Amina Mama is a Nigerian/British feminist researcher, academic & consultant whose professional career spans European, African and U.S. institutions. She has dedicated much of her time to creating institutional spaces for strengthening radical intellectual work, teaching, research and publication, and film. Her major publications include Beyond the Masks: Race, Gender and Subjectivity (Routledge 1995), co-edited…
Author: Amina Mama
Amina Mama is a Nigerian/British feminist researcher, academic & consultant whose professional career spans European, African and U.S. institutions. She has dedicated much of her time to creating institutional spaces for strengthening radical intellectual work, teaching, research and publication, and film. Her major publications include Beyond the Masks: Race, Gender and Subjectivity (Routledge 1995), co-edited Engendering African Social Sciences (CODESRIA 1997) and extensive contributions to peer-reviewed journals and edited collections. She collaborated in the production of two documentary films, The Witches of Gambaga (Fadoa Films 2010), and The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo (Executive Producer Fadoa films 2014). Her areas of expertise include feminist movements, methodology, pedagogy, political consciousness, political and organizational development, critical policy studies, higher education, militarism. She is Founding Editor of Feminist Africa, and currently convenes the newly created Editors-in-Chief Collective.
Feminist Africa Issue 5. 2005: Sexual Cultures
Welcome to Feminist Africa’s thematic focus on sexualities. This issue provides us with the opportunity to continue some of the debates initiated by Patricia MacFadden, Charmaine Pereira and Sylvia Tamale in an earlier issue (see Feminist Africa 2). In keeping with Feminist Africa’s intellectual development agenda, the present issue also provides a platform for new…
Feminist Africa Issue 4. 2005: Women Mobilised
This issue of Feminist Africa 4: Women Mobilised presents new theorisations of postcolonial gender politics. The contributors document and critically reflect on contemporary gender struggles in a number of key arenas. Needless to say, for every example that is discussed in the following pages, many more have been omitted, about which a few points are…
Feminist Africa Issue 3. 2004: National Politricks
Feminist Africa 3 critically explores a continental landscape largely driven by the still heavily masculine imperatives of nation-statehood. Within this paradigm, Africa has accumulated four decades of post-colonial political experience, and three decades of gender equality activism. Contemporary feminist scholarship on African politics faces the task of interrogating an increasingly tricky landscape. On the one…
The Power of Feminist Pan-African Intellect
By Amina Mama Keep expanding your horizon, decolonise your mind, and cross over borders. (Kochiyama, 1996) Introduction Fifteen years since the launch of the first issue on Intellectual Politics in 2002, this special editorial marks the end of the first stage in Feminist Africa’s life. The shared founding principle behind FA is the understanding that…
Editorial
The launch of Feminist Africa marks a critical moment in the continental history of gender politics. Three decades after the development industry first began to respond to the international resurgence of women’s movements, African gender politics have become increasingly complex and contradictory. Feminism, as a movement that is both global and local, leaves little untouched….
Feminist Africa Issue 1. 2002: Intellectual Politics
Feminist Africa begins with a focus on “Intellectual Politics”, so that we can begin by bringing critical feminist perspectives to bear on the institutional terrain that is formally responsible for African knowledge production, namely our institutions of higher learning. Higher education and research organisations in Africa have proved so resistant to feminist intellectual work that…