Can Feminism Be African? With Minna Salami

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🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Our guest today is Minna Salami, the feminist author, social critic and currently Program Chair at The New Institute. Her first book was Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone, and her writing can be found in the Guardian, Project Syndicate, Al Jazeera, and The Philosopher, and many others. In her new book, Salami explores the question Can Feminism Be African?. Drawing from feminist thought, postcolonial theory, historical insights, and African knowledge systems, Salami combines personal reflection with cultural criticism to offer a vivid and cohesive discussion about power, identity, patriarchy, imagination, and the human condition. Joining Salami to discuss the book is Hannah Dawson, historian of ideas at King’s College London and editor of The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing. If you'd like to become a Member and get access to all our full conversations, plus all of our Members-only content, just visit intelligencesquared.com/membership to find out more. For £4.99 per month you'll also receive: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared episodes, wherever you get your podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series - 15% discount on livestreams and in-person tickets for all Intelligence Squared events ... Or Subscribe on Apple for £4.99: - Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared podcasts - Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series … Already a subscriber? Thank you for supporting our mission to foster honest debate and compelling conversations! Visit intelligencesquared.com to explore all your benefits including ad-free podcasts, exclusive bonus content and early access. … Subscribe to our newsletter here to hear about our latest events, discounts and much more. https://www.intelligencesquared.com/newsletter-signup/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.9	Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where Great Minds meet. I'm producer Mia Serenti. I guest today is Mina Salami, the feminist author,
0:41.3	social critic and current programme chair at the new institute. Her first book was sensuous
0:47.1	knowledge, a black feminist approach for everyone, and her writing can be found in the Guardian,
0:52.7	Project Syndica, Al Jazeera and the philosopher, among many others.
0:56.9	In her new book, Salami explores the question, can feminism be African?
1:01.6	Drawing from feminist thought, post-colonial theory, historical insights and African knowledge systems,
1:07.9	Salami combines personal reflection with cultural criticism to offer a vivid and
1:12.9	cohesive discussion about power, identity, patriarchy, imagination and the human condition.
1:20.7	Joining Salami to discuss the book is Hannah Dawson, historian of ideas and editor of the Penguin
1:26.4	Book of Feminist Writing.
1:28.1	Let's join Hannah now with more.
1:31.7	Hello and welcome to Intelligence Squared.
1:35.7	I'm Hannah Dawson and I'm extremely glad to be joined today on the podcast by Mina Salami.
1:42.9	Mina is research chair and senior fellow at the new institute in Hamburg, Germany.
1:50.3	She is a writer, social critic and public intellectual, a renowned speaker who speaks
1:55.4	around the world and has spoken at a number of extremely august institutions, the UN, the EU, the Oxford Union,
2:04.2	the Cambridge Union, Yale University and NASA. She's published widely, been contributor to various
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