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
LATEST
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Film: Black Feminism & the PolycrisisWe are proud to present the short film “Black Feminism & The Polycrisis”, made by fellows of THE NEW INSTITUTE in Hamburg, as a collaborative project.
Abosede Priscilla Ipadeola | Akwugo Emejulu | Minna Salami | Pumla Dineo Gqola | Kathryn Sophia Belle | Adenike Titilope Oladosu | Maha Marouan | Black Feminism and the Polycrisis | fellows |
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Announcement “Black Feminism and the Polycrisis”THE NEW INSTITUTE is proud to announce the launch of a pioneering program titled “Black Feminism and the Polycrisis: Configuring a Novel Solution Space Through Intersectional Methodology,” running until June 2024.
Minna Salami | Kathryn Sophia Belle | Akwugo Emejulu | Pumla Dineo Gqola | Abosede Priscilla Ipadeola | Maha Marouan | Adenike Titilope Oladosu | Black Feminism and the Polycrisis |
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Minna Salami joins the Club of RomeTHE NEW INSTITUTE Program Chair Minna Salami contributes to the Club of Rome with a distinctive lens from Black feminism and African identity, empowering their battle against global crises.