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name: Minna Salami
about: Minna Salami is an author, blogger, social critic and international keynote speaker, and the founder of the multiple award-winning blog, MsAfropolitan, which connects feminism with critical reflections on contemporary culture from an Africa-centred 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, decolonisation, sexuality, African Studies and popular culture to audiences at the European Parliament, the Oxford Union, Yale University, TEDx, The Singularity University at NASA and UNWomen among others. She is a contributor to The Guardian, Al Jazeera and the Royal Society of the Arts, and a columnist for the Guardian N Minna Salami is an author, blogger, social critic and international keynote speaker, and the founder of the multiple award-winning blog, MsAfropolitan, which connects feminism with critical reflections on contemporary culture from an Africa-centred 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, decolonisation, sexuality, African Studies and popular culture to audiences at the European Parliament, the Oxford Union, Yale University, TEDx, The Singularity University at NASA and UNWomen among others. She is a contributor to The Guardian, Al Jazeera and the Royal Society of the Arts, and a columnist for the Guardian Nigeria. Minna Salami was born in 1978 to a Nigerian father and a Finnish mother. Leaving Nigeria in her early teens, she has since lived in Sweden, Spain, New York and London, where she now resides.She was awarded a distinction for her MA thesis in Gender Studies from SOAS University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Lund. Her debut book, SENSUOUS KNOWLEDGE, is forthcoming in Spring 2020. ...more