Minna Salami

Sensuous Knowledge (eBook, ePUB)

A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Sensuous Knowledge is a collection of thought-provoking essays that applies an Africa-centered feminist sensibility to issues of racism and sexism. In this riveting meditation, Minna Salami, the creator of the internationally popular, multiple award-winning blog MsAfropolitan, challenges our illusions about oppression and liberation and dares women to embrace their power. What does it mean to be oppressed? What does it mean to be liberated? Why do women choose to follow authority even when they can be autonomous? What is the cost of compromising one's true self? What narratives particularly subjugate women and people of African heritage? What kind of narrative can heal and empower? As she considers these questions, Salami offers fresh insights on key cultural issues that impact women's lives, including power, beauty, and knowledge. She also examines larger subjects, such as Afrofuturism, radical Black feminism, and gender politics, all with a historical outlook that is also future oriented. Combining a storyteller's narrative playfulness and a social critic's intellectual rigor, Salami draws upon a range of traditions and ideologies, feminist theory, popular culture-including insights from Ms. Lauryn Hill, Beyoncé, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, and others-science, philosophy, African myths and origin stories, and her own bold personal narrative to establish a language for change and self-liberation. Sensuous Knowledge inspires reflection and challenges us to formulate our own views. Using ancestral knowledge to steer us toward freedom, Salami reveals the ways that women have protested over the years in large and small ways-models that inspire and empower us to define our own sense of womanhood today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062877093
• Artikelnr.: 57103917

Autorenporträt

Minna Salami is Nigerian, Finnish, and Swedish author, blogger, and social critic, and international keynote speaker. She is the founder of the multiple award-winning blog, MsAfropolitan, which connects feminism with critical reflections on contemporary culture from an Africa-centered perspective. Listed by Elle Magazine as one of twelve women changing the world alongside Angelina Jolie and Michelle Obama, Minna has presented talks on feminism, liberation, decolonization, sexuality, African Studies, and popular culture to audiences at the European Parliament, the Oxford Union, Yale University, TEDx, The Singularity University at NASA, and UN Women. She is a contributor to The Guardian, Al Jazeera, and the Royal Society of the Arts, and a columnist for the Guardian Nigeria. She lives in London.