BIO
Minna is a Nigerian-Finnish and Swedish feminist author and social critic. Her research interests include the politics of knowledge production, the progression of feminist theory, and contemporary African thought. Her debut book, Sensuous Knowledge, has been translated into multiple languages, and she is currently writing a polemical book about feminism in relation to Africa. She has drawn over a million readers to her multiple award-winning blog MsAfropolitan. Minna has presented talks at prominent institutions, including the UN, the Oxford Union, the Cambridge Union, Yale University, and the Singularity University at NASA. She has consulted governments on race and gender equality and has curated events at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Minna sits on the council of the Royal Institute of Philosophy and the boards of the African Feminist Initiative at Pennsylvania State University, the Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of the Sahel, and the Emerge network, and is an associate with Perspectiva.
At THE NEW INSTITUTE, after serving as a program chair for Black Feminism and The Polycrisis, Minna is now a senior fellow for the Academic Year 2024/25.
PUBLICATIONS
Can Feminism be African? (forthcoming)
Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone, 2020
On Identity Erotics: A Metamodern Alternative to ‘Identity Politics’
in: Dispatches from a Time Between Worlds: Crisis and Emergence in Metamodernity (ed. by Jonathan Rowson and Layman Pascal), 2021
Sophie Bosede Oluwole
in: The Philosopher Queens (ed. by Rebecca Buxton and Lisa Whiting), 2020
30-Second Feminism: 50 key ideas, events, and protests, each explained in half a minute
(several authors, ed. by Jess McCabe), 2019
