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Feminist Freedom

An African Vision
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In Feminist Freedom, Minna Salami asks: What happens when we consider Africa through a feminist lens-and feminism through an African one? Salami explores these questions through an unflinching and clear-sighted African feminist vision. Drawing on African knowledge systems, feminist thought, and postcolonial history, she reveals the matrix of power, identity, patriarchy, and imagination that animates everyday life. She tackles the hardest challenges to the African feminist movement-why feminism matters in Africa, how it relates to Black liberation and global feminism, whether "African feminist" is itself a contradiction-and confronts the backlash that both sparked and stalled its progress. Patriarchy and culture, she shows, can smother feminist fire-but language, history, and soul can reignite it. Braiding social criticism with personal storytelling, Feminist Freedom invites readers to see our past, present, and future from the continent outward-and to imagine new horizons of liberation.
Minna Salami is a writer, social critic and thought leader whose work is known for weaving together feminism, philosophy, and political thought. She is an Open Society Foundation Ideas Workshop fellow, and the author of Sensuous Knowledge. She is creative director of the Lovie award-winning film, Black Feminism and the Polycrisis, based on a program she chaired, and the author of Kaleido on Substack.
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