie Penny, Ariel Levy and Zoe Heller. These influential writers all bring up some valid arguments about problematic ideas presented in the book. Vagina is indeed a book that in many ways feels unfinished and often naïve. It…

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Filed Under: feminism, Pop Culture, Social Criticism Tagged With: African feminism, gender, sex, Spirituality

Is it unAfrican to be gay? The Nigerian case

December 23, 2011 By MsAfropolitan 15 Comments

Since 1960 Nigeria has had no more than eleven years of unbroken civilian rule. Out of those, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) now led by Goodluck Jonathan has held a tight grip on power whilst barely contributing to any growth. Shell has just admitted that thousands of barrels of oil have spilt in the Bonga oil leak, the worst…

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Filed Under: Africa, feminism, Social Criticism Tagged With: Africa, African feminism, Afrocentric, gender, Islam, lesbian, Life, Nigeria, Religion, sex, Spirituality, stereotypes

Why men love feminists

October 19, 2011 By MsAfropolitan 16 Comments

Contrary to popular belief many feminists have active, and even pleasant love lives. Before I continue let me clarify, and oversimplify (terribly) for purposes of this commentary, by saying that there are two types of feminists. It’s oversimplifying by the way, because we live in an age of individual feminisms rather than theory-centered doctrine. And…

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Filed Under: feminism, Social Criticism Tagged With: gender, identity, Life, sex, stereotypes

Rihanna gets it right with Man Down

June 4, 2011 By MsAfropolitan 13 Comments

I am feeling Rihanna’s new song ‘Man Down’ and the accompanying video. The actual song makes me feel like dirty dancing with a pleasant male specimen with the wind and sunshine cocooning us from the rest of the world. YUP! The video is not similarly inciting. Rihanna acts the role of a woman who follows up…

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Fela in Lagos, reflections and ruminations

April 22, 2011 By MsAfropolitan 9 Comments

I don’t know what to make of the Finnish elections last weekend, where the nationalist True Finns party won 39 seats of a 200-seat parliament. The Nigerian elections, which have led to violent clashes in Northern Nigeria where hundreds of people have now died, sadden me even more so. To make sense of things, I…

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Filed Under: feminism, Pop Culture Tagged With: Africa, African women, Afrocentric, Afropolitan, beauty ideals, celebrities, decolonisation, fashion, Life, sex, Spirituality, style icons

Is masculinity in crisis?

April 4, 2011 By MsAfropolitan 14 Comments

Recently, two elderly men came into the same crowded train carriage as me. One had a walking stick so the other assisted him on to the train and on to the seat which I stood up to offer. I’d guess the men were in their early 80s but I’m not good at predicting the ages…

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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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