What does it mean to know? This lecture explores the intersections between knowledge, feminism, analysis, critique, and imagination within contemporary African-European-Afropolitan discourse. Through a multidimensional lens, the lecture delves into the revelations that feminist perspectives, critical inquiry, and visionary imagination expose across diverse cultural landscapes and intellectual traditions. Analysing power, knowledge, and language, the lecture offers a rigorous feminist critique of dominant narratives and epistemic hierarchies within African-European-Afropolitan thought. It also plants seeds for an alternate, nondualist political philosophy to flourish amidst the dominant europatriarchal social imagination. By exploring the converging and diverging brocades of feminist analysis, critique, and imagination, the lecture invites participants to engage with the complexities of contemporary knowledge production, challenging accepted methodologies and fostering transformative dialogue across cultural, geographical, and disciplinary boundaries: A kaleidoscopic encounter.
About Minna Salami
Minna Salami is a Nigerian-Finnish and Swedish feminist author, social critic and Program Chair at THE NEW INSTITUTE. She is the author of Can Feminism Be African? (forthcoming William Collins) and Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone (Bloomsbury 2020). She is a co-author of the children’s book The Power Book: What is it, Who Has it, and Why? (Quarto, 2019). Her books and essays are translated into German, Spanish, Finnish, Swedish, Portuguese, Mandarin, and Catalan. Minna has drawn over a million readers to her award-winning blog, MsAfropolitan.com. Her writing can be found in the Guardian, Project Syndicate, Al Jazeera, and The Philosopher, among others. She has consulted governments on gender and racial equality and speaks at institutions such as the Institute of Arts and Ideas, UN, EU, Oxford Union, Cambridge Union, Yale University, and the Singularity University at NASA. Minna is a Full Member of the Club of Rome and sits on the council of The Royal Institute of Philosophy. She is a board member of The African Feminist Initiative at Pennsylvania State University and the Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of the Sahel. She is a BMW Foundation Responsible Leader, and has served as chair for the House of Beautiful Business. She is part of the decision-making group of the Visionaries Programme, a judge for the One World Media Awards, and a nominator for the Prince Claus Foundation and the Princess of Asturias Foundation.