MsAfropolitan – FEMINISM. PAN-AFRICA. SOCIAL CRITICISM. DIASPORA. CULTURE.

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Other BooksThe MsAfropolitan Philosophy Book Club @ WaterstonesSensuous Knowledge My debut book is out now!Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone draws on Africa-centric, feminist-first and artistic traditions to help us rediscover inclusive and invigorating ways of experiencing the world afresh. Click on the image to read more.Recent blogpostsWhat liberating effects does writing have?August 26, 2021 By MsAfropolitan Leave a CommentI spoke to the Institute of Arts and Ideas about the below key themes in Sensuous Knowledge. I am drawn to books [Continue Reading...]Redefining, renegotiating and beautifying masculinityApril 26, 2021 By MsAfropolitan Leave a CommentProgressive contemporary discussions about masculinity typically call for a reframing of the notion. Even the project that this article belongs to has [Continue Reading...]Goldilocks Syndrome A creative nonfiction essay about decolonisationApril 23, 2021 By MsAfropolitan 1 CommentI'm delighted to have a creative nonfiction essay about decolonisation in the spring issue of World Literature Today titled Goldilock Syndrome. The [Continue Reading...]Ecofeminist values in Dalai Lama’s and Greta Thunberg’s zoom conversationApril 1, 2021 By MsAfropolitan Leave a CommentIn The Death of Nature, published in 1980, ecofeminist philosopher Carolyn Merchant wrote, with foresight and exactitude, of how natural ecosystems [Continue Reading...]Beauty and nonconformityMarch 31, 2021 By MsAfropolitan Leave a CommentThe Cooper Gallery in Scotland has launched a major five-chapter exhibition and event project titled The Ignorant Art School: Five Sit-ins towards [Continue Reading...]A review of Netflix docudrama The Social Dilemma March 28, 2021 By MsAfropolitan Leave a CommentThere are many ways to look at the word social – it can imply human characteristics (the social animal), events (social gatherings), and civic [Continue Reading...]MsAfropolitan curates Oya’s Daughters: Connecting Black African Feminisms Around the World March 18, 2021 By MsAfropolitan Leave a CommentI'm thrilled to be collaborating with the Africa Centre in New York on an event titled Oya’s Daughters: Connecting Black African Feminisms Around the [Continue Reading...]De-centring whiteness in black liberationMarch 17, 2021 By MsAfropolitan Leave a CommentMost eras end imperceptibly – and most eras also end abruptly. It may seem a contradiction that social change is both barely noticeable and drastic, [Continue Reading...]A better way to talk about oppression is as a crisis of relationship December 22, 2020 By MsAfropolitan 3 CommentsThis blog is the English version of an OpEd I wrote for EL PAÍS published 21.12.20. The original version in Spanish can be read here.Let’s begin [Continue Reading...]My message about feminism and the environment at the UNDP s Nature for Life HubOctober 1, 2020 By MsAfropolitan 2 CommentsIt was truly an honour to be invited to share a 90-second pre-recorded message at UNDP's Nature for Life Hub this week. I chose to speak, of course, [Continue Reading...]Sensuous Knowledge featured on Al JazeeraSeptember 30, 2020 By MsAfropolitan Leave a CommentEarlier this month I spoke with Malika Bilal, host of Al Jazeera's podcast The Take, about the journeys that led to my writing Sensuous Knowledge. I [Continue Reading...]Sensuous Knowledge Masterclass with Africa Writes X Arvon At HomeSeptember 29, 2020 By MsAfropolitan Leave a CommentI'm looking forward to teaching a nonfiction masterclass at Arvon At Home in collaboration with AfricaWrites. We'll be applying a rounded and [Continue Reading...]Sensuous Knowledge references and recommended readingSeptember 14, 2020 By MsAfropolitan Leave a Comment"The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of awareness of the world. That's what poetry does." So said the poet Allen Ginsberg, and he [Continue Reading...]Exousiance a series of essays on love and powerMay 5, 2020 By MsAfropolitan Leave a CommentI'm producing a series of essays on love and power for Emerge, a platform highlighting ways of thinking that are sowing the seeds of a new [Continue Reading...]Reflections of desire in lockdownApril 7, 2020 By MsAfropolitan 2 CommentsA friend called me the other day overstrung. She was worried because I'm alone in lockdown. I’m concerned and acclimatising to the new normal but I'm [Continue Reading...]Sensuous Knowledge audiobook narrated by Robin MilesApril 6, 2020 By MsAfropolitan Leave a CommentI'm thrilled to share that actor Robin Miles is the narrator of Sensuous Knowledge. Robin is a multiple-award-winning, grammy finalist whose [Continue Reading...]New questions for the world, old pleas for black feminismMarch 27, 2020 By MsAfropolitan Leave a CommentA poem by the Somali-British poet, Warsan Shire, goes, “later that nighti held an atlas in my lapran my fingers across the whole worldand [Continue Reading...]Sensuous Knowledge launching a book in a pandemicMarch 19, 2020 By MsAfropolitan 1 CommentIt is almost exactly one week since the World Health organisation declared a coronavirus pandemic. It's as though we are living in a World War. This [Continue Reading...]The missing feminist politics of the cyclicalMarch 16, 2020 By MsAfropolitan 2 CommentsIf women had power parity the notion of the cyclical would be of central importance to how we structure everything—our politics, economics, laws, [Continue Reading...]What to do when everything seems to be falling apart? Covid-19 and more.March 2, 2020 By MsAfropolitan 2 CommentsIt's increasingly clear that most people are dissatisfied with the governing of the world. Even those who can't articulate exactly what disturbs them [Continue Reading...]Blackness as a character in Queen SlimFebruary 20, 2020 By MsAfropolitan 1 CommentSteamy sex and clashing protests. Is the overlapping of a sex scene and a protest scene halfway through Melina Matsoukas’s film Queen Slim [Continue Reading...]The Mother InstinctFebruary 2, 2020 By MsAfropolitan Leave a CommentOne of the first topics that you study when you do a Masters in Gender, is the dichotomy between nature versus culture. It's an interesting place to [Continue Reading...]What quality do we need for feminist change in the future?January 11, 2020 By MsAfropolitan 2 CommentsHappy New Year! Feminism. Africa. Popular Culture. Social Criticism.Hi! I'm Minna Salami, I'm a Nigerian-Finnish and Swedish writer, 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 200 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 bioView My Blog PostsFollow UsStay tunedSubscribe to get new updates directly to your inbox. 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