By Minna Salami AbstractAfrican feminist traditions are marked by resistance to the status quo. African futurism typically focuses on imagining potential transformations. The merging of the two fields of thought is both urgent and generative.We are already in the future. I am writing these words in a moment that is my present but will be…
Author: Minna Salami
Minna Salami’s writing and research focus on the inner and external worlds of women in the 21st century. She is the author of the internationally acclaimed book, Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone, a collection of essays exploring universal ideas with an Africa-centred, decolonial, and feminist perspective, which has been translated into several languages. She is co-director of the feminist movement, Activate, and a Senior Research Associate at Perspectiva.
She sits on the advisory board of the African Feminist Initiative at ennsylvania State University and the editorial board of the Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of the Sahel, as well as the Emerge platform. Her blog, MsAfropolitan, has won several awards.